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Red Currant Rice Pudding

Soul-warming, morish, comforting... everything you would want in a rice pudding
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Servings 6 -8 people
Calories 457 kcal

Equipment

  • Big cooking pan
  • Measuring spoons
  • Food processor (fitted with the S blade) optional; for grinding down the dates into a paste, if you prefer

Ingredients
  

  • 250 grams dessert rice
  • 1 big splash amaretto
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 4 small handfuls sultana raisins
  • 25 large dates, pits removed (grind them into a paste, together with some water, in a food processor)
  • 1 small pinch salt
  • 1 can coconut milk
  • 8-10 tbsp agave syrup or honey
  • 100 grams santen (coconut butter) (for a pie filling, add in 200 grams of santen)
  • 1 big bowl red currants, stems removed
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon powder (Optional)

Instructions
 

  • First remove the pits from the dates, add them together with a splash of water to a foodprocessor fitted with the s blade and grind them into a paste.
    (you can skip this step and add in the pitted dates whole, if you don't mind small pieces of date skins still left in the pudding)
  • Add everything, except the red currants and cinnamon, to a big cooking pan. If the rice is not covered with liquid, add some water until it is covered with about 3cm of liquid.
    (Don't worry about the alcohol for the little ones. It will evaporate during cooking and everyone, big or small, can enjoy this rice pudding)
  • Cook everything until the rice is nice and soft and the pudding is thick.
    Stir every few minutes when the pudding is thickening as not to burn it
  • Meanwhile remove as many of the stems of the red currants as you can, and add them to the pudding in the last minute. When the pudding is as good as done.
    Stir them in and watch the colour turn very light pink
  • The last step is to stir in the cinnamon and scoop the pudding into a bowl and top with some more red currants.
    Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 457kcalCarbohydrates: 67gProtein: 4gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 15gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 24mgPotassium: 499mgFiber: 6gSugar: 55gVitamin A: 3IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 3mg
Keyword Dessert, pudding, recipe, Red currant, rice, rice pudding
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