Rice Pudding Recipe

Rice Pudding is a simple yet delicious easy home cooking recipe. Eaten around the world it is served as both a sweet and as a savoury dish.

The methods of cooking rice pudding and the variations of ingredients added is endless according to what continent in which it is prepared.

Here in the UK rice pudding has been part of the home cooks repertoire for many years and is passed down through the generations as part of mums special recipe collection.

The most basic and easy rice pudding is a delight in its own right, but we at easy home cooking are addicted to this very simple to make lemon and coconut flavoured rice pudding recipe.

Ingredients

• 0.6 (1 pint) full fat milk.
• 0.6 (1 pint) Coconut milk.
• 140g (5oz) pudding rice.
• 110g (4oz) caster sugar.
•  knob of unsalted butter.
• 1 lemon (zested).

Easy Rice Pudding – Method

Preheat the oven to 140 C / Gas 2.

Butter a large ovenproof dish or roasting tin.

Bring the milk and the coconut milk to a simmer in a large saucepan.

Stir in rice and sugar.

Pour the milk and rice mixture into the ovenproof dish. Add the knob of butter knob of butter and sprinkle with the lemon zest

Bake the rice pudding in the preheated oven for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Stir the pudding halfway through baking.

Additions & Variations

To take this recipe even further, try adding thickly sliced banana to the bottom of the ovenproof dish before adding the milk and rice mixture.

As mentioned previously, the combinations are endless and experimenting is fun. However we must not lose sight of the fact that sometimes less is more and the simplest recipes are often the best.

After you have tried this delicious lemon and coconut variety check out wikipedia for a comprehensive list of other methods and ingredients for rice puddings from around the world.

What is your favourite rice pudding variety?