Coconut Rice Pudding with Tropical Fruit Compote

Rice pudding seems to be a very divisive dessert – there are those who are traumatized by memories of rice pudding at school, and wouldn’t dream of letting it pass their lips, and those, like my mother, who adore it – skin and all – for the childhood comfort it evokes. This one is made with coconut cream as opposed to dairy, which not only makes it vegan, but which also makes it into something rather more sophisticated than classic rice pudding, especially when served chilled.