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Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding

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Creamy Rice pudding made using 3 kinds of milk and a secret ingredient to make it taste something you will want to keep eating! 

Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding

It’s a rice pudding kinda day today you friends. Sorry for getting little late in posting today’s amazing recipe . I was travelling today all day and I had written the post earlier in the day but somehow it got erased. I know such a bummer. I just sat down thinking I have my post ready and all I needed was to give it a quick check and post. But I was in a surprise. All the written stuff was gone and I was left with pictures only. Well enough of my sad story. Lets talk about this pudding and the reason you guys are here.

Tray of Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding

This rice pudding is based on the concept of tres leches cake. Tres leches cake is basically a sponge cake made up of three sorts of milk usually condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. So I kept the concept of using 3 milks here and instead of cake used it to make a rice pudding. Here I used coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk and 2% milk and a secret ingredient to make this so so creamy & delicious pudding.

Yummy Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding

I had no idea how it will taste when I started making this pudding. When we started eating it after dinner, I was told that it resembles a lot to our favorite rice pudding we always get at our favorite mediterranean restaurant. The secret ingredient is “rose water” and it makes it surprisingly good. I know you might be thinking what? I mean it’s sort of spanish & meditteranean flavor fusion but I must tell you that it goes along perfectly.

Ready to Eat Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding

If you have a bottle of rose water lying around, try adding few drops before serving as the staring point. You will love it.

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Coconut Tres Leches Rice Pudding
 
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup arborio rice or any short grain rice
  • 1 can sweet condensed milk (14 oz can)
  • 1 can full fat coconut milk ( 13.5 oz can)
  • 1-2 cups 2% fat milk
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Few tbsps of rose water (Optional but seriously delicious)
  • Few tbsps of shredded coconut for topping
Instructions
  1. In a pot, add arborio rice along with around 3 cups of water and cinnamon stick. Bring it to a boil and simmer on medium-high heat until the rice is cooked through. We want the rice to be soft.
  2. Now once rice is cooked, if there is still water remaining strain or while cooking, if it starts to get dry add some more water. Discard the cinnamon stick.
  3. Now transfer the cooked rice to a big pot and add all three kinds of milk. Cook it on medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes. After that turn off the gas and it will seem very liquidy but don't worry. Once you keep it in refrigerator to chill for few hours, you will see that rice will absorb all the milk and it will turn into a thick consistency.
  4. It tastes best when served chilled with some rose water and toasted coconut.
  5. *For toasting coconut, simply toast coconut in a pan until golden.
Notes
Keep the pudding covered with plastic wrap. It stays good for upto 10 days when kept chilled.

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  3. Hey Ami!! Rice pudding looks delicious..The pics are so awesome 🙂 The little cups that you used for serving are so cute!

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  7. Rice pudding brings back such good childhood memories. My mom used to make it at least twice a month, and I loved it! This looks so delicious and inviting. Love the pretty purple flowers. 🙂

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  12. Looks sooo delicious! I love nearly all and every kind of rice pudding 🙂 I know rice pudding is made with arborio or short grain rice but all I have is a long grain right now… would that work??? I REALLY wanted to make it today and not run to the store! 🙂
    Thanks….

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    • Yes it will work Jessica!! Actually I have made rice pudding with long grain rice too and it turns out amazing. What I would suggest is after rice is cooked, smash it with a fork so it breaks down and then proceed as the recipe says!! Looking forward to hearing back how you liked it!!

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      • Hi, I made the rice pudding and we are in love!! Absolutely delicious and will probably most definitely not be going back to another recipe! My hubby loved it and said that he would rather eat mine than one at a restaurant :-O It seems so much lighter and cleaner on the palate than the other recipes that we tried. Maybe that sounds weird?? But, thanks for sharing and definitely a winner in our house! ♡♡♡

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  15. Looks creamy and rich..what to try for my kids birthday party.how many cups for rice do we need for 50 people?
    Thank you

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    • Hi Sai!! This is our favorite rice pudding and so happy to hear that you are planning on making this for your kid’s birthday party 🙂
      Sai every ones portions are different. In my case this recipe fed 8-10 of us as everyone in my family loved it so they went for second servings 🙂
      I would say 5-6 times of this recipes should be good enough for 50 people but if you have the time and party is still far away, then I would suggest make the recipe by following it exactly and then see how much you guys eat so you know how much will be good enough for 50 people. As if you have lots of kids in these 50 people, there proportions will be way smaller as compared to adults 🙂 Hope this was useful and do let me know how it turns out! 🙂

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