FoodTV Recipe - World's Best Rice Pudding 

      World's Best Rice Pudding
      Recipe Courtesy of Michelle Urvater
      2 tablespoons unsalted butter 
      1/2 cup medium or short grain white rice 
      4 cups milk 
      Pinch salt 
      Scant 1/2 cup sugar 
      1 teaspoon vanilla 
      2/3 cup dried cranberries 
      Variations: 1/2 cup heavy cream or 1/2 cup dark brown sugar mixed with 2 
      tablespoons butter
      Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Heat butter in a 4 quart saucepan. When 
      frothy add rice and cook for a minute. Slowly add milk, pinch salt, sugar, 
      vanilla, cranberries and bring to under a boil. Transfer to a 9 inch 
      square baking pan and set in oven. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2 hours stirring 
      every 15 minutes. Then bake undisturbed for 30 minutes. Then stir in 
      cranberries, stir and bake for another half hour (for a total of 2 1/2 
      hours). 
      Variations: you can to add heavy cream in the last half hour of baking. Or 
      if you want a crusty topping, reduce sugar to 1/4 cup. Once out of oven, 
      crumble brown sugar and butter over rice pudding and run the pudding under 
      the broiler until melted and bubbly.
      Yield: 6 servings
      Prep Time: 20 minutes
      Cook Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
      Difficulty: Easy





      Episode #: MF6673