Arroz con Leche

Name: Arroz con Leche
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 cup rice (short or long grain, rinsed); 2 cup water; 1 unit cinnamon (stick, plus ground for serving); 1 unit lime (a wide strip of peel, no pith); ¼ tsp salt; 2 cup milk (whole); ¾ cup sweetened condensed milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract

Dessert · Latin American & Caribbean · American

8 ingredients · 50 minutes · 2 servings

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Variations

Arroz con Leche with RaisinsAn ingredient branch from the authored reference, with its selected additions included in the quantities and method.View recipe →

867kcal23.5g protein18.7g fat150.4g carbs~$1.59/ serving*

Contains dairy

Restrictions

ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol · check

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

1 cup	rice (short or long grain, rinsed)
2 cup	water
1 unit	cinnamon (stick, plus ground for serving)
1 unit	lime (a wide strip of peel, no pith)
¼ tsp	salt
2 cup	milk (whole)
¾ cup	sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp	vanilla extract

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

½ cup	raisins (the eternal debate, in for the last 10)
½ cup	evaporated milk (a splash, for the tres-leches-leaning tables)

Steps

Simmer15 min
rice + water + cinnamon stick + lime peel + salt, lid ajar
until the water is absorbed and the rice is tender — the aromatics infuse the grain itself in this stage, which is why they enter now and not with the milk; the lime peel is the Latin signature that surprises the rice-pudding audience and converts most of it
Simmer20 min
milk + condensed milk in, medium-low, stirred often
the milks into the cooked rice at a gentle bubble, stirred with increasing honesty as it thickens — the starch releasing into the milk is what makes the pudding, and the pot floor is where it wants to catch; done when a spoon dragged through leaves a slow-closing path, which is looser than the final texture because the cooling thickens it one more time
Season3 min
off heat: vanilla, raisins if using, peel and stick out
- raisins
the aromatics retired, vanilla in — and the serving-temperature schism every family maintains: warm from the pot with ground cinnamon (the abuela service) or chilled overnight into sliceable-thick (the deli-cup service); the entry declines to rule, and the pot conveniently allows both