Black Rice Pudding

Name: Black Rice Pudding
Cuisine: Balinese
Ingredients: ½ pandanus leaf, split along its middle rib and tied in a loose knot; 500 ml water; 250 g black sticky rice; 400 ml coconut milk; 80 ml coconut cream; 125 g palm sugar; 175 ml water, extra

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire

By Christine Manfield

Published 2008

About

This is one of those dishes that works just as well for breakfast with fruit as it does as a dinner dessert. I particularly like it with custard apple segments that have been gently poached in coconut milk.

Ingredients

250 g black sticky rice
500 ml water
½ pandanus lea

Asia
Indonesia
Dessert
Dinner
Breakfast
Gluten-free
Vegan
South East Asia

Method

Rinse the rice under cold running water, place in a saucepan with the water and the pandanus leaf and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes until the rice has absorbed the water. Remove from the heat, cover and leave the rice to steam for about 10 minutes or until cooked. Remove the pandanus leaf.

Place the palm sugar and extra water in a saucepan, bring to