Using up leftover rice - rice pudding?

Scubabe

G'day all,
Okay, so we made a (really gross) curry the other night and ended up with a huge big bowl of rice leftover (hubby had never cooked rice before so made WAY too much LOL).
I just found the bowl of leftover rice in the fridge and realised if I'm gonna use it up then I really need to do something with it tonight - and I fancy a rice pudding.
Have done loads of internet searching and searched the forums here but all I can find are recipes for rice pudding made from scratch with raw "pudding rice" (god knows what this is, never heard of it, my mum always made rice pud with regular rice).

Anyway - can anyone tell me if I can make rice pudding with already cooked regular white long grain rice? If so, care to share your recipe??

Many thanks!!

Ness
(OS Newbie)

Penelope_Penguin

I don;t think you can make rice pudding from cooked rice. When you add the raw rice to the milk, it gives out starch which thickens the pudding. You've washed that starch away You could try adding some condensed milk and seeing if that works

We have older threads on using leftover rice. Would you like me to look for some other suggestions?

Penny. x

Jem8472

What about doing egg fried rice with something? Apparently old rice is better for doing egg fried rice.

kazmeister

Please be careful with leftover rice. You might want to look up exactly the dangers but I know my other half had really bad food poisoning from eating a leftover rice dish that he'd left in the fridge for a few days.

Stephen_Leak

As above, leftover rice should be used up very very quickly, or not at all.

For Mr Scubabe's future reference, 100g is a good measure of dry rice per person.

FRIED RICE

Per Person

INGREDIENTS

1 portion of boiled rice
2 tablespoons of sunflower oil

METHOD

Put the oil into a frying pan or wok on a medium heat. Add the rice. Fry for about 5 minutes until the rice grains separate. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

For egg fried rice, add an egg and whisk it up to scramble it before adding the rice.

I'm still working on a definitive special fried rice recipe so, in the meantime, just throw in some peas, sweetcorn, chopped beans, etc., etc., etc.

skintchick

YOu can;t make rice pudding with normal rice as far as I know, it has to be pudding rice and it has to be raw.

Try any kind of stir fried rice - cook up meat/veg, add the cooked rice then a little stock or water and gravy granules, then stir in a bit and serve.

Scubabe

Well, I finally found a recipe online for making rice pudding from cooked rice and I used it and it worked fine. Sure, it wasn't as properly creamy as making it with raw rice, but it was pretty darn nice if I do say so myself

Oh, and Stephen, I'm certainly not a Mr.... how many men do you know who are called Ness?

Thanks for all the fried rice ideas folks, but I didn't need them after all.

Cheers

Ness

Penelope_Penguin

Scubabe wrote: »

Well, I finally found a recipe online for making rice pudding from cooked rice and I used it and it worked fine.

...... and Do you have the recipe

Penny. x

Scubabe

LOL sorry
I don't have the exact page to hand anymore, but from memory:

Okay, I had about 3 cups of cooked white long grain rice.
In a seperate jug I beat 2 eggs and 2 cups of milk, added cinnamon, nutmeg and dark brown sugar.
Put the rice in a casserole dish, broke it up a bit with a fork, poured the milky liquid on top and popped in the oven for 45 mins at 170C (fan forced).
It was supposed to only be in for 30 mins but I found it was too liquidy so popped it back in for another 15 mins.

I'm going to have what's left for dessert tonight too

Ness