Coconut Tapioca Pudding (Rice Cooker)

For rice cookers with a porridge cycle. This is a delicious, creamy pudding, with the luscious taste of coconut. Tapioca pearls cook to perfection in the rice cooker. Try topping with sliced or chopped tropical fruit - mango, pineapple, banana, papaya. Recipe can be halved for 3-cup cooker. From the Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook. Guessing on cooktime.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 3 1⁄4 cups canned unsweetened coconut milk
• 3⁄4 cup  small pearl tapioca
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1  large egg, beaten
• 1  pinch salt
• 2 1⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Place all ingredients except vanilla in bowl of 6-cup rice cooker. Stir to combine. Close the cover and set for Porridge cycle.
2. Open the cover and stir briefly every 20 minutes, then close cover.
3. At end of cycle, carefully remove bowl from cooker. Stir in the vanilla. Pour into a large serving bowl or individual serving dishes.
4. Let cool. Serve warm, or refrigerate covered with plastic wrap.
5. Note: small pearl tapioca is about the size of sesame seeds; anything larger will take longer and require more liquid.