Baked lemon & vanilla rice pudding

Made this today. I let it cook for about 2 and a half hours. After an hour and a half it was still pretty runny so I added two small egg yolks to thicken the milk (like you do with custard). An hour later and it was the perfect consistency. The lemon gives a really lovely delicate flavour, and I sprinked ground nutmeg on to give the traditional skin. A very easy, delicious desert which was just as tasty the next morning cold.

Made this for the first time today - I've been looking for recipes hot gluten-free puddings and only just thought of rice pudding. This was a very lovely flavour, loved the lemon. Next time I'll scrap the seeds out of the vanilla pod (perhaps this is what 'split' means - I just cut down the side). I thought 100g rice seemed low and chucked a bit more in, which made it too stodgy, so next time I'll try following the recipe! I couldn't get pudding rice so used risotto rice... since seen another recipe that said spanish paella rice is a good substitute too. All my guests wanted a blob of raspberry jam with theirs. Definitely doing this again.

I have made this several times now. Fantastic. I double the quantities and use Long Life cream, evaporated milk and UHT long life milk. I sprinkle with fresh grated nutmeg before baking and its tastes just like Ambrosia. Yum, yum, yum. Certainly doesn't last long in this house!

I made this with a combination of double cream and semi skimmed milk as that's what was available in my fridge. Loved the freshness that the lemon brought to it. Cooked it in the roasting oven of my Aga whilst it was in slumber mode and 4 hours later we had the most deliciously creamy rice pudding. Couldn't resist a dollop of raspberry jam with, for a touch of school days nostalgia. :-).

Very nice baked rice pud, creamy and tasty.

i made this with skimmed milk, light emlea and 15g sweetener and cooked for 10/15 mins longer and it was lovely

Mine didn't thicken either! I probably did something wrong but I think there's not very rice in the recipe compared to the amount of milk and cream. I added another 100g of rice and 50g of caster sugar and thickened it on the hob in the end.

Lovely recipe, the whole family loved it. I made a shopping error and bought a 280ml carton of double cream, so used this and then made up the difference with milk (I used semi skimmed) and didn't have a vanilla pod so used 1 tsp of vanilla extract. I agree with the other reviewers and say that it makes nowhere near enough to serve 6 people!

Any thoughts on whether this would work with dairy substitutes like soya milk and soya cream? I'm lactose intolerant but used to absolutely adore rice pudding as a kid so would love to find a way to make it again without giving myself a poorly tummy!