‘Tis the season to make rice pudding! Isn’t it great how rice pudding is so universal? Every culture seems to have their own version of this dessert! I think that’s why rice pudding is a comfort food dessert for so many people. Let me tell you how this creamy peppermint rice pudding came to be. I make rice pudding all the time and it’s almost always Indian rice pudding (kheer) which is different in both flavor and consistency than this recipe (my kheer recipe is in my cookbook Indian Food Under Pressure and it is sooo good). I decided that I wanted to share an American version of rice pudding so I came up with this peppermint rice pudding! It basically tastes like candy cane flavored rice pudding and it’s delicious!
My peppermint rice pudding is made with just a handful of ingredients – it couldn’t be a simpler recipe. Really, go check out the ingredients list. There’s no condensed milk in this recipe and there’s also no need to try and whisk an egg into the pudding (curdled egg is the worst! trust me, before this peppermint pudding I tried to make eggnog rice pudding and let’s just say that recipe requires quite a bit more testing…). My point is, you likely have all of the ingredients that you need for this simple recipe in your pantry – with the exception of peppermint extract and candy canes. And actually – you can honestly leave both out of those things out of the recipe and it’ll still be good – though you’ll want to flavor it with something else if you decide to do that. I mean, otherwise you can’t really call it peppermint rice pudding… yes, sometimes I like to state the obvious. Like, right now. I know most people like to eat rice pudding after it has chilled, but I prefer it hot or warm (I prefer my kheer warm too). Roby, my husband, will only eat rice pudding if it’s cold. How do you like your rice pudding? Team warm or team cold?! Serve this treat over the holidays for dessert or make someone’s morning and serve it for breakfast! Happy Holidays, y’all!
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