Limburgse vlaai or sweet rice pie

Servings

12

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Cuisine

Dutch

Super simple. Very tasty! A Dutch classic, perfect for a Sunday afternoon! Make a dough, mix some rice with a few ingredients, bake and enjoy with some whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles!

Limburgse vlaai or sweet rice pie

Ingredients

  • 250 gr flour 
  • 7 gr yeast
  • ½ tsp salt 
  • 40 gr butter
  • 30 gr sugar 
  • ½ egg 
  • 100 ml milk, luke warm

Filling

  • 150 gr dessert rice
  • 800 ml whole milk
  • 125 gr sugar
  • ½ vanilla bean
  • 2 eggs
  • Pinch of salt

Directions

  1. Mix all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and knead until an elastic dough is formed, about 10-15 minutes.
  2. Place the dough into a bowl and cover. Let rise for 1 hour.
  3. Grease your pie tray in with some butter
  4. Knead the dough on a floured surface and roll our a bit bigger than the pie tray so that some of the dough will just fall over the edge. Cut off the excess dough.
  5. For the filling add the rice, milk, 100 gr of sugar, salt and vanilla bean marrow to a pan. Bring to a light boil and stir. Let simmer for about 15 minutes or until a thick consistency is formed. When thickened let the mixture cooldown.
  6. Split the egg yolks and whites.
  7. Beat the egg whites with 25 gr of sugar.
  8. carefully mix the egg yolks and beaten whites into the rice mixture.
  9. Add the filling to the pie.
  10. Bake the pie at 200 degrees Celcius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 25-30 minutes.
  11. Let the pie cooldown
  12. Serve the pie with some powdered sugar on top.