Saturday, April 18, 2009

Raspberry & Coconut Rice Pudding with Lime

COCONUT, RASPBERRY AND LIME RICE PUDDING

Time to prepare: 5 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Devouring time: Not long - none left over for seconds.
Dishes: one pot!

This recipe started from a twittersation about rice pudding and yummy things to serve for brunch. Divinepurple was saying she would like to make a coconut ice rice pudding with frozen raspberries folded through the pudding - I thought that sounded like a damn good idea. In todays Brunch Cooking Class I gave it a whirl...so here it is.

I had a recipe for rice pudding with Papaya from Christine Manfields new book Fire and then changed it a bit - this is how it turned out. It was ABSOLUTELY a hands down winner and sooo easy to make.

Coconut Rice Pudding with Raspberries and Lime
Serves 4

what you need...
160gm aborio rice
500ml coconut milk/cream
200ml milk
100gm sugar
zest of 2 limes
½ tspn vanilla paste
250ml cream
20ml fresh lime juice (about 1 lime)
150gm fresh or frozen raspberries
50gm raspberries for garnish
30gm coconut flakes or shredded for topping


what to do.....
Wash the rice under running water to get rid of excess starch as normal.
Place the rice in a pot with the coconut milk, milk, sugar, lime zest and vanilla paste. Cook over moderate heat – stirring every now and then.
Once the rice is simmering, cover with a lid and turn down low – cook for around 30 minutes or until the rice is soft and has absorbed all that liquid.
Remove from the heat and let sit for 5 mins.

Stir through the cream, raspberries and half the lime juice.
Spoon into serving bowls or one nice big one and top with remaining raspberries, lime juice and coconut.
I served it in a gorgeous glass bowl on a stand - it looked stunning! However I nearly forgot to take a pic - so this is all I could manage.

Enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds yummy. What's vanilla paste and where do you get it? Can a lazy cook use essence instead?

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  2. Awesome!!

    Maybe we should organise a rice pudding meme?

    I will DEF be making it soon. I had some frozen raspberries, but I was asked by Once_was_Teen_Beast daughter to make my famous ice cream cake with them.

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