ARBORIO RICE PUDDING, Vanilla & Chocolate - TWD
Tuesdays With Dorie's Aborio Rice Pudding
Thanks to Isabelle of Les gourmandises d’Isa for picking Arborio Rice Pudding for this weeks Tuesdays With Dorie dessert. You can find the recipe for ARBORIO RICE PUDDING on pages 412-413 in Dorie Greenspan's book, Baking: From My Home To Yours, or by clicking on Isabelle's blog. She has the complete recipe there. Isabelle comes from Québec, Canada, and at first glance, you would think the recipe is given only in French. You need to scroll down the page to bring you to the English version of the recipe.
Chocolate & Vanilla Rice Pudding!
The recipe for Arborio Rice Pudding is really easy to make. Just a few ingredients - rice, sugar, milk and vanilla or chocolate - makes a creamy and luscious pudding. We both loved the rice pudding very much. I made both varieties, chocolate and vanilla. I had a bar of Green & Black's Espresso Chocolate and figured that would make an ultra rich pudding. I was right, it was extremely rich!
Lake Champlain Chocolates
I also had some Lake Champlain Chocolates that I used in the pudding. I received these awesome chocolates from Leann at LCC last month to review. After I did my "chocolate tasting", I saved a few pieces for something special. (I'll be sharing the photos and results of the LCC tasting very soon!) The milk chocolate made an even better and more delicious rice pudding. Just a quick note on Lake Champlain Chocolates - In my opinion, I truly believe Lake Champlain Chocolates to be the very best chocolates I've ever tasted. I know, I know, just because I lived in Vermont for 10 years doesn't make them the best chocolates in the world. You might have a different opinion. But, I know they are, and that's all that matters!
Dorie's Recipes
There was a lot of confusion and ruined recipes this time around. Bakers were feeding their hard-earned pudding to the trash compactors and compost heaps! Horror stories were being told of rice soup and liquid goop. It seems that Dorie's recipe had a MAJOR typo in it! If you do have your own Baking: From My Home To Yours cookbook, PLEASE read this before you set out to make Arborio Rice Pudding!
Recipe Changes
Dorie's original recipe states that the amount of rice is 1/4 cup. That is wrong. Change that to 1/2 cup. And, the cooking time is also wrong. It is 50-60 minutes, not 30. I am soooo glad I checked into the forums BEFORE I started the recipe. In the end, it was everything she said it was - delicious, creamy and ultra-rich. I'll make it again and again...with the new revisions!
Your rice pudding looks perfectly creamy and yummy.
Posted by: pinkstripes | November 18, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Wow! Looks fantastic! I love all the chocolate you used!
Posted by: food librarian | November 18, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Your rice pudding looks delicious - and that chocolate looks divine. I wish I would have read the forums first, although I used 1/2 cup aborio rice instead of 1/4 cup, I doubled the milk as well and my rice pudding came out runny although it was still good!
Posted by: Liliana | November 19, 2008 at 03:44 AM
Your rice pudding looks so delicious and creamy - and that chocolate! I also used 1/2 cups arborio rice, but double the milk as well so my pudding came out runny. I should have read the forum before I made the pudding!
Posted by: Liliana | November 19, 2008 at 03:50 AM
WOW it looks oh so creamy and inviting!!! the chocolate is incredible. why oh why, I feel like I'm missing out now! :(
NICE work!
Posted by: Eunice | November 19, 2008 at 09:56 AM
I knew about the longer cooking time but I didn't realize that the rice needed to be doubled. Darn!!
Posted by: Natalie | November 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Wow, your pictures are amazing! Glad you enjoyed the pudding!
Posted by: Tracey | November 19, 2008 at 02:37 PM
Wow! I am really amazed by these great pics and the wonderful shout out to our chocolates! Thank you so much for not only such a great review and kind words but just the visual of our organic truffles next to your beautiful rice pudding, one of my favorites!! You totally made my morning with your great pics. So glad you've been enjoying the chocolate. We've got some new things up our sleeves we hope to have ready late Spring. I'll be sure to sent them along to you for your review. Happy Holidays!!!
- Leann, Lake Champlain Chocolates
Posted by: Leann | November 20, 2008 at 05:31 AM
I'll take one of those chocolates and your gorgeous rice pudding!
Posted by: Shari | November 20, 2008 at 02:34 PM
It looks like your pudding turned out perfectly! Mine was a little soupy the first time, but it still tasted great. I remade it anyway and it was even better. Yum!
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Posted by: Satria | November 21, 2008 at 02:36 AM
lovely pudding!
Posted by: Jaime | November 27, 2008 at 06:47 PM