Lennies Ultimate Rice Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Heat the butter in a 4 quart saucepan. When frothy, add the rice and cook for 1 minute. Slowly add the milk, pinch of salt, sugar, vanilla and 1/2 of the cranberries and bring to under a boil. Transfer to a 9-inch square baking pan and set in the oven. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2 hours, stirring every 15 minutes, then bake undisturbed for another 30 minutes. Then stir in the remaining 1/2 of the cranberries and bake for another 30 minutes (for a total of 2 1/2 hours).
• Variations: you can to add heavy cream in the last 30 minutes of baking. Or if you want a crusty topping, reduce sugar to 1/4 cup. Once out of oven, crumble brown sugar and butter over the rice pudding and place under the broiler until melted and bubbly.

Steps:

• Place rice, salt, and water into a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat; sprinkle with sugar and pour in milk. Stir with a whisk until until the thin layer of cooked-on starch at the bottom of the pan is cleared and incorporated into the mixture, 2 or 3 minutes.
• Place pan over medium heat, stirring frequently, until it reaches your desired of level of doneness and creaminess, 8 to 10 minutes. The longer it cooks, the thicker and stickier it will be. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and cinnamon. Very quickly whisk in the egg yolk (to prevent it from cooking). Whisk for about 1 more minute. Add butter and dried cherries; stir thoroughly.
• Transfer warm pudding to serving dishes. Cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, 3 to 4 hours.

Steps:

• In a saucepan heat water, milk, and salt. When liquid is almost boiling stir in rice and butter.
• Bring to boiling, immediately reduce heat and simmer, covered, over VERY low heat for 35-40 min (stirring every 5 min)until all the liquid is absorbed.
• Transfer rice into a large bowl.
• Scrape vanilla seeds into cream in saucepan and heat just until boiling.
• In a bowl whisk yolks and sugar and mix with heated cream (quickly, so it doesn't curdle).
• Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, for 5-7 min, until mixture coats a metal spoon.
• Pour 1 cup of hot sauce into rice and stir to blend (if using vanilla extract add now).
• Transfer remaining sauce to a bowl and refrigerate (tightly cover with plastic wrap).
• Chil several hours and before serving, stir remaining sauce into rice.