Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe - Rice Pudding With Pistachios

Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe is a Middle Eastern rice pudding recipe with added goodness of crunchy pistachios and flavoured with orange blossom water giving the rice pudding a fresh aroma.

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Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe - Rice Pudding With Pistachios
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Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe is a Rice Pudding With Pistachios.

Rice puddings are a very well known Indian sweet recipe. But other cuisines around the world do also have rice pudding recipes with their personal touch and this rice pudding with pistachio that imparts a unique flavour to the rice pudding is also one of them.

Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb is thick and delicious and made by adding orange blossom water to sweetened rice cooked in milk.

Serve Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe (Rice Pudding With Pistachios) as a party dessert after a dinner of Lebanese Fattoush Salad Recipe, Beetroot Falafel With Pita Bread Recipe and Pumpkin Hummus Recipe.

If you like sweet puddings, you can also try various pudding recipes like

  1. Ven Pongal Recipe (South Indian Rice and Lentil Pudding)
  2. Coconut Tapioca Pudding Recipe with Spicy Strawberry Sauce
  3. Mango Phirni Recipe (North Indian Milk Pudding With Fresh Alphonso Mangoes)
  4. Cinnamon Rice Pudding With Cherry Compote Recipe

Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Course: Dessert
Diet: Vegetarian
Prep in

5 M

Cooks in

45 M

Total in

50 M

Makes:

4 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Rice , soaked for 1-2 hours
  • 4 cups Milk , and more to mix cornflour
  • 3 tablespoons Sugar , (adjust to taste)
  • 2 tablespoons Corn flour
  • 2 teaspoons Orange blossom water
  • 10 Pistachios , and more to garnish, crushed

How to make Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe - Rice Pudding With Pistachios

  1. To begin making Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe,  soak rice in water for 1-2 hours. You can also soak the rice in hot water for 30 minutes.

  2. To a heavy bottomed pan/handi, pour milk and start heating on medium heat.

  3. When the milk comes to near boiling, add sugar and stir. Keep stirring till all the sugar dissolves and the milk is boiling, for about 5 minutes.

  4. Drain the soaked rice and add the rice carefully to the boiling milk-sugar mixture, stir once and simmer for 25-30 minutes until the rice in it is cooked well. Keep stirring in occasionally and keep the lid closed.

  5. While the rice is cooking, dissolve cornflour in a little milk at room temperature.

  6. Once the rice is cooked in the handi, add the corn flour-milk paste to the boiling pudding on simmering heat and stir.

  7. Immediately add the orange blossom water also before the pudding starts thickening.

  8. Keep stirring and allow the pudding to thicken in about 5 minutes time and switch off heat.

  9. Add about a handful of pistachios, give a stir and allow to cool to room temperature.

  10. You can serve the Riz B Haleeb warm, or chilled.

  11. Scoop it out to individual serving glasses and garnish with more crushed pistachios.

  12. Serve Lebanese Style Riz B Haleeb Recipe (Rice Pudding With Pistachios), as a party dessert after a dinner of Lebanese Fattoush Salad RecipeBeetroot Falafel With Pita Bread Recipe and Pumpkin Hummus Recipe.