Torta di Riso: Sweet Rice Pie Recipe by Vince LaMontagna

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 500 gm firm ricotta
• 125 ml pouring cream (½ cup)
• 60 ml Strega
• 30 gm sugar
• Pastry
• 300 gm each plain and self-raising flour (2 cups)
• 125 ml vegetable oil (½ cup)
• 125 gm butter, diced
• 110 gm sugar (½ cup)
• 2 eggs, whisked
• Scraped seeds of ¼ vanilla bean
• Rice mixture
• 500 gm medium-grain rice, rinsed
• 500 ml buttermilk (2 cups)
• 55 gm caster sugar (¼ cup)
• 1 cinnamon quill
• 1 thin piece each orange rind and lemon rind, removed with a peeler
• Scraped seeds of ½ vanilla bean