Tagen Ros Mo-amar (Baked Rice with Milk and Salt)

Ingredients

• •3 cups rice
• •5 cups milk.
• •1 small teaspoon salt
• •1/4 teaspoon pepper
• •1 stick butter.
• •Optional:
• •Lamb meat or chicken.

Directions

1. 1Wash the rice several times, and keep it in water for about ½ an hour.
2. 2Pre-heat the oven, very high 500. Your oven may be less powerful. Therefore, it may take more time to cook.
3. 3Grease a large (tall because milk rises) oven pot with butter and put the remaining 1 and 1/2 sticks of butter in the pot. Then put the pot in the hot oven until the all the butter is melted.
4. 4Drain the water from the rice.
5. 5Add one small spoon of Salt and 1/4 spoon of Pepper to the rice, and mix well.
6. 6Put the rice in the oven pot and cover it with five cups of milk.
7. 7The heat should be about 500 degrees Fahrenheit, cook for fifteen minutes or until it starts boiling.
8. 8Reduce the heat to 300 degrees Fahrenheit for another 25 minutes or more.
9. 9Check the rice with a knife every 5 minutes. If the knife contains rice, leave it for another 5 or 10 more minutes.
10. 10Keep checking every 5 minutes until it is cooked and its face becomes brown.
11. 11Optional: Boil for a few minutes, small pieces of lamb meat or chicken, and add them to rice before you start cooking it.
12. 12Can be eaten hot or cold. It tastes better to heat it before you eat it with tomato and cucumber salad.