Soft, light: Sweet rice cake next to the coffee

The base of this cake is a rice pudding, known in some places as arz con leche or sotlach - a sweet and warm dessert of rice cooked with milk in the texture of a pudding.

In this version from Hungarian cuisine, the sweet pudding is combined with egg batter and baked as a soft and wonderful orange-scented cake without a drop of flour. A simple and wonderful cake with coffee during Passover and also for those who avoid gluten.

Hungarian orange-scented rice cake

Recipe by: Avivit Periel Avichai. 30 minutes work, 70 minutes total, easy to prepare, 2 English cakes.

Ingredients for the recipe:

1 liter of milk

1 cup of Persian rice

5 tablespoons of sugar 

Grating an orange from a whole orange

2 tablespoons of butter

A pinch of salt

4 egg yolks

4 proteins

Method of preparation:

How do you make Hungarian orange-scented rice cake?

1. Heat an oven to 180 degrees.

2. Cook rice in milk with a pinch of salt over low heat for 20-25 minutes, while stirring.

3. Remove from heat, add egg yolks, orange peel and butter and mix well.

4. Whip the egg whites and sugar to a firm foam.

5. Using a spatula, fold the foam into the rice - work in folding motions until all the foam is absorbed into the rice and milk mixture.

6. Transfer to 2 English cake pans lined with baking paper and bake for about 35 minutes.

Avivit Periel Avichai, in collaboration with Sugat