Me Want Pudding!
One day last week, this chocolate-covered vegan woke up with a sudden urge to make rice pudding. So she rose groggily from her bed, put on her bunny slippers, and ambled down to the kitchen. Soon the counter was piled high with pudding ingredients—cinnamon, raisins, soymilk, vanilla… now where was the rice? The chocolate-covered vegan searched the shelves, pushed aside boxes, lifted bags, stomped her feet, and pulled her hair, but all to no avail (especially the last two actions).
“How can we not have rice?!”
The chocolate-covered vegan asked her two dogs (who liked to hang around the kitchen in case crumbs ever dropped). Unfortunately, the doggies could not provide an answer about the rice. The chocolate-covered vegan sighed and was turning to leave the cabinet when, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted that kindly, white-haired Quaker man in the big blue hat staring back at her.
Hmmm. I wonder…
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Katie’s Oatmeal Raisin Pudding
2 cups milk of choice
2 servings already-cooked oatmeal (i.e. start with 80 grams, or about 3/4cup, uncooked)
1 to 2 tsps cinnamon
1 1/2 Tbs pure vanilla extract
up to 1 cup raisins
Optional: up to 1/4 cup sweetener of choice (I don’t think it needs any, but when I made this for my mom, I used 1 Tbs sugar for 1/2 of the recipe.)
This is so easy: Combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Then turn down to low heat for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until pudding is the desired consistency. Cooking the oats twice makes them even fluffier and gives the recipe a real pudding-like taste.
The recipe makes 2-4 servings, depending on how big the eater’s appetite is and whether the pudding is being consumed as a meal or a snack.
New favorite breakfast!
Along with the famous Voluminous Oatmeal Method, this is now one of my top 2 favorite ways to prepare oatmeal.
Oh man… I’m so going to make this – I have oats cooked right now! Bet if you hand-blendered it it’d be good too!!
2 to 4 servings? Nah, looks like 1 to me. 😉 Love all your oatmeal variations – you can come be my oatmeal magician any day Katie!
Wow ! What a beautiful photo. My mom used to serve rice pudding with chocolate chips on top. I’d venture to think this would work here too. Have a great V-day CCK, don’t forget, your bloggers are your friends, at least I am.
Looks great!! But technically – it’s just the raisins added to oatmeal right? I kept thinking there was something different here! Looks delish though 🙂
No, the “trick” is that you use PRE-cooked oats. In other words, cook the oats up first, THEN follow this recipe.
OH! So you mean just cook oats like normal (actually I confess – I use instant alot …don’t judge please 🙁 ) – and then re-cook it with these instructions? So – how does it change the taste then…?!! This is boggling 🙂
Exactly! It makes the oats fluffier, as I wrote in the post. It’s just like rice pudding… only better.
I just made this tonight. So so good, with a heaping spoonful of maple almond butter on top.
thanks, this will definitely be on repeat often
also used steel cut oats. i wonder what this will taste like with oat bran or other kinds of oats. i may even try this with millet. the possibilities are endless!
Ooo I love your idea to try it with oat bran!
This looks great. How much liquid do you typically use to cook the oats for the first go-round? I use a ratio of like 7/8 cup water:1/2 cup oats when I make oatmeal, but I don’t know if that would still work well with this?
Hmmm… When I cook the oats the first time, I usually use a little over 1 cup of liquid for one serving of oats in this recipe (but I microwave the first time). I don’t think you can go wrong; your amount sounds fine too! 🙂
This sounds wonderful! I just bookmarked the recipe so I can try it! Thanks so much for the great idea! 🙂
You’re very welcome. I hope you like it!
This sounds great! Do you think it would work for a single serving? If so how much should I cut the cook time/ingredient amounts? I usually like a small serving since I usually exercise midday or in the evening- therefore my breakfast doesn’t need to be my fuel/refuel meal most of the time.
Keep the same cook time, but cut all the ingredients in half :).