Creamy Coconut Milk Rice Pudding

Who wouldn’t love Creamy Coconut Milk Rice Pudding? What a great way to use up that leftover rice. You can have it for breakfast, that’s what we did, or dessert or for a snack. Its pretty healthy and of course yummy, kids like it too! A winner all around.

Now this recipe is so easy to make, just grab that leftover rice (any type will do), add in the remaining ingredients into a bowl, mix it up and put it in the oven. The cool thing is you could eat it cold too, your choice.

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Creamy Coconut Milk Rice Pudding

This recipe is super simple and super delicious. Get creative and add or take away ingredients to suit your taste. Cooking really is more of an art than a science. A few basic ingredients and you are good to go.

What you’ll need for your Creamy Coconut Milk Rice Pudding

3 c cooked rice (I used organic brown rice, most any rice would work)
1 can coconut milk (I used full fat, light would be good too)
2 T maple syrup
1/4 t cinnamon
1/8 t nutmeg
1/2 t minced ginger
1/3 c raisins

Extras to add more flavour and nutrients:

Banana or Blueberries (really any fruit would do)
Hemp Heart or Sunflower Seeds

How to make your Creamy Coconut Milk Rice Pudding

Pre heat oven to 400°
Either cook up a batch of your favourite rice or grab some leftover rice from the fridge
This is organic brown rice. You could use any type of rice that you enjoy.
Put your rice in a medium sized mixing bowl and make sure the rice is not in a bunch of clumps, if it is break them up as much as possible
Put all the other ingredients in a separate bowl and mix together well –
Combine all of the ingredients, except the rice, into a bowl and mix it up well.

coconut milk, maple syrup, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and raisins
Pour your coconut milk mixture over the cooked rice and mix well
Spoon the final mixture into one oven proof casserole dish or smaller ramekins. This will make about 4-6 ramekins (small oven proof bowls)
Mix the wet ingredients with your rice and stir up well. You can eat this uncooked if you like. Super yummy and delicious.
Now remember you could eat it as it is, it will be delicious and everything that needs to be cooked, is cooked
If you want them cooked, place in the oven, I put the small bowls inside a cake pan to they don’t topple over in the oven or just in case they bubbled up too much
Bake until starting to brown
I put my pudding in individual servings or you can bake it all in one oven proof dish. Your choice.

a bit on top, just golden, about 20-25 minutes depending on your oven
Take out and serve hot or cooled down
I added in some sliced bananas and hemp hearts to bump up the flavour and protein, you could leave plain or add in your favourite toppings
If you were making for a dessert and you really

I made them for breakfast, what a great way to start the day, or you can have them for dessert, for an after school snack for the kids. Just put the leftovers in the fridge and you can either reheat or I just like to eat them cold. So delicious!