Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
Pudding rice cooked very slowly with milk, cream, sugar and nutmeg until thick, creamy and with a lightly golden skin.
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How to Cook Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
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Rinse the rice briefly. Put in the slow cooker with the milk, cream, sugar, butter, salt and vanilla and stir once.
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Cover and cook on low for 3 hours, stirring once after the first hour, until the rice is tender and the pudding is thick and creamy.
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Grate over the nutmeg and serve hot with the jam.
Keep an Eye on These
- Use short-grain pudding rice.
- Add a splash of milk if it thickens too much.
- Stir in a spoonful of cream for extra richness.
About This Recipe
The first cold evening of autumn calls for this, and the slow cooker does the stirring. Rice pudding has always been made slowly, in a low oven for 2 hours, and the slow cooker uses the same principle: gentle, even heat and plenty of time for the starch to thicken the milk.
Use short-grain pudding rice, not basmati or long-grain, which stay separate. Pudding rice releases starch and becomes creamy. Rinse it briefly, add it to the slow cooker with milk, cream, sugar, a knob of butter and a pinch of salt, and stir once. Don't add all the milk at once if your cooker runs hot. Keep 100 ml back and add it if the pudding looks dry.
Cook on low for 3 hours, stirring once after the first hour. The pudding is ready when the rice is tender and the milk has thickened to the texture of custard. It will continue to thicken as it cools.
Grate nutmeg over the top and serve hot, with a spoonful of jam, stewed fruit or just a swirl of cream. Leftovers are good cold, from the fridge, the next day.
What to Serve It With
Jam · Stewed fruit · Cream · Cinnamon
Leftovers
Keeps in the fridge for 3 days. Loosen with milk when reheating.
What's in a Serving
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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