Rice Pudding Recipe Puerto Rican
Coconut milk is what sets arroz con dulce boricua apart from.
Rice pudding recipe puerto rican. Simmer for about 1 hour stir occassionally. Place rice in a small bowl. The dessert is a sweet rice pudding with coconut and raisins that is normally associated with the holidays thanks to spices like cinnamon ginger and cloves. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil in a small saucepan over high heat.
Add the cinnamon sticks cloves and anise seeds. 2 cans evaporated milk raisins as many or few as desired 1 stick butter melted 1 tsp. Pour the rice into a low serving dish or platter. Translated arroz con dulce means sweet rice in spanish.
Reduce heat to low. Sprinkle with ground cinnamon if desired. Puerto rican rice pudding which growing up we called coconut rice pudding and my grandmother used to make it all the time. Can be served warm or cold.
Studded with raisins and oh so creamy with coconut milk. Let soak for at least 2 hours. A sweet sticky treat that became a weekly pudding that we ate during the winter months. To manage lactose restrictions substitute carnation evaporated milk with carnation lactose free evaporated milk in any recipe.
Stir until well combined. Our lactose free evaporated milk has a sweeter profile than regular evaporated milk so you may notice a slightly sweeter profile to your recipe. Salt 1 to 2 c. Add the milk raisins and shredded coconut to the rice and simmer until the rice is soft about 10 15 minutes.
Coming home to the familiar smell of cinnamon we knew what she was making. Continue to cook uncovered until creamy like a soft pudding. Place ginger cinnamon sticks cloves and 2 cups water in medium saucepan. Arroz con dulce nothing says comfort food like a cozy bowl of puerto rican rice pudding.
Remove cinnamon stick and cloves. Puerto rican rice pudding arroz con dulce if you didn t know yet i come from puerto rico a little island in the caribbean and there christmas is serious business. Tender grains of rice are cooked in a fragrant cinnamon and spice infusion. If the rice begins to dry out before tender add 1 2 ladles at a time until tender add remaining can of coconut milk to rice pudding.
Sugar or to taste. Cover and set aside to steep for 15 minutes. Mateo family puerto rican sweet rice pudding note. They last the longest there than anywhere in the world.
It s ok if it a little runny because the rice will continue to absorb the coconut milk as it cools. Vanilla flavoring 1 tsp.