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Sütlaç (Turkish baked rice pudding) is a signature dish of Turkey; we have verified places to eat it in Istanbul. Creamy short-grain rice pudding finished under a hot grill so the top sets into a scorched, freckled skin. Start with where to eat Sütlaç (Turkish baked rice pudding) in Istanbul.
Creamy short-grain rice pudding finished under a hot grill so the top sets into a scorched, freckled skin. Served chilled in shallow clay bowls with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Sutlac has been on Istanbul muhallebici menus since the late Ottoman period, when cold milk-puddings became the city's standard dessert in the long evenings between dinner and tea. The version baked in a clay bowl under a fierce top heat, leaving a black-spotted skin, is the Istanbul signature; lighter unfired versions belong to other Turkish cities.
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