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Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding + a Giveaway

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I always think of the slow cooker as something that should be used exclusively in the colder months, so I feel a little silly writing writing this post while basically melting from the heat. But, in my defence, when I pulled my Crock Pot out of hibernation last weekend to make this Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding, I was certain we’d seen the last of summer. 

Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding via Ricardo Cuisine and @ExSloth | ExSloth.com

I can count on one hand the number of times I used my slow cooker last fall and winter. I made a huge fuss about wanting one for so long, and when I finally got it, I had no idea what to make with it. Because of that, one of my foodie resolutions for this season was to use my Crock Pot as much as possible. So, when Ricardo Cuisine reached out to me about the Slow Cooker Favourites cookbook, I knew it was fated. 

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The cookbook features more than 65 slow-cooker recipes for busy people, vegetarians, meat lovers and even people who love their sweet treats – like myself. I’d never thought to make something sweet in the slow cooker before, so I was really intrigued by that last one.

Of course, I scoped out the slow cooker recipes on the Ricardo Cuisine website and had the irresistible urge to make the slow-cooked rice pudding. The last time I made rice pudding, it was this spiced apple & pear brown rice pudding, and I used the regular stove top method. I really enjoyed it, and plan on making it again this year, but I wanted to give slow-cooked rice pudding a try to see how it compared.
 
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I had to make a few changes to the recipe to for it to be dairy free, but it was definitely a success in my mouth eyes. This Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding is creamy, full of flavour without being overpoweringly sweet, and tastes just as good eaten warm or cold. I seriously cannot wait to try some of Ricardo’s other slow cooker recipes.

Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding
 
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This Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding is creamy, full of flavour without being overpoweringly sweet, and the perfect treat either warm or cold.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 cup short-grain rice (I used arborio)
  • ⅓ cup raisins
  • 1 cup full fat coconut milk/cream
  • 4 cups dairy free milk (I used a mix of boxed almond and coconut milks)
  • a pinch of salt
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • ⅓ cup coconut palm sugar
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp coconut extract
Instructions
  1. Add all ingredients except sugar and extracts to the slow cooker and stir
  2. Cover and cook on high heat for 2 hours
  3. Add the coconut palm sugar and vanilla and coconut extracts and stir until the sugar dissolves
  4. Serve warm or cover and chill for later
Notes
Adapted from Ricardo Cuisine

Vegan Slow-Cooked Coconut Raisin Rice Pudding via Ricardo Cuisine and @ExSloth | ExSloth.com

Win a copy of Slow Cooker Favourites

Ricardo Cuisine was awesome enough to offer one lucky reader a free copy of the Slow Cooker Favourites cookbook. Details on how to enter the giveaway are below. Good luck!

Note: You must have a mailing address in Canada to win

What about you?

  • Have you used your slow cooker yet for the season?
  • What’s your favourite slow cooked dish?
  • Have you ever made something sweet in a slow cooker before?

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Comments

    • haha I had my slow cooker for almost a year before I used it for the first time. Hopefully I can keep up the momentum, because it’s so great to wake up to a cooked meal after doing virtually nothing 😀

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    • I actually used my slow cooker more this summer – to make pulled meats – than I did in the winter. But, I almost always think soups/chili when I think of using the slow cooker so it’s naturally become a cold weather appliance for me.

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  14. Neither slow cookers nor crockpots are a thing over here so I’m always a little envious when people talk about recipes using them. The concept seems really neat.
    Rice pudding, however, is definitely known here and a childhood favourite. We usually had the basic version topped with cinnamon sugar but I like all the spices in this recipe!
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  18. Rice pudding always reminds me of my grandmother. She used to make quite a few of these in her day! I love the idea of making this in the slow cooker, much more doable for me! Thank you for sharing your recipe.

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  23. This recipe is impossible. 1 cup of rice to 5 cups of liquid? That’s not a pudding that’s a soup…
    Also, 2 hours in a crock pot on high to cook 1 cup of rice in 5 cups liquid is impossibly short.

    I tried the recipe as stated and when I discovered my large pot of soup with a small litter of relatively hard rice in the bottom I reviewed the recipe and it’s clearly bogus…

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