White chocolate and banana baked rice puddings

INGREDIENTS

• 1.2 litres milk
• 1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
• 100 gm short grain rice
• 50 gm caster sugar
• For greasing: butter
• 3 bananas, coarsely chopped
• 80 gm white chocolate, coarsely chopped
• For dusting: freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Bring milk, vanilla bean and vanilla seeds to the boil in a saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat, add rice and sugar, stir to combine, remove vanilla bean (discard) and set aside.
2. Divide banana and chocolate among 6 buttered 500ml baking dishes, pour over milk mixture, dust with nutmeg and bake until liquid is absorbed, rice is tender and a golden skin forms (1-1½ hours). Serve hot.