Pumpkin Rice Pudding
Recipe: #25182
November 06, 2016
Categories: Desserts, Puddings, Rice, White Rice, Pumpkin, Southern, 5-Minute Prep, Brunch, Christmas, Halloween, Potluck, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Kosher Dairy, more
"Found this recipe in an email sent to me by @ realsimpledotcom & admit we see rice pudding as comfort food to-the-max. So it should come as no surprise that we see this recipe as exceptional comfort food to-the-max. Enough said. ENJOY!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (310.1 g)
- Calories 394.3
- Total Fat - 8.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 4 g
- Cholesterol - 20.4 mg
- Sodium - 477.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 67.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.7 g
- Sugars - 45.3 g
- Protein - 13.6 g
- Calcium - 279.7 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 6.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a lrg saucepan, combine the rice, milk, sugar, vanilla bean, orange zest, orange juice & salt. Heat to boiling over med-high heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to med-low & cook (stirring occasionally) until the rice is tender & most (but not all) of the liquid is absorbed, approx 20-25 min.
Step 2
Remove from heat, discard the vanilla bean & stir in the pumpkin. The recipe can be made ahead to this point.
Step 3
Cover & refrigerate the cooked rice mixture up to 2 dys ahead. To rewarm, stir in an additional 1 1/2 cups milk & stir gently over med-low heat. Serve warm, sprinkled w/the brown sugar as desired.
NOTE FROM ME - Altho not a part of the recipe, it occurred to me that raisins are often part of most rice pudding recipes. However, this recipe targets the holiday season & I thought it would be a nice touch to add plumped cranberries as an optional ingredient. If you agree, plump them & drain well. Then add them at the same time you stir the pumpkin into the cooked rice.
NOTE #1 ON 1/18/17 - Made a half recipe today using the dried cranberries w/the full amt of pumpkin because I had an excess. It worked fine, so feel free to use the lesser amt of pumpkin per the recipe or increase it as I did. The cranberries are a must IMHO.
Tips
- No special items are required.