Tesco Pudding Rice

I often make my own rice pudding. It is a healthy desert to eat and it is very easy to make. All you need is the rice, some sugar and milk and perhaps some cinnamon or nutmeg. However, I have usually only used normal white rice, that is, whatever rice was in the cupboard (usually long grain) and handy to use. I wasn't aware that you could buy pudding rice until I came across a bag of this during my most recent trip to Tesco. Tesco Pudding Rice seems to be of a reasonable quality. There were no black bits in the bag I bought. This rice like all rice should be well washed before cooking. Some people cook the rice directly in the milk. I always cook the rice ...  Read the complete review

There was a stage when I thought that pudding rice had become a thing of the past, I was having such a job to find any anywhere. I suppose it is all down to supply and demand and lets face it not everyone counts pudding rice as an essential part of life. As more and more intricate desserts fill our chilled cabinets in the supermarkets it is easy to pick up a luxury ready made rice pudding (at a price mind you!). Maybe homemade rice pudding are being phased out in favour of the lighter and often healthier desserts. I always wash my rice in a sieve before putting it into a greased oven proof dish. Two ounces of pudding rice needs a pint of ...  Read the complete review

Most people now buy their rice pudding ready made. This much has been made clear to me by things such as the way the nice girl in Tesco's stared at me in complete confusion when I asked where their pudding rice was kept. I have to wonder WHY however, when even the cheapest tin of rice pudding is 38p for a 425g tin and you can buy a whole 500g bag of pudding rice for 58p. I can only imagine that they're scared it will be hard to make, but rice pudding remains one of the simplest deserts someone can put together. Gather around, and I shall tell you its secrets! To make rice pudding enough for 2-3 people, you first need only 50g of pudding rice. Yes, that is only ...  Read the complete review