Baked rice pudding

Have this creamy rice pudding cooking in the oven while you make dinner and round off your meal with a comforting pud. Put the pudding rice, sugar, vanilla, baked rice pudding and cream in a bowl and stir to combine.

Pour the mixture into the prepared dish and grate over a generous layer of nutmeg. Bake for 1 hr 30 mins until a brown skin has formed on top and the rice is cooked and tender. Leave to cool slightly, then scoop the warm pudding into bowls and serve with a dollop of jam on top. PUDDING TWISTSTry swapping the vanilla for lemon or orange zest to change the flavour.

Alternatively, use vegan spread, coconut milk and coconut cream to make the pudding dairy-free. This website is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution. Danilo Alfaro has published more than 800 recipes and tutorials focused on making complicated culinary techniques approachable to home cooks. A Dutch oven is a good choice for cooking rice since it has a nice sturdy base that conducts heat well and a tight-fitting lid. Preheat your oven to 375 F. Start with one cup of uncooked rice.

This will be enough for four regular servings of rice. To make a double batch, just double all the quantities given here but not the cooking times. Make sure your pot is big enough to hold the cooked rice since it triples in volume. Rinse the rice with cold water until the water is clear. You don’t absolutely need to rinse the rice, but doing so removes excess starch that can make the rice come out sticky. The flip-side is that rinsing the rice washes away some of the nutrients that are added to the white rice. If you rinse your rice, make sure to let it drain completely.

Note that you don’t need to rinse brown rice. 3 cups of liquid per cup of rice. 2 tablespoon of butter to the liquid as well as 1 teaspoon of Kosher salt. Once your liquid is boiling add the rice, cover tightly, and transfer it to the oven. Or, if you’re using a separate baking dish, combine the water and rice in the dish and cover it either with a lid or a tight piece of foil and transfer it to the oven.