Ingredients

- 800 ml milk

- 200 gr arborio (or carnaroli or roma) rice

- 3 eggs

- ½ glass white wine or rum

- 80 gr butter

- 1 orange

- 60 gr pinuts or almonds

- 130 gr sugar

- 2-3 little spoons cinnamon

- 40 gr raisins

- 40 gr dry cramberries (optional)

- 6 gr saffron (optional)

Let's begin by putting the raisins and the cranberries (if you do not like cranberries, just substitute them with raisins or the other way around) in a bowl and add either white wine or rum.

Now put the milk in a pot, add 2 teaspoons of cinnamon and 50 gr sugar and bring it to boil.

When it boils, turn the heat low and add the rice and mix well. The rice will have to cook in the milk and it is ready when all the milk gets absorbed by the rice. This will take 45-55 minutes more or less and remember to mix it every 4-5 minutes, in order not to get the rice stick to the bottom of the pot .

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees. Put the eggs and the rest of the sugar in a bowl and mix them well with a mixer.

Squeeze the orange and keep the juice and melt the butter in the microwave.

Add now the cranberries and the raisins and the wine or rum they were in, the orange juice, the melted butter, the peanuts or the almonds and the cinnamon (this extra cinnamon is actually optional, depending on your taste) and mix well. The rice should now be ready. Once it is ready, let is cool off for 10-15 minutes and then add it to the mixture.

Mix well and add the saffron and mix very well until the mixture gets homogeneously yellows. Cover a cake-form with some baking paper and put the mixture in it.

Bake it for about an 1 hour. It is ready when it gets a little brown on top. Let ti cool of and serve (maybe with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream!)