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Rice pudding with
jam sauce

SERVES 4

300ml milk
300ml cream
2 tbsp caster sugar
1 vanilla pod, split in half lengthways
butter, for greasing
50g short grain pudding rice
pinch of grated nutmeg
FOR THE JAM SAUCE
1 jar of Moran’s Blackcurrant
and Guinness Jam
50ml water

Put the milk, cream, sugar and split vanilla
pod into a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then
turn o the heat. Set aside for 15 to 30
minutes to infuse.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C/gas
mark 4. Grease a 1 litre ovenproof pudding
dish generously with butter.
Put the rice in the greased baking dish and
strain the milk through a ne-mesh sieve
over the top. You can wash and dry the
vanilla pod and save it for another use. Stir
to combine, then grate a pinch of nutmeg
Favourite over the top. Bake in the oven for 1½ hours,
walk, view or until the rice pudding has thickened and
cultural site? the top is golden brown.
‘Just up behind Ballinagh
there’s an eighteenth- Meanwhile, to make the sauce, put the jam
century curiosity called in a saucepan with the water and warm
Fleming’s Folly. It’s an over a low heat, whisking to blend. Cook for
un nished stone tower 5 minutes and serve warm doppoed on top
and legend has it that of the rice pudding
a man called Fleming
tried to build it high
enough to see the ships
sailing out of Dublin Fleming’s Folly
Bay,’ explains Kieron.
‘Whatever about that,
there’s a magni cent
view of seven counties
from the top.’

Moran’s Mega Jam
What started in 2010 as little more than a hobby
selling homemade jams at a farmers market soon
became a successful business for DIT Cathal
Brugha Street graduates Kieron and Claire Moran
thanks to the Food Academy programme. Now
employing eight people at a purpose-built factory
in Ballinagh, Co. Cavan, and with many local
growers supplying them directly, their handmade
‘free from’ jams, chutneys and relishes often
have quirky flavour combinations: anyone for THE FOOD ACADEMY
strawberry and bubblegum jam or smoked apple PROGRAMME was founded in
chutney? With 211 SuperValu stores across the 2014 and now has 320 producers
country now stocking their products, this tasty
business is nothing short of a mega success. participating and helping to support
1,500 jobs in Ireland.
See SuperValu.ie for more.

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