LittlePod Recipes: Janet's Persian Rice Pudding

Ingredients

• 50g butter
• 100g arborio rice
• 850ml whole milk
• 100ml cream (single or double, as you wish)
• 90g caster sugar
• 1 vanilla pod, split, seeds scraped and reserved
• 1⁄2 cinnamon stick
• grated zest of 1⁄2 orange
• grated zest of 1⁄2 lemon
• 1 tsp rose syrup or 1 tbsp rosewater
• 6 crushed pink peppercorns
• Pinch grated nutmeg
• 1 tbsp flaked almonds (optional)
• 3−4 saffron strands
• 1 tbsp pomegranate seeds
• 2 tbsp pistachios, roughly chopped
• 2 fresh figs, roughly chopped