Rice Pudding

Hannah's family has a tradition where at every family reunion the entire family makes all these different recipes of rice pudding. They are even so into rice pudding that they have a rice pudding song!Sounds like the most amazingly sweet family reunion ever. But unfortunately not for Hannah, as she can no longer partake in the festivities due to her whey allergy. Which is in all dairy products. NO Whey!!
Clearly this last bit of information must mean that after only 4 months of dating I was going to be taken to a family reunion. Nope, not going to her family reunion, I just needed inspiration for my next vegan food experiment. And so after hearing Hannah's poor story about never being able to have rice pudding again (I don't even remember why we were talking about rice pudding in the first place) my adventure to create vegan rice pudding began.
Not surprisingly enough, rice pudding is one of the easiest deserts one can make, not to mention the cheapest. For a normal rice pudding recipe all you needs is rice, milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and not quite as necessary but definitely makes it delicious, raisins. And after not so much searching on the internet I found out that it is still not very hard to make vegan rice pudding. This is the recipe I found...

Rice Pudding


2 Cups of Water
1 Cup of Rice
1 1/4 cups of almond milk
1/3 cup of raisins
1/3 cup of brown sugar or maple sugar
1 t of vanilla
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t ginger
1/8 nutmeg

In a saucepan cook rice. While cooked rice is still in the pan, add the remaining ingredients. Stir to combine and continue to cook on medium low until all the liquid have been absorbed. Serve hot or place in refrigerator to serve cold.

Simple as that! Not to mention delicious, and one could even argue healthy!

Hannah and I shared this recipe with friends at dinner and and informed one of Hannah's rice pudding fiend friends about our creation, promising to bring him some. But the pudding was just too good and none was left at the end of the night. I believe that we still owe that poor man some rice pudding. Perhaps we will have to bring this recipe back sooner than later.