Rijstevlaai

In Dutch and

Belgian cuisine Belgian cuisine is widely varied with significant regional variations, while also reflecting the cuisines of neighbouring France, Germany and the Netherlands. It is sometimes said that Belgian food is served in the quantity of German cuisine ...

, ''rijsttaart(je)''/''rijstevlaai'' (Dutch) or ''tarte au riz'' (French) (german: Reisfladen, all translate to “rice flan”) is a

pie A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts ( pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), swe ...

with a filling based on

rice pudding Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and other ingredients such as cinnamon, vanilla and raisins. Variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such ...

. It is native to

Verviers Verviers (; wa, Vervî) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Verviers. It is also ...

and popular around the wider region of Eastern Belgium, south-eastern Netherlands and the German region around Aachen. It is best served cold. Typically they are made 'single-crust'—with no layer of pastry covering the top. Belgian cuisine Dutch pastries Limburgian cuisine Rhenish cuisine Dutch words and phrases Sweet pies Rice dishes Verviers {{Dessert-stub