{WWDH} Rice Pudding

This week’s theme for Wednesdays with Donna Hay is RICE! While here are lots of types of rice – white, brown, parboiled, wild (although it’s not really a rice), Arborio, even Black or Forbidden rice – we usually only use one or two of these regularly.  With all the rice choices it was not easy to find a recipe.

I finally settled on a rice pudding.  It was easy peasy since it used left over rice.  In my case, basmati.  The ramekins have 2 TBL of rice to which a simple custard is added.  Vanilla and cinnamon give it the flavor.

20 minutes in the oven and you have a quick, comforting dessert.  And while it was still hot I sprinkled a little turbinado sugar over the top to melt.

I adapted this recipe for use in an Instant Pot.  The ramekins are  stacked in the pot and then cooked  on porridge for only 9 minutes.  I used quick release.

I have been a little intimidated by my new Instant Pot so haven’t used it much.  I’m trying to remedy that in small steps.

Donna’s recipe is on page 138 in new food fast

For more rice visit Rice is Nice on Wednesdays with Donna Hay.

 

{FFWD} rice pudding and caramel apples

I am always amazed at the power of Arborio rice to absorb so much liquid. Just 1/2 cup of rice and it soaks up FOUR cups of milk!! FOUR CUPS!! Amazing!!

I have made rice pudding before. I made it for CEinMB with pumpkin. It was the first time I had made it and it worked! Cause the first time I made it – it was a sad mess!! But I finally figured it all out! So now I am actually comfortable making it. Like this week for French Fridays with Dorie. After 40 minutes I had a sweet moist rice pudding to serve with Dorie’s tasty Caramel Apples.

Oh, it’s so good. Actually the pudding is just pudding, but Those. Caramelized. Apples!! I ate could have eaten those with a spoon. Dorie has them in an apple cider caramel which added so much extra flavor. Sugar, butter, cream, apple cider make up the sauce. I didn’t have any apple cider so I used some slightly diluted boiled apple cider I had made earlier.

The recipe is on page 429 of Dorie’s around my French table.

Stop by French Fridays with Dorie and check out the other Dorista’s puddings.