Milk rice: salted or sweet recipe?

Milk rice is a typical first course of the Lombard tradition that is prepared in a short time and with few ingredients.
But there is also a sweet version, famous all over the world. Let's discover both

It is not a risotto and not a soup, milk rice is a real comfort food to prepare when you want a warm and enveloping recipe and is an excellent dish to take to the table even when you have unexpected guests because it needs few ingredients that almost always we have at home: milk, rice, butter and Parmesan cheese.

Milk rice: the salted recipe
Bring one and a half litre of milk to the boil and then pour 280 g of Arborio or Carnaroli rice.
After about 15 minutes the rice will have absorbed the milk and become creamy and wavy.

Then add a nut of butter and, if you like, grated Parmesan cheese.
You can also use more milk to make this dish less dense and more like a soup.

Milk rice as a filling
You can also use this rice to prepare rice croquettes, rice cakes or other recipes that require a greater consistency of rice. In this case, use 1 litre of milk instead of one and a half and 150 g of rice.
Let it cook for 10 minutes on the stove and then put it in the oven at 130° for another 15 minutes so that the rice completely absorbs the milk.
At this point add an egg, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon for the sweet version, or salt and parmesan cheese for the salted version.

The Solved, a Greek sweet
The solution (also known as risogalo) is a Greek dessert made from rice, milk and cinnamon.
It is the sweet version of milk rice and is a very delicate dessert, perfect for breakfast and snack.
It is prepared with a different proportion of milk and rice compared to the salty recipe.
In this case we need one litre of milk and 300 g of Arborio or Carnaroli rice.
The rice cooks in boiling milk with lemon peel and 90 g of sugar for about 30 minutes and is then perfumed with cinnamon. Remember to mix it often so that it does not cook too much on the bottom of the pot and keep the fire on a medium to low level. It should be served cold with a further sprinkling of cinnamon and may be enriched with cocoa for an even more delicious version.