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arborio rice, desserts, layered pudding, mastic gum, middle easern, muhallabia, orange, orange pudding, orange rose water, pudding, rice pudding, مهلبية بالبرتقال, ارز بالحليب
Not so different from the western-style rice pudding, but this one has the orange water and mastic gum for flavor and is finished with a creamy layer of orange pudding topped with pistachio. These are normally found in an Arabic or Pakistani food store here in the US.
This middle eastern pudding is a favorite both summer and winter, especially liked by children and always served to invalids.
You can use any short grain rice, I used Arborio rice. Mix rice with water first and let cooked until softened, this way the rice will give all starch it need to thicken the milk pudding without adding any eggs or corn starch.
What make this a middle eastern favourite is the flavor of orange water, the mastic gum, and some people like to add also rose-water, but all it depends on what’s your taste bud like. You can use vanilla to flavour the rice pudding or cinnamon, or any flavour you like….
Also I like to add more cream to the the milk, one brand that I always use is the Nestle media creme, you can find it in a local walmart store, may be the Mexican section.
Creamy Rice and Orange Pudding
1\2 cup Arborio rice
1 3\4 cup water
3 cup milk
1\3 teaspoon mastic gum
1 tablespoon orange water
1\4 cup granulated sugar
1 Nestle table cream
for the orange pudding
1 1\2 cup fresh orange juice
1\4 cup sugar
1 1\2 tablespoon corn starch
1 teaspoon orange water
Rinse the rice under cold water and put it in a sauce pan. Add the water and place it over a medium heat, bring to boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 15 -20 min or until the rice has absorbed all the water and become very soft.
Pour in the milk , increase the heat to medium and bring back to boil, stirring occasionally. Cook for 5 min, then lower the heat and cook for another 10-15 min. Stirring the mixture so that the rice does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
Add in the sugar and cook for a few more minutes, still stirring. Add the orange water, the mastic, and stir for another minute, finally add the cream stir for 2-3 minutes until thickened. It’s important to keep stirring while simmering to insure it will thicken.
If the pudding not thickened (which is week chance this will happen if you stirred it well), just in a separate cup add 1 tablespoon corn starch to 3 tablespoon cold milk, stir it to dissolve the starch in the milk then add it gradually with continuous stirring to the rice pudding. stir well until thickening.
Take off the heat and pour into individual cups. Prepare the orange pudding.
In a sauce pan, add the orange juice the corn starch and sugar, stir well until the starch dissolved, put on medium heat, keep stirring until boil. Lower the heat and simmer, keep stirring, cook for 5-10 minutes until begin to thicken, add the orange rose-water, stir for more 2-3 minutes, then take it off.
Fati from Fai’s Recipes have tagged me over questions about my self:
Describe yourself in 7 words…
Food Passionate specially creamy desserts
Dreamer
Love reading romance novels in arabic and english
Like soft music
Not very talkative or social personality, but I’m a very good listener
Like the smell of fresh laundry
Palestinian Muslim
What keeps you up at night?
well, lots of things; some times my kids homework, commenting to other foodies, working on a new post…., and yes, finishing the last couple of chapter on a very interesting novel.
Who would you like to be?
Me and only me. My dreams go now to finish my graduate degree, and then decide which dreams will fit better for me to wear it…
What are you wearing now?
I just dropped the kids to school, so definitely my jeans….
What scares you?
Snakes, I always have bad dreams of them…don’t know why? any suggestions?
What are the best and worst things about blogging?
The best is meeting and sharing the love with YOU, FOODIES.
The worst is THE TIME, it really killing me…
What is the last website you looked at?
Fati’s recipe to copy the questions for the tagging.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
MY over sensitivity, sometimes it puts me in troubles…
Slankets, yes or no?
Do you mean the sleeved blanket or not…?! sorry, didn’t understand it…
Tell us something about the person who tagged you…
Fati, Another Food Passionate. I like to read her blog; she’s creative (can quickly adapt with the failed recipes and make a successful meal), Honest with the results, she makes a very delicious esh elbulbul and many many middle eastern recipes.
As for the rules, I have to pass the questions to another foodies, whose not tagged yet. So I would like to pass it to some of the ffodies I like to follow :
Nami @ Just One Cookbook
Manu @ Manus Menu
Ann @ Sumptuous Spoonfuls
Jammi Ann @ A Dash of Domestic
Joumana @ Taste of Beirut
Good Cooks 
trialsinfood said:
looks delicious!
Good Cooks said:
Thank you so much….
Sawsan@ Chef in disguise said:
I have a post about this same recipe coming up 🙂 the only difference is that we don’t put rice in the milk layer. I think I will have to try it your way next time. The kids love rice pudding so adding it to the recipe makes perfect sense
Good Cooks said:
Mmm I bet it will be yummy as all your recipes Sonson, can’t wait for it. Sawsan I like to put the rice in it because sometimes I like to have it as quick breakfast, plus it’s very freshing and will make you full of energy hahaha.
Thank you for the kind words you said on the other one, inshaa allah will meet and talk.
fati's recipes said:
Samah, I enjoyed every one of your answers… and yes, a slanket is one of those body blankets. 🙂 I love the idea of this recipe. I was told about it by a friend last year, but I can’t remember it’s name in Arabic (there I go again asking you what is it…?) It’s got a different name to ruz bil haleeb because of the orange pudding on top 🙂
Anyway, I also want to say that I like the idea of cooking the rice first. My mum puts in a cornstarch slurry to make it thick, maybe I can convince her to try it this way so we can test the difference in flavour. 🙂 Beautiful and helpful post as always! 🙂
P.S. I know about that time consuming thing (it takes so long to put up a good post!)
Good Cooks said:
Oh, thank you Fati…
Actually you can say it’s two recipes in on, because the rice pudding normally done alone and it’s known as roz bil halleeb, and the other one, the orange is known as muhalabiet albortoqalمهلبية بالبرتقال .
heesbees tajweed said:
Oh! Before I came to check your comment, I suddenly remembered the name I know for this, it is baaloozeeya…. But mum said it doesn’t have the rice in it, just the milk and cornstarch 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Thank you so much for stopping by, yes ithere is a version that named Balloza thats a ground rice and milk pudding.
Ann from Sumptuous Spoonfuls said:
That pudding is absolutely gorgeous! What amazing photography too … and thank you for tagging me. What a fun game! Yes, I will answer and tag some more bloggers. 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Thank you Ann, you are so welcome. can’t wait to read your’s 🙂
balvinder ( Neetu) said:
Rice pudding is also one of my favourite. But I like your idea of layering it with orange pudding. I would certainly love to try this. By Nestle cream you mean evaporated milk? What is mastic gum? Can I do without this if using arborio rice?
Good Cooks said:
Thank you so much for dropping by…
The Nestle creme you can see it at the picture above. No it’s not evaporated milk it’s kind of thick cream usually used for sweets, it’s thicker than the heavy whipping creme, but it can be replaced with it. Usually I buy it from Walmart super market at Hispanic section.
The mastic gum is a middle eastern spice usually used in the desserts and also in flavouring the middle eastern white cheese, in the US you can find it at a middle eastern or pakistani indaian stores. If you can’t find it just use the vanilla flavouring.
Nami | Just One Cookbook said:
Hi Samah! So sorry for coming here late. How are you doing? I’ve never had rice pudding before and after blogging I learned there are so many rice pudding recipes that I became to curious. We eat rice everyday but somehow it’s not very common dessert in Japan. I love your lively colorful photo! Totally got energy from it (but going to sleep soon haha).
Thanks for the tagging game! I loved reading your answers. Don’t hate me but I actually announced in FAQ page that I will no longer do the game… so forgive me, Samah! But I’ll be happy we get to know you each other. 🙂 OH! I didn’t know what slanket was when I read it first in one blog, then after that I learned that I actually own one! It’s called Snuggies in the US. Check it out on Google. 😉
Good Cooks said:
Thank you Nami for the kind words, yes it’s common and delicious rice pudding, you have to try it though, you will love it.
It’s ok, don’t worry about the tagging :), thank you for stopping by….
Caroline said:
Well this is just fantastic! Looks delicious. Great idea to layer with orange pudding. mmm!
Good Cooks said:
Thank you Caroline, you are so welcome…
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Paula @ Spoons n Spades said:
This looks so delicious, rice pudding is one of my favourites!
Good Cooks said:
Me too…Thanks for stopping by…
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