Sweet
Time for sutlijaš
Rice in milk, stirred with patience and dusted with cinnamon. The gentlest dessert in this collection and the hardest to get wrong.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 45 min
- Total
- 50 min
- Fasting
- Not suitable
Ingredients 5 ingredients
Method
- Put the milk, water and rice into a heavy-bottomed pot. The heavy bottom is not a detail — in a thin pot the pudding scorches before the rice is done.
- Cook over a low heat, stirring constantly and scraping the base with a wooden spoon. The rice must soften completely; this takes about 30–35 minutes.
- When the rice is cooked, add the sugar and carry on for another ten minutes or so until it reaches the thickness you want.
- Do not let it get too thick. Sutlijaš sets as it cools and then loses liquid — thick in the pot means dry in the bowl.
- Pour into bowls and leave to cool. Dust with ground cinnamon before serving.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Whole milk
- Coconut or oat milk makes it suitable for fasting — a different flavour, but the texture holds.
- Sugar
- Honey, stirred in off the heat.
- Cinnamon
- Grated lemon zest, or a pinch of ground clove.
