Old Fashioned Rice Pudding Recipe (2024)

Old Fashioned Rice Pudding Recipe

This comfort food dessert is a great way to use leftover rice and it's SO delicious! Just like Grandma used to make! The prep is easy and it's great with or without raisins!

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This recipe brings back so many great childhood memories! My mom used to make it when I was growing up and it was always my absolute favorite.

My siblings and I would wait so patiently for the rice to cook and cool, for the pudding to bake, and then finally for it to cool off enough for us to eat it.

It never lasted very long before it was gone back then, and it doesn't last long now when I make it for my family. The custard is sweet and the sprinkle of cinnamon on top when serving adds a perfect touch of flavor.

When I make this recipe, I always use leftover rice from the refrigerator. It saves time not having to cook and cool it before using since the baking time is quite long.

This recipe is tried and true and it's been in the family for almost 40 years. I'm not sure where the original recipe came from since it was always in my mom's recipe box on a recipe card, handwritten.

I love it exactly the way it is, since I grew up eating it this way.

If you like creamy rice puddings, this recipe probably isn't for you! This is definitely a set custard and is eggy and delicious. Not really creamy at all compared to some. If you're looking for a creamy rice pudding, we also love this Cream Soda Rice Pudding.

What are the ingredients in this recipe?

  • Cinnamon: Loaded with antioxidants and also has anti inflammatory properties it has been used medicinally around the world for thousands of years. Cinnamon is a spice from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum. You can use it in sweet and savory cooking and baking.
  • Vanilla extract: this extract is made from vanilla bean pods soaked in water and alcohol. Try using pure vanilla extract instead of imitation. This is the most common extract used in American desserts and I put it in pretty much anything sweet, Use store bought or make your own here!
  • Granulated sugar: Also known as white sugar, table sugar or regular sugar. It's grainy, common and used in many types of recipes
  • cooked rice
  • large eggs
  • milk
  • salt
  • nutmeg

Recipe tips:

  • Make sure the cooked rice is cold, or room temperature. This ensures it won't clump during the baking process
  • If you prefer less custard, use two cups of milk, two large eggs and 1/2 cup sugar. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes instead
  • Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator after cooling
  • Some recipe testers preferred reducing the baking time by 5-10 minutes
  • Cooked instant rice doesn't work the best in this recipe, use cooked long grain rice

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This recipe is ready in these steps:

  • Preheat the oven
  • Pour the rice into a baking dish
  • In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla
  • Add the salt and sugar and whisk
  • Pour the custard over top of the rice and sprinkle with nutmeg
  • Bake until custard is set.
  • Remove from oven and cool
  • Sprinkle with cinnamon when serving
  • Refrigerate leftovers

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What readers say about this recipe:

  • Trisha- I used evaporated milk (not enough regular milk in the fridge) & added raisins. It smells fantastic!
  • Dyan- Delicious. I cut the recipe in half but kept the cinnamon and nutmeg as recipe states. Will make the full recipe next time
  • Kathy- I added raisins, it was great.
  • Thea- Tastes exactly like MAMA’s
  • Julia- I usually don’t care for rice pudding, but this recipe converted me! Soooo good!

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did!

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Old Fashioned Rice Pudding Recipe (8)

Old Fashioned Rice Pudding

Yield: 6 servings

Author: Hot Eats and Cool Reads

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 1 H & 20 MTotal time: 1 H & 25 M

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Pour the rice into a 2.5 quart glass baking dish.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla until combined. Add the salt and sugar and whisk until combined.
  4. Pour the custard over top of the rice and sprinkle with nutmeg.
  5. Bake for 1 hour 20 minutes, or until custard is set. Remove from oven and cool before serving.
  6. Sprinkle with cinnamon when serving. Refrigerate leftovers.

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Old Fashioned Rice Pudding Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is traditional rice pudding made of? ›

Rice pudding is a creamy mixture of rice and milk that is cooked until it's thick and soft. It can be sweet or savory. This raisin-studded dessert rice pudding is thickened with an egg, sweetened with sugar, and enhanced with vanilla.

What kind of rice is best for rice pudding? ›

For the same reason you wouldn't normally make risotto with basmati or jasmine or brown rice, you wouldn't normally make rice pudding with it. Calrose, a short/medium grain rice, works well with this recipe because it gets soft and sticky when cooked.

How do you make James Martin's rice pudding? ›

Heat a large non stick pan until hot, pour the milk in, add the butter, add the rice and coat all over. Add the sugar, milk and cream, then the vanilla seeds. Stir through then simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Pour into an oven proof serving dish and then pop in the oven for 10 minutes.

Why is my rice pudding not thick enough? ›

However, you can add, if, if your rice pudding di or vanilla pudding didn't thicken it is not only because of the kind of milk you used, you generally you need to use some kind of a starch, either arrow root or corn starch.

Is rice pudding good or bad for you? ›

You've got to love that it's made from simple ingredients like rice, milk, sugar and eggs. While this is a dessert, it does offer some nutritional benefits, including almost 10 grams of protein and 15 percent of the daily recommendation for bone-building calcium per cup.

What causes rice pudding to get watery? ›

Oven temperature is an important key to baking custards. If eggs are overheated by high temperatures over 325ºF, they curdle and get watery. Some people use a (messy and potentially dangerous) water bath to hold the baking dish of pudding.

Should you rinse your rice for rice pudding? ›

To Rinse or Not to Rinse Rice

While we've mentioned before that this dessert gets its perfectly creamy texture from the starch that is released when the grains are cooking, we do suggest a rinse for this recipe in order to wash off excess debris and added starch.

Which is the greatest rice pudding in the world? ›

Answer: 1. the greatest rice pudding in the world is kheer. 2.it is the mixture of sweetened milk with a whole rice.

Why is the rice hard in my rice pudding? ›

As a result, the rice in the pudding can become firm and hard when it cools down. It's a natural process that occurs with certain types of rice. To prevent this, you can try adding a bit more liquid or cream to the rice pudding before refrigerating it.

How do you make Jamie Oliver rice pudding? ›

Method. Put the rice, milk, 200ml of water, half the maple syrup or honey and the vanilla into a large pan. Give it a good stir, then place the pan on a very low heat. Cook gently for around 45 minutes, or until thick and creamy, stirring regularly.

How to make rice pudding Nigella? ›

Preheat the oven to 150'C. Put the rice and golden raisins in an oven proof dish. Stir together the evaporated milk, sugar and normal milk and pour over the rice. Put in the middle tray of the oven and stir after half an hour, put back in the oven for another hour and then remove.

What are the ingredients of Ambrosia rice pudding? ›

Ingredients
  • Full Cream Milk,
  • Skimmed Milk,
  • Whey (Milk),
  • Rice (9%),
  • Sugar,
  • Total Milk content 72%

Why is my rice pudding gummy? ›

If your rice has absorbed too much liquid, the grains may have split and the starches may have given the rice a soft, gluey consistency. One way to fix that? Add even more liquid. Pour in some milk, a dash of vanilla, and spoonful of sugar, and suddenly your mushy rice is a rich rice pudding.

Why does my rice pudding taste grainy? ›

In my experience, the most common reason for grainy textured pudding is - by far - failing to stop stirring and cooking once the thing thickens up. It's silly for a recipe to call for "18 minutes" of cooking, given how many variables there are which make it impossible to give a precise time.

Why does my rice pudding curdle? ›

Curdling occurs when the eggs in a pudding are overcooked. For that reason, stove-top puddings are usually thickened with starch and then enriched with eggs. Since the starch thickens first, the pudding will already be fully cooked and thickened before the eggs would have gotten hot enough to curdle.

Is rice pudding made from real rice? ›

The following ingredients are usually found in rice puddings: rice; white rice (usually short-grain, but can also be long-grain, broken rice, basmati, or jasmine rice), brown rice, or black rice. milk (whole milk, plant milk, cream, or evaporated) spices (cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, or others)

What are the ingredients in Kozy Shack rice pudding? ›

Milk, Eggs, Rice, Sugar. If our ingredients got any more simple, that would be simply absurd.

What nationality makes rice pudding? ›

It's actually been around for centuries, believe it or not, and was thought to have originated in China, which has an ancient rice culture. This has been disputed by some food historians; they argue that rice pudding likely originated in India, which has an ancient rice culture as well as an ancient sugar culture.

Is rice pudding rice the same as normal rice? ›

This is not a specific type of rice, but a generic description for short-grained white rice used for making rice pudding. The term is rarely used outside England. Whichever rice you use, the important thing is that it should give a soft, creamy, slightly sticky result.

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