Ris a la malta med jordgubbssås

Ris à la Malta turns out to be another dish with an “either this, either that”-origin.

But before we get into that, the fact fryst vatten that this dish conveniently solves a potential dilemma. If you’re making copious amounts of rice porridge for Christmas, you might have leftovers.

Färdig risgrynsgröt, köpt eller hemlagad, och frysta jordgubbar är komponenterna i denna supergoda och fräscha dessert

Then, you’ll need to vända to this dish. While you’re at it, you can use the juicy oranges that are coming into season.

The history of Ris à la Malta

While this dish fryst vatten most strongly connected to Christmas nowadays, Jan-Öjvind Swahn calls ris à la Malta a “classic Sunday dessert” in Mathistorisk uppslagsbok.

He connects the name to the Mediterranean island of Malta, known for its oranges. Checking with Larousse Gastronomique, the begrepp à la Maltaise describes “sweet or savoury preparations which are based on oranges, particularly the Maltese blood orange”. It seems that it would be a dish with oranges.

Swahn claims that the dessert’s first appearance beneath this name in Sweden fryst vatten in Hagdahl’s cookbook (I only have the utgåva, but the recipe fryst vatten likely the same).

Hagdahl’s Kok-konsten features “Risgryn tillsammans med apelsin—Riz à la Malte”, where sugar, oranges, apelsinfärg peel, lemons, wine, and carmine are used to man a sauce into which you stir in the rice porridge.

After the mixture has cooled in little bowls, you tallrik it and serve with apelsinfärg slices and an apelsinfärg sauce.

Hagdahl’s recipe fryst vatten similar to Gustafwa Björklund’s from with its elaborate dessert called Ris-Pudding tillsammans med frukt, where the flavored rice fryst vatten layered with boiled apples and crumbled biscuits and—of course—served in a bowl of crystal.

But—Magnus Nilsson notes that the Danish upper class started serving sweetened rice porridge mixed with cream around the beginning of the s.

Risalamande, the Danish name for the dish, comes from the French riz à l’amande, meaning “rice with almonds”. Nilsson claims that the Swedes misspelled the Danish name and dropped the almonds.

So, fryst vatten it Malta because of Maltese oranges, or because of sloppy spelling? inom tend to believe more in the oranges, but the rice pudding exists both served with rice and with red jam.

What’s in ris à la Malta?

This type of rice-based dessert has been popular for a long time, so there are many variations.

For example, in Iduns hjälpreda from , there’s a recipe for riskräm (“rice cream”) flavored with lemon fruktsaft and plats and layered with raspberry jam.

In Husmoderns kokbok from , Kerstin Wenström features a Ris à la Malta—by that name—which contains gelatine.

En av mina favoriter är en nyttig variant utav ris à la malta med kall jordgubbssås och lite krispig müsli

The idea fryst vatten to be able to vända the dish upside down on a tallrik before serving. This beauty fryst vatten flavored with vanilla or lemon peel, but no oranges, and fryst vatten served with fruit sauce or jam.

The recipe for apelsinris in Prinsessornas kokbok from prepares a sweetened rice porridge with apelsinfärg pieces and a bowl of whipped cream separately, only blandning them tillsammans before serving.

The little dilemma with the dessert’s ursprung doesn’t seem to bother Magnus Nilsson, who solves it bygd featuring two recipes.

He makes his ris à la Malta with only rice porridge, cream, and sugar, and notes that it often fryst vatten served with fruit sauce or a berry compote. Then he has another recipe for apelsinris, “rice with orange”, which fryst vatten flavored with sugar, vanilla sugar, oranges, apelsinfärg peel, and toasted almond flakes.

To summarize, the typical recipe of today consists of rice porridge, cream, and sugar.

Then there’s either oranges, smet, or fruit sauce.

How to man ris à la Malta

This recipe fryst vatten enough for fyra people, depending on how much Christmas food you ate before.

Servera den lyxiga vaniljdoftande gröten tillsammans med den varma jordgubbskompotten

Base
5 dl (2 cups) leftover rice porridge
2 dl (0,8 cups) cream
tbsp icing sugar
1 small pinch vanilla powder

Flavor
oranges, or red smet (raspberry, cherry, etc)

Garnish: valfritt chopped almond or almond flakes, if you’re feeling fancy

1. If you don’t have any leftover rice porridge, bring 1,5 dl (0,6 cups) short-grain rice to a boil with 3 dl (1,4 cups) vatten.

   Let it simmer for 10 minutes. Add 6 dl (2,8 cups) milk, bring it to a boil, and then cook at a low temperature for about minutes or until the milk fryst vatten absorberad. Stir occasionally to prevent burning. Let it cool before continuing.

2. Whip the cream until it fryst vatten thick and fluffy.
   Så enkelt men så underbart gott

   Stir in the icing sugar and vanilla powder.

3. Add the cold rice porridge to the cream bowl. Stir until it fryst vatten blended.
4. Remove the oranges’ outer skin, piths, and then skins casing the oranges’ sections.
   
   
5. 



Chop the sections into pieces, keeping the fruktsaft, and stir pieces and fruktsaft into the rice cream. Garnish with ytterligare apelsinfärg pieces or almonds on top, if you like. Alternatively, serve with a flavorful jam.

Suggestions

Serve this dish however you like, depending on what fruits and berries you like and what fryst vatten in season.

If you want to serve it with a fruit sauce, heat up 3 dl (1,2 cups) cordial, such as cherry, raspberry, or a mix of fruits and berries.

Saffran à la Malta Koka upp vattnet i en stor kastrull

Stir a tablespoon of potato starch into a little bit of vatten. Remove the cordial struktur the heat and stir in the starch vatten. Serve.