Recipe for rum and raisin pudding
I’ve grown up with Payasam. Anyone’s birthday, any auspicious day, a feel-good day- Payasam was the only common dessert at home. My favourite was always the ‘Semiya Payasam’ which is Vineela’s own entry to the event. Payasam with rice was never one of my favoured ones. I wouldn’t even second glance it.
We call it Payasam, they call it rice pudding. Rice pudding surely sounds much more acceptable to me only for the reason that it’ll allow me to put in my own ingredients, use my usual crazy creative methods. These methods are no good to be messing around with traditional and respected recipes like ‘payasam’. Imagine turning the Gods against me if I added some untoward ingredients in it !!!
So Rum and Raisin Rice pudding it is…
Simple, rich and flavourful, serve it in a beautiful bowl and your guests will remember it for a long time…
Rum and raisin rice pudding
(Adapted from Ina Garten’s recipe)
Rum n Raisin Rice Pudding
Ingredients
Method
- Soak the raisins in the rum for a few hours.
- Combine rice and salt, and cook the rice in one cup of milk with saffron, by simmering for 7-8 min till most of the milk is absorbed. Or just pressure cook it in milk for one whistle till half-cooked.
- In the cooked rice, stir in the remaining milk, half the condensed milk ,sugar and boil till rice is very well cooked. This will take another 10-15 minutes.
- Stir in the beaten egg rapidly. It's ok if it curdles a bit, it will mix in well.
- Take the pan off the heat, add remaining condensed milk, vanilla extract, raisins soaked in rum. Stir well.
- Pour into a bowl and cover it with a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of pudding to prevent a layer from forming on top.
- Serve chilled with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
Wow! This is a really nice rice pudding recipe! I was in a supermarket today, looking at packs of pudding rice, thinking I’d like to jazz up a classic rice pudding …. you’ve done it for me! I’ll have to try this!:)
Looks really yummy! I’ll be trying this.
Hi Nandita,Nice idea of making rice pudding with extra ingredients. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Dianne and Glenna-I’m happy you liked this one, do let me know if you liked the end result as much as we did!Hi MT,Glad you liked it!
I always cook rice in milk for my payasam etc. I bet rum and vanilla adds that extra flavor to the pudding. Waiting for your Parsee dhansak recipe 🙂
Hey This rice pudding looks really good. I have had vanilla ice cream with rum and raisins and its my husband’s favorite. He will love this one too. nice entry for the event
Hi Nanditha,Yummy payasam with milk.Perfect entry for jfi.Thanks for your participation. I like your new look of your blog.Cake pudding and my favourite filter kaapi are excellent.Thanks for sharing.Vineela
Hi Nandhita,We had this karpoora valli plants in my grandmom’s house.and i know how we are fond of these bajjis whenever mom makes?Happy Krishnastami.it is one of my favourite festival. yOU bring back my memoriesVineela
Thank you all for your kind words! Vineela-thanks for noticing my little blog make-over. I like this much better than the dull blue and green and this goes with ‘saffron’ better , right? I haven’t hit upon the right look yet, but now that i know how to tinker with the code, will probably do some make-overs till i reach the best look 🙂
Nandita,I am not a fan of desserts but this is dessert sounds really good. I have to try it! I am sure my hubby will love you for it! 🙂
Hey PraveenaWelcome to saffrontrail! Im not a great fan of sweets, but this dessert is low on sugar and high on flavour, so I’m sure you’ll like it too 🙂
Sound super duper delicious.
Hey Nandita,The blog left me salivating!!Great work.Good luck with your restaurant.Anjana
Hey thanks Anjana-Good to see you here :)Your blog made me feel like putting on my backpack and shoes and getting away….