Rice pudding recipe

DWhite

I can make rice pudding, but I’ve never achieved that skin on the top! I need some help with it please! How do I do it? I’ve baked it and slow cooked it, never a sign of the skin.

-taff

Are you using short grain rice, sugar and butter and milk? [ butter not obligatory, just nicer]
You've got to leave it quite sloppy before you put it in the oven for the rice to sink and the milk to sit above it, then if the oven is on gas 4 or electric equivalent, it'll brown.

Chrystal

I think you need to do full fat milk... and I always put grated nutmeg on before I cook it.

bouicca21

I use 1% milk, so it’s not the milk that is the problem. I don’t make it that often so don’t have pudding rice and use basmati. Add a pinch of mixed spice and a bay leaf. The skin comes from grated nutmeg on top.

VfM4meplse

It's the starch that gives the thick skin. It can be achieved with basmati but it's never going to be thick and follow you around

My mum and I are in deadlock: I favour arborio rice to create a thick creamy pudding, but mum insists on basmati. I also cook it on the stove (never and oven) and avoid creating a skin by covering my rice pudding as it cools.

bouicca21

Hadn’t thought of using arborio. Will give it a try.

Pollyflinders

When was a child there was only one type of rice - pudding rice. When we starting eating curries we bought 'long grain rice'.

Now things are the other way around.

DWhite

That’s true Polly! I use Arborio as I can then use it for risotto as well as rice pudding. Never heard of using basmati for it!

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I was quite old when I realised you could make rice pudding; it was total news to me that it didn't always come out of a tin!

Pollyflinders

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

I was quite old when I realised you could make rice pudding; it was total news to me that it didn't always come out of a tin!

Ditto for custard with me! Bird's it was!

comeandgo

I use full fat milk, sometimes even cream if I want rid of some, butter, sugar and pudding rice. Cook long and slow, well 2 hours at 160. Always get brown skin top.