Danish rice pudding with cherry sauce

Name: Danish rice pudding with cherry sauce
Ingredients: 2 vanilla pods; 300g short-grain pudding rice; 1.6 litres whole milk; 2tbsp caster sugar; 500ml double cream; 150g blanched almonds, chopped; 700g fresh or frozen pitted cherries; 150g caster sugar, plus extra to taste; 1 vanilla pod; 3tbsp cornflour

Danish chef Trine Hahnemann shares her favourite Christmas Eve comfort food

By Trine Hahnemann

15 December 2023

Mark Roper

Late at night on December 24, when the Christmas Eve celebrations are over and everybody is in bed, I love to light some candles, curl up on the sofa and treat myself to a big portion of leftover rice pudding, risalamande in Danish. I just sit there and savour this moment of bliss – another Christmas Eve has gone by.