Rice Pudding Brulee Will Blow Your Mind!

Rice pudding on its own is an easy, inexpensive, and delicious dessert. It gets even better with a brulee topping and a graham cracker bottom. Chef and food writer Matt Degen shows how easy this is to make.

Rice Pudding Brulee Ingredients
2 cups rice of your choice, cooked
1.5 cups milk of your choice
1 egg
5 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
Crushed graham crackers to coat bottom of ramekins
White granulated sugar for topping

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If you’ve set foot in a grocery store or restaurant in the past couple of years you’ve noticed something food is expensive it seems breakfast lunch and dinner items are all more expensive now and even desserts haven’t escaped this culinary inflation now more than ever high value

Food items are in high regard in my household and when we’re talking about desserts one of them is rice pudding now on its own rice p is a classic comfort food that is oh so good but we’re going to take it to the next level today we’re

Going to give it a Brule topping that truly makes it Fire hello and welcome to I want to cook my name is Chef Matt and yes today we are making a rice pudding but a very very good one a rice pudding brulee now just in case you’ve never had rice pudding before it’s a classic desert and a very inexpensive one it’s usually made

With a combination of rice milk an egg for some thickness and there’s often some sweetness thrown in in the form of sugar maybe some cinnamon it’s very customizable down to the type of rice you use and even the type of milk that you want to use now there’s a couple

Ways to make rice pudding one way is on the stove where you combine uncooked rice and the milk along with the other ingredients and you just simmer it and simmer it until it gets nice and Incorporated kind of like a nice custard-like texture but my preferred

Method and the way that I’m going to show you today is a baked rice pudding in an oven and for this we’re going to use cooked rice so it does involve a little bit of planning just having some rice on hand which in my household we always do as someone who is gluten-free

Well I eat a lot of rice and even my dogs do incorporate it into their homemade meals now as for the type of rice well it can really be your choice you can use a wide variety now what works best is usually a medium grain white rice but in

My case I only had long grain white rice on hand so that’s what we’re going to use mine happens to be the enriched kind so it has some extra nutrients as well as for the milk here again it’s your choice traditionally you would use a whole milk for this but I enjoy using

Like an almond milk I think that gives it a nice flavor but you can use whatever you want soy milk hemp milk banana milk you name it anything’s going to work now rice pudding is good on its own but mine is better from top to bottom literally that’s because we are

Going to coat the bottom of our ramkin with a gram cracker crust and then the top oh the top we are going to Brule it so that it is a nice crispy sugary coating perhaps best of all this is so inexpensive to make this only cost

Pennies so let’s get into it okay if you can combine wet and dry ingredients and put it in an oven you can make rice pudding so here’s how we’re going to do this we’re going to use two cups of rice here and you just want to make sure that

Uh all the grains are kind of separated if there’s any clumps you know you can just kind of break those apart and again this is just some leftover white rice that I made the other day so boom there’s two cups of rice and by the way

I will put the full ingredient list in the description below so that’s our dry ingredients now we’re going to add our wet this is a cup and a half of milk in this case I am using some almond milk I’m also using 5 tsp spoons of brown

Sugar and a little bit of cinnamon it’s already starting to smell so good in here we’re going to use an egg just plop that right in and we can’t forget I love this stuff this is vanilla extract we’re just going to use about just about a teaspoon

Now what we’re going to do is mix everything all together until it is nice and Incorporated oh and I almost forgot the butter we’re going to add just a couple tablespoons of butter to this this is going to make some nice richness as well so get this all together now I

Had mentioned a graham cracker crust and to make that well I’ve got some graham crackers these are gluten-free kind cuz I’m gluten-free but you can use any kind you want put them in a zip top bag and we’re just going to crush them all until they become nice and crumbly and well

These hands these are the original food processor I like to make my rice pudding in individual ramkin you could make it in a larger uh casserole dish if you wanted but for these bruing well this is the way to go it also is easier to put these

Gram cracker crust right on the bottom just kind of layer it right in there so you get a nice coating okay I’ve got the graham cracker crust in my little La cruset ramkin here now we are just going to pour this mixture into each of them and we want to

Get about you know about the same in each cup so that everything Cooks nice and evenly if there’s a little bit more a little bit less that’s all right and if you like your rice pudding to have a little more or a little less liquid well

You can always vary the ratio of rice to liquid that is totally fine but I promise you however you make it it’s going to be delicious I’ve got my oven preheated to 3 25° and the beauty of this is that you don’t even need a big

Oven you can do this in a toaster oven so we are just going to put our ramkin right in here and as for cooking time it’s going to be between 25 and 40 minutes it really depends on your oven your ramkin a bunch of other things but

Just kind of keep an eye on it you really just want these to set and all that means is that when you kind of stick a knife in it it comes out and it’s not super gooey it’s you know pretty clean so we are going to let

These go for I’m going to say about 40 minutes and I will meet you back and then H then The Best Is Yet To Come Okay our baked rice pudding is out of the oven and again these would be fantastic as is you could even put a gram cracker topping on top but we are going to bring these to the next level because we are going to make these creme brulee Style with a torched top so what

We’re doing here is just as if we were making creme brulee we are going to sprinkle some white sugar right on top top of these you don’t need a whole lot just you know you want to make sure it’s mostly covered I advise using white sugar for this versus brown uh I find

That brown it can Scorch a little bit and kind of burn I think white sugar is really the way to go for this now comes the fun part we are going to take our torch here light it up and we are going to get torching just like this this is

So much fun and it makes kind of an extravagant showing but more importantly it makes it so delicious so all you want to do is kind of torch this sugar here until it starts to well kind of caramalized and you can see it just kind of kind of just catching here that’s

Exactly what you want this is how you make a Brule and we’re going to do this on the rest of these until this topping is nice and crunchy I mean come on look at this this is rice pudding like you have never had it before so we are just going

To break this up you hear that you hear that crunching that’s exactly what you want that is those sugar topping just kind of crunched up look at this it is just steaming Next Level so that is how to make not only rice pudding but rice

Pudding Brule I hope you give this a try and you enjoy it as much as I do I like to serve this warm if you have any leftovers you can put it in the fridge and then you can just kind of reheat it in the microwave whatever type of rice whatever

Type of milk you’re using I think you’re going to absolutely love this and best of all it is so inexpensive so please give this a try and let me know what you think okay trivia time last week I asked you to identify this strange device that

Is not a microphone and uh several of you got it right it is indeed a muddler and what you do is you use this to Pound Down herbs and things especially in drinks to kind of well bruise them up and release their Essences and make beautiful cocktails like Mojitos or

Fitos or the like so this is indeed a mudler for this week’s culinary trivia we are headed back to the produce section and what on Earth could this thing be it it kind of looks like one of those trolls doesn’t it well it’s not a troll and it’s definitely edible if you

Know the answer or you have a guess put it in the comments below I will of course let you know what this thing is in the next video as always thank you for watching thank you for subscribing until next time I hope you want to cook