VEGAN GLUTEN-FREE SUTLAC

I HAVE PREPARED THIS RICE PUDDING FROM THE TURKISH CUISINE!

The basic ingredients required for this dish are the same as our's, rice, milk, sugar or jaggery! The little of difference would be in the ingredients used for flavouring or the bake after the cooking part! We visited Turkey in 2018, July, don't remember if we tasted Sutlac or not! I predominantly remember having the halwa, jalebi kind of, a semolina sweet almost like gulabjamun! This Sutlac thing I do not remember in particular, it seems we had on the day we had our lunch in a big area where all of the tour companies were taking their tourist clients to for a lunch! I do not maintain a written log for my tours, hence tend to forget all of the details! Yesterday, I visited a fair in the Hougang area and saw one of the Turkish stalls selling Sutlac! I wished to have but they were yet to make it, they were selling only kebabs! If you have known me by now, you would not be surprised to see me cooking it  at home within a day!

WHY AM I SUCH A LAZY STUFF?

I am never tired of sitting at home! Okay, I can be bored at times and venture out! But I tend to rush back home at the earliest! My home can do without me, I cannot do without it. Today, I did not go out for a walk! I was busy all of the morning cooking a vegan, gluten-free version of  Turkish rice pudding. Thereafter, I did the morning prayer pretty late and then going out would have been a bad idea, given I am yet not off the cough & cold and that I have a blog post to write! In between writing, I would have to doze off few times & get delayed too publishing it! While the entire world has one dream or the other to achieve; I am the only one who was born to sleep, eat & repeat! I had to do some form of exercise, I threw my hands & legs here and there today! After the shower, I had a choice of lunch I could not have thought of eating with love over a decade back; porota & oven cooked spiced chillies!

I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch and the last night's dinner with rajma curry, jeera rice & a chapati!

Tonight too I would have a chapati meal! It seems like I can have a plain rice meal only with a dried Bombay Duck Bharta at this time! I am just waiting to see the reaction of T looking at the chapati on my plate! I am strict, they must finish all of the fish curries I am unable to have!

WHAT IS THIS VEGAN GLUTEN-FREE SUTLAC?

See, how I made a big pot full of the healthier dessert! It hurts to think my only son buys mere small boxes of pudding for himself, his mumma always made fresh for him and T, refrigerated the excess! Anyway, if he had to leave home for his betterment,  mumma has to accept! Mumma feels too lonely without him around! Only he knows if he feels that or if he thinks mumma lies around being dramatic! That was the first thing I felt when I looked at the finished dessert bowl today! He too is a homely being, unless I go and see I do not know if he stocks enough food in the refrigerator! Today, I tried a healthier version of Sutlac; the Turkish Rice Pudding using Soy Milk and named it VEGAN GLUTEN-FREE SUTLAC! We loved Turkey, it's monuments and it's food; the most perhaps the spicy red lentil soup; my people definitely the kebabs!

Recipes consulted before doing mine :

The Spruce Eats

Unicorns in the Kitchen

The Navage Patch 

INGREDIENTS :

UNSWEETENED SOY MILK : 1 LITRE

SHORT GRAIN RICE / KALIJEERA RICE : 1/2 MEDIUM SIZED TEA CUP

DATE PALM JAGGERY : 1 SMALL TEA CUP [YOU CAN SKIP & USE ONLY SUGAR & MORE OF IT]

SUGAR : 3-4 TBSP

ROSE WATER : 2 TSP

VANILLA ESSENCE : 1 TSP

CORN FLOUR : 2 TSP

DRY FRUITS TO GARNISH

We would take the soy milk in a deep bottomed vessel, put it for boil. We would keep the heat at minimal!

We would wash the rice, soak it in enough water for an hour!

Once the soy milk has come to a boil, we would take out about 1/4 coffee mug and add 2 tsp of cornflour to it, mix well!

We would drain the water from the rice and add the grains to the milk and stir cook for 3-4 minutes! We would let it simmer at minimal heat! We must give a stir every 2-3 minutes!

Whilst the rice is cooking in the milk, we would mash the jaggery! Once the rice has boiled enough, we would add the mashed jaggery & sugar!

The kitchen counter has the rose water & vanilla essence ready to be used as required!

We would stir cook for sometime and add the milk-cornflour mixture and continuously keep stirring!

 

We would switch off the gas stove, add the rose water & vanilla essence, stir and transfer to an oven proof bowl!

Mine is a convection mode microwave! I placed the low height wired stool and on top of it the rice pudding bowl!

Thereafter, I baked it at 180*C for 20-25 minutes! My convection bake mode worked well after a long time!

Taking the bowl out we would let it cool completely, then we would refrigerate it for 4-5 hours and have it chilled!