Tropical Rice Pudding
Our slimming friendly Tropical Rice Pudding is a perfect indulgent dessert, whether you're following Weight Watchers or calorie counting!
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NutritionPer Serving
- Calories344
- Carbs73g
- Protein6g
- Fat0.1g
- Saturates0.01g
- Sugars2g
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There’s something super comforting about rice pudding. It’s creamy, sweet and delicious – what more could you ask for? Our Tropical Rice Pudding is all of those things but with a little hint of sunshine thrown in!
We love the combination of coconut and tangy passionfruit in this recipe, but if you’re not a fan then you can add any tropical fruit that you like instead! Mango or pineapple would also work really well.
Any pudding rice will work well in our Tropical Rice Pudding, but we find that Arborio rice cooks quicker and gives a really creamy texture!
What diets is this Tropical Rice Pudding suitable for?
This Tropical Rice Pudding is suitable for dairy free, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan diets.
Please make sure to double or triple check all of your ingredients if you’re cooking for people with allergies.
Do you need any special ingredients to make this Tropical Rice Pudding?
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We use Sukrin 1 which is an all-natural granulated stevia sweetener alternative to sugar with zero calories.
Sukrin 1 doesn’t have that strange aftertaste that a lot of artificial sweeteners do! It also shares the exact same sweetness and weight to sugar – which makes it really easy to substitute in recipes like this Tropical Rice Pudding.
If you’re using a powdered sweetener, then please check how it compares to sugar. In some cases you’ll need to use less, as powdered sweeteners weigh less.
That being said you don’t have to use Sukrin – there are lots of other high quality granulated sweeteners available from the supermarket, such as Canderel Sugarly, and Natvia.
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How many calories are in this Tropical Rice Pudding?
There are 344 calories per portion in this Tropical Rice Pudding, which means it falls into our Everyday Light category.
This Tropical Rice Pudding is perfect if you’re following a calorie controlled diet and fits well with any one of the major diet plans such as Weight Watchers.
As a guide, an average man needs around 2,500kcal (10,500kJ) a day to maintain a healthy body weight. For an average woman, that figure is around 2,000kcal (8,400kJ) a day. Obviously, if your goal is to lose weight then you might want to adjust these slightly! You can read more about these recommendations on the NHS website.
Step 1
Add the rice and milk to a saucepan on a low heat. Cut the vanilla pod in two and scoop out the seeds, adding them and the pod to the saucepan. Cook for around 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until the rice is tender and creamy.
Step 2
Once cooked, stir in the sweetener and the juice and zest of the lime.
Step 3
Serve immediately topped with one half of the scooped out passion fruit on top, and one half to garnish.
What could I serve with this Tropical Rice Pudding?
This Tropical Rice Pudding works really well when served after the following main and accompaniments:
How do you know when this Tropical Rice Pudding is cooked?
You’ll need to cook your Tropical Rice Pudding for around 20 minutes or until the rice is tender and the dish is creamy.
Standard advice here in the UK is to cook food until it has reached 70°C and stayed at that temperature for 2 minutes. This is to keep your family safe.
How long can you keep Tropical Rice Pudding in the fridge?
Once you’ve put this dish out you should eat it within an hour.
If you allow any leftovers to cool, make sure to refrigerate in a container with a lid and chill. You can keep leftovers of Tropical Rice Pudding in the fridge for a day.
As we all know you can get food poisoning from eating reheated rice, but, it’s not actually the reheating that can cause issues, it is, in fact, the way that the rice has been stored beforehand where the problem begins.
Rice can contain spores that are resistant to heat and can survive the cooking process.
If cooked rice is left standing at room temperature these spores can grow into bacteria. At this point, the bacteria can be destroyed by reheating the rice thoroughly.
You should remember to do the following if you’re going to keep leftover rice:
- Cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) then put it in the fridge immediately. You can split larger portions up into smaller batches to cool quicker.
- Reheat and use any leftover rice (stored in the fridge) within one day.
- When you reheat any rice, always check it is steaming hot all the way through.
- Don’t reheat cooked rice more than once.
Can I freeze Tropical Rice Pudding?
No, we wouldn’t recommend freezing this recipe.
How do I reheat Tropical Rice Pudding?
From chilled: Place in a microwave proof container with loosely fitting lid and heat for 4-7 minutes until piping hot.
For more information about reheating rice please take a look at the NHS website.
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Tropical Rice Pudding
Our slimming friendly Tropical Rice Pudding is the perfect indulgent dessert, whether you're following Weight Watchers or calorie counting!
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Prep Time
5 MINS
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Cook Time
20 MINS
- KCals 344
- Carbs 73G
Instructions
- Add the rice and milk to a saucepan on a low heat. Cut the vanilla pod in two and scoop out the seeds, adding them and the pod to the saucepan. Cook for around 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until the rice is tender and creamy.
- Once cooked, stir in the sweetener and the juice and zest of the lime.
- Serve immediately topped with one half of the scooped out passion fruit on top, and one half to garnish.
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HelenFriday 28th September 2018
Can I use skimmed milk instead of coconut milk please ?
Emily JonesSunday 29th April 2018
Can you freeze this recipe?
Thank you.
CeriMonday 2nd April 2018
I’d like to try this for breakfast. Do you think it would keep in the fridge ok if I made 4 portions and had it over 4 days?
Rachel BidderSunday 4th March 2018
Hi, I have made this several times – its delicious! However, I do agree with Susan, the quantity of liquid versus arborio rice isn’t right. I made it this afternoon with 200g of arborio rice and it was perfect. You may need to adjust (decrease) the amount of lime and sweetener accordingly.
NicolaSaturday 3rd February 2018
Could you make this in the slow cooker?
SueTuesday 30th January 2018
Hi there. What can be used instead of a vanilla pod ..? Thank you.
Orla RourkeSunday 28th January 2018
this sounds ridiculously delicious! I will be making it for brekkie some day!
Susan SteeleSunday 28th January 2018
I really like this. I have made this twice now and each time I have to add a lot more liquid?
Laurina DennisSunday 7th January 2018
Making this for dessert after Sunday dinnet
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