How to make Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding

Everyone has their favourite kind of comfort food. It could be chicken pot pie, your mother's chili, a nice slice of homemade German Chocolate cake... From the regular to the weird, there's one dish that makes you feel just a little bit better than others at the end of a long day. Enter this recipe.

There's a store in Montreal that is dedicated simply to rice pudding. Cocoa, hawaiian, marshmallow... it's incredible the flavours they have. But the one I just had to replicate was the Vanilla Bean pudding, which is creamy, flavourful and all-around addictive. Can you say best thing ever to make a bad day better? 'Cause I can.


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Please note : Tiny Hands will not be joining us for this Instructable, because it was done almost entirely on the stove. And as Tiny Hands always says, "If it's hot, keep your paws off."

Step 1 What You're Gonna Need

List of ingredients, pretty short and sweet:

1 1/2 cups water
3/4 cups basmati rice (the nice long grain)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy (35%) whipping cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise (the short kind, about 4-5" long)

Equipment:
Large pot / saucepan
wooden spoon

Time required: about one hour.
Make sure you're around to stir the pudding during the last half hour of cooking, to make sure you get the consistency you want.

Comments

[charlyzona]

In my country (and in other latinamerican countries) we call this recipie arroz con leche (rice with milk)... even there is a song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUE4CBDeOY ... the only difference is the seasoner: we use cinnamon not vanilla
Nice!

[skyisblu]

By the way, nice pictures too.

[skyisblu]

Disappointed at the lack of Tiny Hands, I totally get the reasoning why. Hot, Hot!

I do think Tiny Hands deserves a generous portion of rice pudding for being left out, though! And me too.

[Goodhart]

That really sounds good !