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Tessies Rice Pudding Recipe
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This is one of our family’s favorite recipes.
This Rice Pudding recipe is from the cookbook:
Dom DeLuise’s Eat This It’ll Make You Feel Better Cookbook
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We make it for Christmas and New Years Day every year.
You can customize this recipe to your taste, such as by adding raisins or amaretto, or more vanilla or cinnamon, or more or less rice depending on the final texture you prefer.
I hope you and your family enjoy it as much as ours does!
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Level of Complexity: Easy
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Tessies Rice Pudding Recipe
This is from the Dom Deluise Cookbook "Eat This It WIll Make You Feel Good". It is one of our family’s favorite recipes. We make it for Christmas and New Years Day every year. I hope you and your family enjoy it as much as ours does!
Equipment
- 4-6 quart pot
- 1 large spatula or spoon to stir with
- medium sized serving bowl
Ingredients
- 1/2 gallon milk 2% or regular
- 1 stick butter (1/4 pound)
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 1/2 cups rice (short or medium grain arborio rice is best. It is usually found in the Italian section of the store. Brands I have seen are Viggio, Pastene, Goya). (NOTE: 1 1/2 cups of rice make a thicker rice pudding, if you prefer a more custard-like pudding with less rice, you can use as low as 1 cup of rice for this recipe)
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup cream (heavy or light cream is fine)
- 1 dash cinnamon (to sprinkle on top at of the finished rice pudding to serve)
- 1.5 oz amaretto (optional)
Instructions
- Combine the milk, butter, and sugar in a pot and heat until hot, but NOT boiling
- Add the rice to the pot and stir frequently.
- Simmer over low heat for 45-55 minutes. Don't let the milk boil or let the rice stick to the bottom of the pot. Stir frequently - at least every 3 minutes. Do not cover the rice.
- While the milk mixture is simmering, mix in a separate bowl: 1 egg, vanilla, cream, and optional amaretto. (I don't add the amaretto because my kids don't like it.)
- When the milk and rice mixture have thickened to a consistency that you like in your rice pudding, turn off the heat and move the pot away from the hot part of the stove.Be careful not to overcook it because it will become too thick.
- Take the egg / cream / vanilla mixture and add 3 tablespoons of the hot rice to it. This is to temper the eggs, so they don't scramble when added to the hot rice pudding.
- Then pour the egg / cream /vanilla mixture into the hot rice pudding and stir.
- Optional Additions at this point: You can alter the flavor a bit by adding more Vanilla or Amaretto at this point. Cinnamon is also an option (less than 1/2 teaspoon is recommended.) Many people also add 1/2 cup of raisins to the pudding. (I don't).
- Pour your finished rice pudding into a serving dish or large tupperware. Sprinkle optional cinnamon on top.
- Cover and Refrigerate for 3 hours or more.
- Enjoy!
Notes
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings: 12 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 360 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 15.3g | 20% |
| Saturated Fat 9.3g | 47% |
| Cholesterol 61mg | 20% |
| Sodium 418mg | 18% |
| Total Carbohydrate 45.5g | 17% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.4g | 1% |
| Total Sugars 22.8g | |
| Protein 8.3g | |
| Vitamin D 13mcg | 63% |
| Calcium 213mg | 16% |
| Iron 1mg | 8% |
| Potassium 144mg | 3% |
| *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calorie a day is used for general nutrition advice. | |
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Note to cook:
I usually use short-grain arborio rice or medium-grain Goya rice to make this.
Regular rice, like Uncle Ben’s long grain, doesn’t absorb the liquid as well, and it will come out too watery. I have not tried this with long grain rice, but I would guess that you may have to use less milk.
NOTE on RICE Quantity: 1 3/4 cup of rice creates a thicker rice pudding with a less custardy feel. If you prefer a more custard-like pudding with less rice, then use 1 cup of rice. Don’t alter any of the other ingredients. This is a personal preference; both versions have the same great taste.
Tessies Rice Pudding Recipe
Thank you! This recipe is soooooo good!
This is a great recipe. Not hard to make, but you need patience to watch and stir the rice for 45 minutes. We all loved it.
Great and easy recipe.
I made this to bring to someone’s house for dessert. it was a big hit. There was none left. Bring a can of whipped cream to serve.
It seems like 2 cups of rice is too much for this recipe…I made it according to the recipe, but it was thicker than I am used to, not enough pudding. I didn’t use the optional Amaretto. It still tasted good and was easy to make.
Can I double this recipe?
I have never tried too, but I don’t see why not. The current recipe makes quite a lot of rice pudding.