I grew up loving all versions of rice pudding, including this healthier Brown Rice Pudding and old-fashioned Baked Rice Pudding. This is a great easy and inexpensive recipe to use up leftover rice of any variety, and it’s easy to adapt to make it sweeter (add more sugar), leave out the raisins if you don’t like them, and replace the milk with dairy free alternatives. If you love this dessert, try my Sticky Toffee Pudding!
How to Make Brown Rice Pudding:
- Bring the water and brown rice to a boil in a saucepan.
- Add salt, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 35 minutes. Remove from heat (keep covered) and allow to rest for 10 minutes before fluffing with a fork.
- Stir in the milk, evaporated milk, sugar, and cinnamon.
- Simmer uncovered, stirring often, for 40-50 minutes, or until the dish is pudding consistency. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and raisins.
Recipe Variations:
- Slow Cooker Brown Rice Pudding: Cook the rice, then add the ingredients to a slow cooker and stir to combine. Cook on LOW for 4 hours, stirring occasionally until thick.
- Vegan Brown Rice Pudding: Replace the milk with soy or almond milk and use coconut milk in place of evaporated milk.
- Sugar Substitute: use honey or maple syrup instead.
Consider trying these popular desserts:
- German Chocolate Cake
- Snickerdoodles Bars
- Mississippi Mud Brownies
- Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake
- Mrs. Fields Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Recipe
Brown Rice Pudding
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup uncooked brown rice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 6 ounces evaporated milk , or substitute half and half or cream
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ - 1 cups raisins
Instructions
- Bring the water and brown rice to a boil in a saucepan.
- Add salt, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 35 minutes. Remove from heat (keep covered) and allow to rest for 10 minutes before fluffing with a fork.
- Stir in the milk, evaporated milk, sugar, and cinnamon. Simmer uncovered, stirring often, for 40-50 minutes, or until the dish is pudding consistency.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and raisins.
Notes
- Slow Cooker Brown Rice Pudding: Cook the rice, then add the ingredients to a slow cooker and stir to combine. Cook on LOW for 4 hours, stirring occasionally until thick.
- Vegan Brown Rice Pudding: Replace the milk with soy or almond milk and use coconut milk in place of evaporated milk.
- Sugar Substitute: use honey or maple syrup instead.
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I originally shared this recipe May 2014. Updated January 2021.
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I made this recipe for my partner, as he was reminiscing about his mother’s recipe and he’s been so supportive during a difficult time I’m going through. He bought brown rice (as I like it better), so I had to find a recipe different than the one I was going to use since it takes longer to cook.
I’m so glad he/I did. This is incredible. I used brown sugar instead of white, a bit more than the recipe called for. It has a slight caramel flavor that I love. I was burning my tongue “taste testing” it, while it was still cooking.
And my partner says it’s just like his mothers (can there be any better review?!)
Thank you.
Tastes wonderful and has a chewier consistency than white rice, which I prefer. Didn’t have evaporated milk, used coconut milk and it came out great. Used maple syrup, chopped dates, raisins and walnuts. It turned out so much better than I expected.
Question: How long does this dish stay edible in the the fridge and do you recommend reheating when serving? My husband doesn’t like cold rice even in pudding, strange I know 😁
Can stevia be used instead of the granulated sugar?
Oops…making this now.
I added the vanilla already instead of at end. Will it make a difference?
It will be fine! Enjoy.
Thank you for all that good info! So interesting and so it girl! Not one I’ll be trying, but this Rice Pudding I can’t get enough of. Exactly per the recipe! Perfect.
Except I did swap the rice for spinach. And never sugar….
What is your serving size per 266 calories?
I just use Brown rice and I never put in salt nor sugar of any kind. I just put in sultanas and let it marinate overnight in the fridge. By next day it’s sweet enough for our family.
I tweaked by using a 398ml can of coconut milk and about a half cup of cow’s milk- wondered how the surfeit of coconut milk would taste and it ended up beautifully. I also added a cardamom pod and omitted cinnamon. I used short grain “sticky” brown rice and it didn’t need close to 40 mins to simmer- I did it almost like risotto, stirring almost constantly. Anyway thanks for the inspiration!
So, you didn’t use the recipe.
Excellent recipe – thank you! That is the best tasting rice pudding and healthier due to the brown rice. I swapped the semi skimmed and evaporated milk for whole milk because that is all I had and it still worked perfectly.
I just tried making rice pudding for the first time this evening. This was an excellent recipe and quite delicious! Many thanks.
I doubled the recipe and it worked out very well. I slightly tweaked the recipe by adding more cinnamon and vanilla, but that’s only because I love those two ingredients lol.
My biggest tip for anyone cooking brown rice is to soak it in water first. It’s easy to put dry rice into a fine mesh strainer, lower it into a pot of water, and ensure the rice is covered. Leave it for about a half hour or so, then drain well before cooking. Since I started using this method my rice always turns out perfectly.
I love rice pudding! Thanks for the recipe! And a note to the commenter about breakfast – I grew up eating rice pudding cold for breakfast, and still like it that way! I prefer to leave the raisins out since I don’t care for cooked raisins, but will often top my cold rice pudding with craisins and chia seeds, or raspberries!
Hello, have you tried this recipe or similar one in Instapot? I am trying to come up with another alternative to oatmeal breakfasts for my kids (they said they are sick of oatmeal every day :). So I would make it in the am and was wondering if it’s possible to somehow cook rice pudding within 30 min in an instapot. Thank you in advance.
I haven’t tested this recipe so I can’t advise for sure. I’d love to hear if you try it!
Yummy and healthy! Great recipe, thanks.
I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever had brown rice pudding?? I don’t think I have! Now I’ve got a recipe – I need to try it. Thanks!
MMMMMM.. added to my recipe book.