The last time I attempted a rice pudding it didn't go over very well. I tried too hard to "fancy it up"----this is a basic recipe, that is darn near perfect.
and it makes a LOT.
The Ingredients.
8 cups milk (I used half soy milk, and half fat free cow's)
1 cup long grain white rice
1 cup sugar
then:
1/4 cup heavy cream or half and half
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
The Directions.
I used a 4 quart slow cooker. Spray the stoneware insert with cooking spray, then combine the milk, rice, and sugar. Stir well and cook on low for 4-6 hours, or high for about 4. It took longer than I expected for my rice to become bite-tender---I did low for 3 hours, then high for another 2.
When the rice is tender, mix in a large mixing bowl, the eggs, cream, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Scoop a 1/2 cup of the hot rice mixture into the mixing bowl and whisk. Keep adding 1/2 cup at a time of the rice and milk mixture into the egg bowl until about half of the milk and rice mixture is gone from the slow cooker. Then pour everything back into the pot. Stir well. This is called "tempering your eggs"---you have to do this step, or your eggs will scramble on you when you add them to the crock.
Cover and cook on high for 1 hour. Stir well, then take the lid off of the cooker and unplug it. When the rice pudding is room temperature, you can refrigerate it. Some people like their pudding hot or warm, and some prefer it chilled----it's completely up to you.
The Verdict.
Delicious! So way better than the last time...
I'd guess that this would serve 14 people as a dessert. We had it for dessert and for an afternoon snack for a bit under a week. Super good.
Trust me.
more slow cooked desserts:
cheesecake
chocolate mousse
blueberry buckle
peach pie
creme brulee
pound cake
60 comments:
Hi. I was wondering - i have a 2 qt. crockpot, and while i like rice pudding, don't want to make too much of it... since you made it in a 4 qt, can i cut the amounts in half and cook it in a 2 qt? do i change the cooking time?
thanks. i love your site.
Hi Karen,
you can totally cut the ingredients in half for a 2 quart, but you won't need to adjust the cooking time.
yum!
--steph
Finally rice pudding! thanks
This sounds so delicious.
I love rice pudding so I was super excited to see a recipe that you liked. I only had time yesterday to make the rice with the milk and sugar. I had to put the batch in the fridge when it was finished. I woke up today and finished it. Since the rice mixture was cold, no need to worry about the eggs scrambling. It made it much easier. Thanks for your blog! We love it. Missionary Mom.
Hi Missionary Mom,
what fantastic idea! I'm so glad that it worked out well for you.
xoxo
steph
Can you freeze half? I'm not sure if rice pudding can be frozen? Or how long would it last in the fridge?
Shannon asked my question. this sounds yummy but I bet I would be the only one in the house to eat it :o)
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Rachel and Shannon, I don't really know. I only know about what freezes well through trial and error, and I haven't tried freezing this. We had it in the fridge for a full 7 days, though, and it tasted just as good. I did need to give it a quick stir before serving each time.
xoxo
steph
I love rice pudding! My mom use to do my grandma's recipe. Instead of using half and half, milk and sugar, she used a few cans of condensed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter and vanilla. Yum!
Yummy!!! It looks delicious! You know what? To please Brazilian sweet tooth you have to substitute part of the milk and sugar to condensed milk. Marvelous!!!
Oh, my goodness! I am so glad I found your blog. I love my crockpots.. And I'm always ready to try new recipes. I am adding you to my favorites. I hope that's ok.
I really enjoy rice pudding...this recipe will be added to my list to make soon. Thank you!
~LaDonna
Mmmm, this sounds great. Thanks for posting it. By the way I have a daughter with Celiac disease and have made many of your recipes from last year. I've really enjoyed following your blog.
I might have to try this. I like rice pudding and haven't been successful in making it. I wonder if I could half the recipe? That's a lot of rice pudding!
I suggest to all of you who are worried about making a full batch to go ahead and make that batch and share it with your neighbors or friends! People will tell you that it brings back warm memories. What a nice thing to share with others.
Missionary Mom
I LOVE rice pudding! Wonder if I can use egg replacer instead of the eggs since we have an egg allergy in our house . . . . I'll give it a try.
Hi! I absolutely LOVE your blog! I've been meaning to make rice pudding in the crockpot for some time now. I've always made it on the stovetop, and I've never used eggs. Do you think I could just cut out the eggs, or would the recipe need to be altered? Thanks!
Wow you read my mind. I was just looking up rice pudding recipes the other day and I found one from a trusted site but it involved cooking rice the old fashioned way (pot on stove) which I have never had much luck with. Going to have to try this out - maybe when we have company!
I'm SO excited about this recipe - I LOVE rice pudding, but don't usually have the patience to make it. Can't wait to give this a try! Thanks!
Rice pudding is my husband's favorite! I will be sure to try this, thanks!
I totally agree with you about not wasting your time trying to "fancy up" a great classic like rice pudding. It's one of those perfect desserts.
Hi! I love rice pudding! I was wondering...can you use short grain rice instead of long grain? We always have a lot of short grain rice readily available...
Thanks!
Hi Erica,
it will work just fine, but the texture will be squishier.
--steph
could you use only soy milk? it is all that we keep in the house. thank you
Hi! I made this Rice pudding this morning. Burning my lips as we speak because I can't wait for it to cool!
I made it totally VEGAN! I used a combo of unsweetened soy milk & ricemilk, as well as the EnerG egg replacer. It worked beautifully!
Thanks for this recipe! I've been waiting patiently for you to get through all the pork recipes and post something vegetarian. It's delicious!
Hope, yup. soy would work fine, and look up to see how JGambill veganicized it!
thanks, JGambill for your patience. :-)
xoxo
steph
I can't wait to try this. I made your crockpot lasagna a few weeks ago and it was FANTASTIC. It freezes fabulously too.
i just bought some rice to make this, been trying to for three days, first hubby forgot the half and half, then i did not realize i only had jasmine and basmati rice.....
is there really only 1 cup of rice in this that makes 14 servings, wow
i have not made rice pudding in so long, and was actually craving it. thanks for sharing
teri
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I linked your site in my post today. I featured your delicious maple ham recipe!
Thanks for a delicious idea.
Can't wait to try this, I'd be starting it right now if I had half & half in the house!
I just had whole milk and I subbed it in for the skim and for the half and half. My girls and I LOVED it. What a great thing the crockpot! We just went gluten-free so I think we are going to see a lot of this stuff!
Do you think this would work with brown rice?
-Kate
We made this yesterday and I completely botched the milk. It still turned out okay. I did have problems cooking it on high though- it clumped to the bottom. After I turned it to low it was just fine.
Terrific idea! My hubby and son love rice pudding so I'll try this by making the halved version you told Karen about. :-)
Thanks, Steph! Love your site! I just shared it with a GF support group I spoke at last night. :-)
Shirley
This was freaking FABULOUS!
I've been a lurker for awhile now, and as I live alone a huge crockpot of food isn't usually what I need. But I love rice pudding and I've never successfully made it before.
Thanks!
fab-u-lous. i added raisins in with the egg mixture as that's how i eat rice pudding. so good - thank you for bringing me a little bit of my childhood. :)
Hi Stephanie -- Thanks for your handy blog.
I love rice pudding so I tried this last night. Unfortunately, I think I either scrambled the eggs during the tempering process or during the hour of cooking afterwards. (And I tried to be super careful too) If I tried it again, I would probably do it on low only instead of high so the milk mixture doesn't get too hot. Either that or let it cool for a bit before tempering the eggs into it.
In any case: Warning! Watch out for the tricky adding-the-eggs-part!
Stay cool.
Alice
I tried this the other day and left it on high for four hours. It was WAY too long. While it was still delicious, the rice disintegrated. I'd definitely do it again but just cook it less - maybe 2-1/2 to 3 hours on high. My famly still ate it though!
I am really excited about trying this recipe. I have a tip about your rice taking too long to cook. Cook your rice first in milk without sugar. Add sugar later. Sugar seems to slow cooking. Thats what has been drilled into me, when we make the Indian equivalent of rice pudding called kheer.
Oh my is this wonderful. DBF's comment was "quick, we need to finish this rice pudding so you can make more!" Hah! I'll add raisins next time (meant to this time and then got caught up in housework and forgot). Also, I made it with all soy milk and it came out great, which is miraculous since usually DBF won't touch anything I make with soy.
Thank you so much for this recipe!
Hi Steph! One of my good friends is pregnant, and REALLY sick. One night, she mentioned that the rice pudding looked yummy and said "I wish the Crockpot fairy would come make me rice pudding". So, just call me the Crockpot fairy. I made this yesterday and OH MY, yum. I had never had rice pudding before, but I certainly will again. I had to cook mine on high for another hour, hour and half to get it to thicken up, but it was worth the wait. I'm taking this to her tomorrow, but if there are a couple of servings missing.... well, I just don't know what could have happened. Thanks for an EXCELLENT recipe, as usual!
Delicious! I made it last night, vegan, 2/3 coconut milk, 1/3 rice milk, agave instead of sugar, arrow root powder instead of eggs, and short grain brown rice, and raisins. It turned out perfectly!
Okay, so I'm a little late coming into this recipe, but it looks so good. However, am I missing something? You show Kosher Salt in the picture but not in your list. Just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything before I attempt this. Thanks!
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Hi gabby,
it's the 1/4 tsp salt. I just forgot to add the word "kosher"!
oxox
steph
Ah, okay, thank you! ^_^
I LOVE your blog. I have become the crazy GF/CF girl in my office and now the crazy crockpot girl!
In lieu of the half/half, I subbed in coconut milk! It turned out awesome. For vegans and dairy free folks, coconut milk is my new favorite addition. Thanks, Steph!
Bree
I adore rice pudding. I usually bake it, but have a very leaky oven and no AC so it can get hot! I tried your recipe just now, and it curdled. I did not have cream and left that out, and used powdered milk for a portion (since I didn't have quite enough milk). Curdling has happened to me when making it on the stove once as well. I have this idea in my head that the more fat in something, the less likely it is to curdle. Maybe it would not have curdled if I added cream? It's really disappointing after smelling it for several hours.
I also have this recipe for oatmeal that includes eggs and milk, and it always curdles too. Any curdling experts out there? (or anti-curdling experts?) Or comments?
Thanks. -laura
This was amazingly good! Didn't last long in my house with three water-polo playing teenage boys. Served them, three younger sisters, a cousin, and a bite or two for hubby and me. Wouldn't serve 14 in our house ;)
So, I realize you posted this in March and it's now July, but I just recently found your blog site and I'm LOVING IT! Anyway, I have this recipe cooking as we speak!! I just got to the tempuring the eggs part and I hardly had any liquid left in the crockpot, so I just mixed in 1/2 cup of the whole rice mixture at a time until my bowl was full and then I stirred it into the crockpot. Anyway, I licked the spoon when I was done stirring and it was the most amazingly creamy and delicious stuff I think I've ever had! I'm SO excited! I've already posted the link to the recipe on a few friends' facebook pages for them to try!! THANKS FOR SHARING!
Here's a mew twist on your rice pudding...instead of cream, try vanilla ice cream! I didn't have any cream (or milk) left after the 8 cups, so I used ice cream and the results were awesome!
I made this yesterday by cooking the milk on high for 3 hrs then I added the egg mixture and cooked an additional 30 minutes. It was the perfect consistency but the rice was a bit mushy. I used Arborio rice and I would like something more "chewy". Do you have any recommendations?
thanks for sharing this recipe!
Hi Ruthy,
I used long-grain basmati rice, and had good results. Arborio is a very short grain, and is supposed to turn "mushy"---it's the rice used when making risotto.
--steph
You are awesome!!! thanks!
Great recipe! However, I forgot to check the rice on time and overcooked it, now we have something like rice porridge! (On second thought though, is it possible I did not use long grain rice? My rice was not in the original package.) Anyway, I do plan on making it again but would like to cut the recipe in half...one egg or two? Thanks so much for sharing your recipes...you have turned me into Crockpot Woman! My family thanks you also.
This is on my weekend to-do list and the kids are excited to help! That said, my son wants to try it with chocolate soy milk.. any thoughts on how that might work out?! I'm thinking I can cut the sugar since the milk will be sweetened. Chocolate Rice Pudding - okay, it sounds a little weird, but it just might work! LOL
I was browsing the "company favorites" tag and made the gingerbread latte. Then I thought, "What if I used these spices in the rice pudding?" I doubled them, to make it proportional with the amount of milk. Gingerbread rice pudding! Yumm!!
This is the best recipe I have found for rice pudding! And very simple to make. THanks ooo much for sharing.
Darn this friend of mine...I told her I was making rice pudding (it's looking good, too) and she said, "I prefer tapioca, wonder if you can do that in the crockpot too?"
Well, apparently you CAN...so that's next on the list!
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