Any Rice Pudding Experts?

[happily single]

I cook for friends/family upon request. I recently had a request for rice pudding with crushed pineapple!
My Go To rice pudding recipe is the standard one where you cook the rice on low with milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.

Imagine my surprise when I was researching recipes with crushed pineapple to see that they ALL use cooked rice, with heavy whipping cream and crushed pineapples with a tiny amount of sugar and no vanilla. What is really throwing me is the cooked rice.

Does anyone:
1. Have a pineapple rice pudding recipe that doesn't use heavy cream and cooked rice?
2. Do you think I could just add the crushed pineapple to my finished cooked rice pudding?

 

[princesscinderella]

I cook for friends/family upon request. I recently had a request for rice pudding with crushed pineapple!
My Go To rice pudding recipe is the standard one where you cook the rice on low with milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.

Imagine my surprise when I was researching recipes with crushed pineapple to see that they ALL use cooked rice, with heavy whipping cream and crushed pineapples with a tiny amount of sugar and no vanilla. What is really throwing me is the cooked rice.

Does anyone:
1. Have a pineapple rice pudding recipe that doesn't use heavy cream and cooked rice?
2. Do you think I could just add the crushed pineapple to my finished cooked rice pudding?

I love rice pudding and I think cooking it with the pineapple would ruin the consistency of it. I have had it both ways where its cooked with the milk, sugar or made after the fact with already cooked rice. I think I would go with the cooked rice recipe adding the crushed pineapple, squeezing it to minimize the juice and heavy cream. You could also do half heavy cream/half condensed milk to give it more sweetness and a thicker consistency and skip the added sugar. I don't see why you couldn't add a little bit of vanilla to the mix too if it's your preference.

 

[barkley]

I love rice pudding and I think cooking it with the pineapple would ruin the consistency

that would be my concern as well-pineapple weeps when it cooks.

I do the old school recipie-no heavy cream (regular milk) but cooked rice with everything else blended in and cooked double boiler style in the oven (thank goodness for having multiple sizes of casserole dishes).

 

[DodgerGirl]

My grandmother loved to make rice pudding when my mom was growing up and she passed on her recipe to Dad because he loves rice pudding. But I never have heard of people putting pineapple chunks in rice pudding because when my grandmother would make it she always put cinnamon and raisins in her rice pudding. But Dad likes rice pudding and could eat a lot of it if he could

 

[hardcorestitch]

I cook for friends/family upon request. I recently had a request for rice pudding with crushed pineapple!
My Go To rice pudding recipe is the standard one where you cook the rice on low with milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.

Imagine my surprise when I was researching recipes with crushed pineapple to see that they ALL use cooked rice, with heavy whipping cream and crushed pineapples with a tiny amount of sugar and no vanilla. What is really throwing me is the cooked rice.

Does anyone:
1. Have a pineapple rice pudding recipe that doesn't use heavy cream and cooked rice?
2. Do you think I could just add the crushed pineapple to my finished cooked rice pudding?

You could do the latter… just drain out any excess liquid from the pineapple if you’re using a canned pineapple. If you’re doing fresh pineapple, no need to drain… just cut it fresh and toss it in.

 

[happily single]

My grandmother loved to make rice pudding when my mom was growing up and she passed on her recipe to Dad because he loves rice pudding. But I never have heard of people putting pineapple chunks in rice pudding because when my grandmother would make it she always put cinnamon and raisins in her rice pudding. But Dad likes rice pudding and could eat a lot of it if he could

He said crushed pineapple. I always put cinnamon, but not raisins.