Healthy sweet rice: recipe with less calories does not take sugar

Professional teaches how to reduce the calories of rice pudding with small changes in the recipe (Chef Dani Faria Lima/Disclosure)

O sweet rice it’s one of the foods that come back with everything as soon as the temperatures start to get lower. Despite being a delicious recipe that is most successful among Brazilians, however, it is necessary to have a balance when consuming it, since it is also usually quite caloric.

According to healthy chef Dani Faria Lima, the ideal is to replace some traditional ingredients with lighter ones, to have a more balanced dessert without giving up on flavor.

Next, the professional gives the tip and teaches how to make the recipe for healthy rice pudding, without refined sugar and milk of animal origin. She check out the step by step and delight without fear.

healthy sweet rice recipe

Ingredients

¾ cups of arborio rice 500 ml of almond milk or your favorite 500 ml of coconut milk Peel of ½ orange (without the white part) 1 cinnamon stick 5 cloves 1 tablespoon of butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 to 5 tablespoons of natural sweetener of your choice (sweet to taste)

Way of doing

Put the butter with the spices (cloves and cinnamon) in the pan. Let it warm up a little and add the washed and drained rice (very dry).

After three minutes stirring, add the almond milk or your preference.

Reserve ½ cup of the coconut milk and put the rest in the pan. Then add the orange peel, lower the heat and let it cook for 20 to 25 minutes.

Cover the pan for another 5 minutes and turn off the heat. Peel off the orange peels to store.