Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding With Tart Cherries

Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding With Tart Cherries
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This delicious recipe puts a creative spin on rice pudding by incorporating cherries, maple syrup and vanilla bean. Recipe courtesy of Amanda Paa, heartbeetkitchen.com, provided by Choose Cherries. 
Prep Time
20
minutes
Cook Time
1.23
hours
Servings
6
servings
Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding with Tart Cherries
Total time: 1.57 hours
Ingredients
  • 1/3 cup and 2 tablespoons jasmine rice
  • 4 cups 4 cups of whole or 2% milk (do not go less than that in terms of fat)
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup one vanilla bean, seeds scraped out
  • 1 and 1/2 cup frozen montmorency tart cherries, thawed
  • 3 tablespoon of tart cherry juice from thawing
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
  • 3 tablespoon water
  • 1 tablespoon tapioca starch (or cornstarch)
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 315 degrees F.
  2. In a large gratin dish (holds at least 6 cups), combine rice, milk, maple syrup, salt and seeds of vanilla bean.
  3. Stir to combine and set vanilla bead pod on top.
  4. Bake for 25 minutes, stir.
  5. Continue baking for 20 more minutes, then stir.
  6. At this point there will be a bit of skin that you can just stir back in.
  7. Cook until the rice plumps and starts to become a more noticeable part of the mixture and the skin becomes more visible and darker, about 30 minutes more.
  8. Take the dish out and set it on the counter.
  9. You will see that once it sits, even though you don’t think it’s done, it will start to sink in and thicken just from this short test.
  10. Then put it back in the oven and low broil for 3 more minutes, until you get some brown spots on top.
  11. Take out and let cool for at least a half hour.
  12. Then serve with saucy cherries.
  13. While the rice is baking, make the cherries.
  14. Add frozen tart cherries, honey, tart cherry juice, and black pepper.
  15. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer for 15 minutes, stirring as you go so the cherries don’t stick to the bottom.
  16. Then dissolve the tapioca starch in water, and stir into mixture.
  17. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, until thickened.
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