easy rice pudding

Sarah Hamm's Note:

I like this recipe because it is easy, quick (compared to other rice pudding recipes), and uses ingredients you probably always have around the house...and it's good!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• ½ cup uncooked rice (short or long-grain)
• 1 cup water
• 2 eggs or 4 egg yolks
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup raisins (optional)
• 2 ½ cups milk (whole or 2%)
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon cardamom or ½ teaspoon cinnamon or ½ teaspoon nutmeg (whatever you prefer)

Directions:

1. Bring water and rice to a boil; reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 14 min.
2. All water should be absorbed.
3. (alternately, use 1 cup of leftover cooked rice).
4. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
5. Beat eggs in ungreased 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
6. Stir in sugar, raisins, milk, salt, and spice.
7. Stir in rice.
8. Bake uncovered 45 minutes; stirring occasionally.
9. Remove from oven and stir well.
10. It will still be pretty wet.
11. Let set for 15 minutes to thicken.
12. Serve warm or chilled.
13. (I like it better chilled!).

Reviews

[Kim1]

Made this and it is so easy to make and wonderful. I doubled the recipe and cooked it for 15 minutes longer. Also did not add any Raisins. And then added more Cinnamon after it got out of the oven. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

[Diana #2]

If you like egg custard like I do, you will love this version of rice pudding. After reading other reviews concerning the egg, I blended the egg, milk, sugar and spices together before adding the raisins and cooked rice. I baked it in the toaster oven for the specified time, and DID NOT stir. The result was this wonderful pudding with a fine custard layer on top. Beautiful. I made half the recipe as DH doesn't care for egg custard, and used cardamom as my spice of choice. I like the flavour of this spice, but can see I would soon tire of it. I guess I'm just a cinnamon/nutmeg person when it comes to puddings. Old habits die hard. I will definitely make this version again for myself. Very easy to prepare. Made for "Spice of the Month" in the Gardening Forum.

[Seasoned Cook]

The flavor was good, but I did not like having to stir while in the oven. It must be stirred during the last 20 minutes or the eggs will make lumps. I used the cardamon spice for flavoring. The recipe yielded 4 servings. I will stay with my stovetop version, but very glad I tried the 'with' egg version. Prepared as a Participant in the February 2009 "Easy Does It" event of the Cooking Photos Forum