I cannot recommend highly enough using leftover Indian or Thai rice to make rice pudding, if it has been well made to begin with and they did not throw any savory spices into it. Good basmati or jasmine rice, and especially jasmine rice that has been inflected with coconut, works wonderfully in pudding.
I do love the most elegant version, with minimal spicing, but when re-purposing rice, I tend to turn the knob to "excessive". Oh, do I have some palm sugar in the cabinet, to make this feel more Thai? Or if I have Indian rice, perhaps there are some chai tea bags I can steep in the milk and then pull out at the end, and maybe I have some sultanas that can plump up nicely as they simmer....
I love rice pudding, it has been a while but I should make it again! One of my favourite childhood books was this translated from German one of my dad’s called “A Trip to Lazibonia” by H.M. Denneborg. (His copy is pretty worn and it’s very hard to find but I managed to get him a more intact heavily discounted copy a while back from an eBay seller shutting down their shop.) you can see the cover here: https://www.abebooks.com/9780718208202/Trip-Lazibonia-H-M-Denneborg-071820820X/plp it’s about two kids who go with a captain of a flying ship to the land of Lazibonia where clothes grow on trees, roasted chickens fly into your mouth etc. To actually get to Lazibonia, the kids have to eat through an entire thick wall of rice pudding! The description always sounded so good, then I finally tried it years later and it was just as good as I hoped.
Thank you for this unexpected and delightful culinary detour. My grandmother always made very good rice pudding, just like this, and I think it's been nearly 20 years since I've had it. Long past time to revisit it, so again, thank you!
We used to have a shop in Northampton that sold 30 flavors of rice pudding (and for some unaccountable reason, hot dogs). I still miss it. We were not worthy.
For the lazy among us, Senor Rico brand is IMHO better than Kozy Shack.
OK, but hear me out: Cardamom. If sweet warm milk were a spice it would be cardamom, so it's like gilding the lily, if that were a compliment (as my mom uses it) instead of a mild judgement
Yaaaaaaaas. Cardamom is perhaps the "sweet spice" that is most neglected by Americans. (And I'd nominate fenugreek as most-neglected savory, though there are a lot of potential contenders there. Roasted cauliflower gratin with fenugreek and ground brown mustard is to die for.)
I will try this, stirring and singing all the while "It's a nice day for some rice pudding" to the tune of Billy Idol's "White Wedding"
I am 100% going to annoy my spouse by doing that next time I make rice pudding.
I cannot recommend highly enough using leftover Indian or Thai rice to make rice pudding, if it has been well made to begin with and they did not throw any savory spices into it. Good basmati or jasmine rice, and especially jasmine rice that has been inflected with coconut, works wonderfully in pudding.
I do love the most elegant version, with minimal spicing, but when re-purposing rice, I tend to turn the knob to "excessive". Oh, do I have some palm sugar in the cabinet, to make this feel more Thai? Or if I have Indian rice, perhaps there are some chai tea bags I can steep in the milk and then pull out at the end, and maybe I have some sultanas that can plump up nicely as they simmer....
this is brilliant!! except for the sultanas, as I do not like them in my rice pudding. but I respect your right to have them and so on
Far be it from me to pollute somebody's rice pudding with something they don't enjoy.
I've also done dried sweet cherries, dried apricots, dried strawberries, whatever I happened to have around.
This sounds good—basically a sweet risotto recipe. But to me, a good bread pudding (no sending the butter and eggs into exile) is best.
I love rice pudding, it has been a while but I should make it again! One of my favourite childhood books was this translated from German one of my dad’s called “A Trip to Lazibonia” by H.M. Denneborg. (His copy is pretty worn and it’s very hard to find but I managed to get him a more intact heavily discounted copy a while back from an eBay seller shutting down their shop.) you can see the cover here: https://www.abebooks.com/9780718208202/Trip-Lazibonia-H-M-Denneborg-071820820X/plp it’s about two kids who go with a captain of a flying ship to the land of Lazibonia where clothes grow on trees, roasted chickens fly into your mouth etc. To actually get to Lazibonia, the kids have to eat through an entire thick wall of rice pudding! The description always sounded so good, then I finally tried it years later and it was just as good as I hoped.
!! Just like the Land of Cockaigne!!
Yes!!! :D
Thank you for this unexpected and delightful culinary detour. My grandmother always made very good rice pudding, just like this, and I think it's been nearly 20 years since I've had it. Long past time to revisit it, so again, thank you!
My nephew and I are rice pudding obsessed.
I think this will be my favorite Chatner this year.
you and your nephew have excellent taste
We used to have a shop in Northampton that sold 30 flavors of rice pudding (and for some unaccountable reason, hot dogs). I still miss it. We were not worthy.
For the lazy among us, Senor Rico brand is IMHO better than Kozy Shack.
THIRTY FLAVORS! Please list as many as you can remember immediately right here
and yes agreed Señor Rico is very good
Haha! The one I remember best was caramel, or maybe it was creme brulee?
You make me want to make rice pudding- I usually buy it in little pudding cups, after my few attempts were runny and sad
OK, but hear me out: Cardamom. If sweet warm milk were a spice it would be cardamom, so it's like gilding the lily, if that were a compliment (as my mom uses it) instead of a mild judgement
Sweden knows!
Yaaaaaaaas. Cardamom is perhaps the "sweet spice" that is most neglected by Americans. (And I'd nominate fenugreek as most-neglected savory, though there are a lot of potential contenders there. Roasted cauliflower gratin with fenugreek and ground brown mustard is to die for.)
This post inspired in me three suggestions. If you haven’t seen it already, consider watching Kantaro the Sweet Tooth Salaryman, one.
Two, try Pudding Chomeur. It is sweet enough to electrify your teeth.
And, three, get your hands on a sample of Hilda Solani’s Hot Milk.