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Baked Rice Custard with Peach Topping

A baked rice custard topped with chilled peaches, sour cream, brown sugar, and cinnamon.

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Why it works: Vanilla and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Baked Rice Custard with Peach Topping

Oven350°F
Time45 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Combine rice, 5 cups milk, and salt.

  2. Heat to boiling in the top of a double boiler.

  3. Cook over hot, not boiling water for 45 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally.

Make the custard

  1. Stir sugar into eggs.

  2. Add remaining 1 cup milk and vanilla.

  3. Gradually stir into hot rice mixture.

  4. Pour into a buttered 2-quart casserole.

  5. Set in a pan of hot water.

  6. Bake 45 minutes at 350°F or until set.

  7. Remove from hot water to prevent further cooking.

  8. Serve warm or chilled.

Add the topping and serve

  1. If desired, serve with Peach Topping.

  2. Chill custard.

  3. Arrange peach slices on top of chilled pudding.

  4. Spread with sour cream.

  5. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.

  6. Broil until sugar melts, about 5 minutes.

  7. Watch carefully to prevent top from burning.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

659Calories
37 gProtein
15 gFat
93 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Toppingnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooks into soft grains that thicken the milk and give the custard its body.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that cooks with the rice and sets into a creamy custard.
Eggs
Set when baked, binding the custard into a sliceable, tender texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, when melted under the broiler, a crisp caramelized topping.
Sour cream
Adds tangy richness and a cool, creamy layer under the topping.

The step that matters

Gradually stir the egg mixture into the hot rice. Adding the eggs slowly and stirring constantly tempers them, so they warm evenly and do not scramble into lumps in the custard.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, egg, vanilla, cream, cinnamon):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, egg, vanilla, cream, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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