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Saffranspannkaka

Name: Saffranspannkaka
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Sweden
Ingredients: 100g Rice; 700ml Milk; A pinch Saffron; 2 Egg; 60g Sugar; 30g Almonds; 100ml Heavy Cream; To taste Strawberry Jam; 10g Butter

Dessert

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

A Gotland dessert of rice cooked in saffron milk and baked with almonds.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Saffranspannkaka is a traditional sweet from Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea. It uses saffron brought by Hanseatic trade in the Middle Ages, baking rice cooked in milk together with eggs. On the island it's served with dewberry jam and whipped cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a café in Visby with its medieval walls, the yellow cake comes with red jam and white cream as summer visitors rest and watch the cobbled street.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rice 100g
Milk 700ml
Saffron A pinch
Egg 2
Sugar 60g
Almonds 30g
Heavy Cream 100ml
Strawberry Jam To taste
Butter 10g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the rice, 600ml milk, and saffron in a pot and cook on low for 30 minutes, stirring now and then, until porridge-like. Let cool.
Roughly chop the almonds.
Mix the eggs, sugar, and remaining milk, then add the cooked rice and almonds.
Pour into a buttered baking dish.
Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes until set.
Serve with whipped cream and jam.

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