Welcome to the Friday Club Carnival, a weekly carnival held here. This week’s Carnival is all about one-pot cooking and you’ll find links to other great recipes at the bottom of this post.
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I love this recipe because it’s quick to prepare, the children love it (tip: introduce this early on in the weaning stage so they grow up liking it) and it’s inexpensive. The downsides are that it takes a while to cook so you have to prepare it earlier than the rest of the meal and the dish needs a good soak before it will clean easily. Scroll down to the end for the full recipe.
Grease a large ovenproof dish, I use a 9 inch square one but pretty much any dish will do.
Add the pudding rice
and spread it on the bottom of the dish.
Add the sugar
then add your butter or margarine.
Add the milk and give it all a good stir.
Put in the oven at 150 degrees Celsius for about two and a half hours. Every half hour or so, give it a stir and add more milk or some water if it looks like it is getting a bit dry.
Serve it with jam
and tuck in.
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Tip: if you have cooked this for your baby and he/she likes it, you may find that you can disguise other foods in it. Here’s Edward as a baby eating his roast meal (something he hated) in his dessert. It doesn’t look very appetising but he ate the lot and then came back for more!
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Recipe – makes 6 portions
200g pudding rice
50g sugar (you can use less sugar if you want to, especially if you are serving it with jam)
tablespoon of butter or margarine
1.50 litres milk (approximately 2.5 UK pints or 5 cups). You may need a bit of extra milk (or you can use water) to add to the dish while it is cooking.
Grease a 9inch ovenproof dish. Add the pudding rice, sugar, butter and the milk. Stir it gently and put in the centre of a pre-heated oven at 150 degree Celsius for approximately two and a half hours. Stir regularly and add more milk (or water) if it looks like it is getting a bit dry. Serve with jam.
What’s your favourite one-pot dish?
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Here are the other entries in this Cooking carnival:
Helen at Cheeky Wipes gives us her one-pot Warm Lentil & Feta Salad Recipe.
Clare at Seasider in the City gives us her one-pot sausage casserole.
Cass at The Diary of a Frugal Family gives us the perfect pudding for winter, her one-pot rice pudding.
Nova at Cherished By Me posts her Herby one-pot chicken.
Jax at Making it Up posts her one-pot prime number vegetable stew.
Cara at Freckles Family posts her one-pot goulash.
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I’m linking this to My Simple Walk too:
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I love the idea of mixing in savoury foods for babies. Never in a million years would I have thought to do that, but the proof is in the eating (and the picture), eh?
Very proud to be taking part in my first Friday Club post, thank you.
Cx
Was thrilled you joined in Cara x
Oh I love rive pudding but have never made my own as I thought it would be rocket science. I will definitely be trying this recipe . . . will earn me some brownie points with my Hubby too
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It’s definitely not rocket science! You won’t find any of that in my kitchen!!
Funnily enough I made rice pudding last week for the first time in ages. I made a crucial error though and cooked it in a pyrex dish and then put a lid on.
What was I thinking??
It came out quite watery without that nice crusty skin but tasted fine. hey ho.
Yours looks lovely and I like your cunning plan of hiding the roast in it!
You may have hit on the perfect way of cooking it for those who don’t like the skin though!
If it was a bit watery there was probably just a bit too much milk to start with. I always start with less and add it during cooking if it starts looking a bit dry.
I am not a baby…..but I love (and miss) rice pudding (it’s not big in Italy……) – thanks fr the recipe – will definetly guie it a go!!
I love it too and I’m really glad my children like it, it gives me a good excuse to cook it!
Mmmm, I love home made rice pudding. I like the idea of hiding dinner in it, I’m not sure that Little M will be fooled now though..damn, I missed that trick!
No, you have to catch them early for that one!! (Edward doesn’t fall for it anymore though)
Ha ha – Great minds think alike x
Absolutely! x
Oooooh I’m so going to have to give this a go.
My fave one pot recipe is this Nigella one:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/one-pan-sage-and-onion-chicken-and-sausage-recipe/index.html
SO easy but oh so scrummy.
Thanks for sharing.
Heather
That looks really good, thanks for the link. Hope you enjoy the rice pudding!
Just popped by to say this reminds me soo much of being a kid myself. It was (and still is) one of my favourites but for some reason I’ve never made it.
Note to self: get hold of some pudding rice forthwith!
Before I made it myself I thought it was difficult to make when in fact it couldn’t be easier! Hope you enjoy it.
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