welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen today we're going to do a little
bit of a cheater recipe we're gonna make an eggnog
rice pudding using left over rice so I've got some some leftover rice here
it was either make this pudding or fried rice and I kind of felt like the pudding
today so put the rice into the pot already cooked doesn't really matter
what kind of rice you're using now we need a cup and a half of eggnog that
goes into the pot and then we need about the same again in milk and higher fat
milk is better than low-fat milk the cheat here is that the eggnog already
has eggs and cream in it and we're gonna play on that egg mixture
not only for flavor but those eggs will help thicken the pudding so just give
that a stir now in goes some sugar and depending on how sweet your eggnog is
you can play with the amount of sugar you may not need as much stir that in
now I've got this on sort of a medium-high I want to bring this up to a
boil and while the temperature is coming up I'm going to add just a touch of
vanilla extract and grate in some nutmeg now there's one last possible ingredient
and that is either rum or whiskey depending on your personal tastes you
could use either one I'd like to put whiskey in this but I know that the
eggnog I have already had rum in it so I'm gonna add just a touch more rum not
much just enough to give a little bit extra flavor now for the people out
there who are saying I don't want to put rum in it because I can't give that to
my children that's fine you can leave the rum out but I'm going to tell you
that there was actually more alcohol in the vanilla extract that I put in here
than there was in the rum that I put in so judge yourself accordingly we're just
going to give this a stir we're gonna bring this up to a boil and then we're
gonna turn it down to a simmer and we're gonna let this simmer until almost all
of the liquid of operates and it thickens up into a nice
fine pudding so now I'm gonna portion it out and you don't have to I mean you
could put this all in one casserole dish stick it in the fridge chill it down and
serve it by scooping it from the casserole dish or you could put it in
ramekins and you can choose the size of ramekins that you want so each dinner
guest gets their own so without spilling too much and making
too much of a mess let's see if we can do this conventional food television
wisdom the Gospel according to Martha tells us that we need to take plastic
wrap wrap these individually and press the plastic wrap right up against the
rice pudding so that it doesn't form a skin as it cools down in the fridge I'm
on team skin I kind of like the skin that forms at the top of the pudding so
I don't do that but if you want to do that go right ahead you take the plastic
wrap and you push it right up against it now we stick these in the fridge for an
hour or two to chill and firm up before we serve them hey Jules Hey
eggnog rice pudding oh well that makes sense
I left yours on the counter so it's warm you look like rice pudding warm I like
my rice pudding cold I do I like all my custards so as much as I said put it in
the fridge you could leave it out you could serve it warm you could put it in
the microwave and heat it up that would be why do ice you could pour a little
bit of cream over top of this you could pour a little bit more eggnog as you
serve it mmm and a little bit of the eggnog and it would sort of amp up that
that creaminess to it now I haven't seen the recipe is there a rum or sherry
already in it there's a little bit of rum in it okay I put that on top as well
so let's go to taste first before we add anything we're adding things to
something we haven't tasted never a good plan I like that
it's definitely eggnog forward mm-hmm the rum flavors there but it's nice and
soft I wanted to maybe put whiskey in mmm but my preference but the eggnog
that we bought has a rum in it already oh I didn't want to that conflict so
depending on what you buy for eggnog you didn't make right from scratch I did
not make my pots we have a link to it below a full recipe
list of making eggnog from scratch so you can check that out and then there's
the conflict of raisins versus non raisins I'm I'm not on Team raisins my
boy team raisins I would put raisins in it because you know rum and raisin that
would work soak em in rum toss them in if you like raisins in your rice pudding
which I do put them in I probably should have put some in for Julie but I didn't
know usually only make things you like so there's bias and so this was this was
a cheat using leftover rice of course you could cook the rice ahead of time
and just put it in the fridge so that you make leftovers there's so many ways
to make yeah and it's really creamy even though I
didn't put an egg in because the egg is already indie okay dog yeah yes
so serving suggestions a little bit of eggnog on top when you go to serve it
may be a great of nutmeg when you go to serve it maybe a sprinkle of cinnamon
when you go to serve it and if you don't have you don't have one big pot and you
just do one big pot and scoop it up family-style this is pretty good I like
this thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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