This almond milk rice pudding is the perfect vegan, gluten free and guilt free dessert to put together this fall! Incredibly easy to make, this sweet treat takes just 6 ingredients and a few minutes of kitchen time to put together.
Enjoy it after dinner on a cold fall night, or warm it up and have it as a nice, comforting breakfast.
I’m a big sucker for desserts and sweet dishes that are easy to make, and quite recently, I have been trying my hands at dairy-free and gluten-free recipes too.
This vegan rice pudding totally ticked both the boxes, and turned out to be a big hit in my household along with our all time favorites- the 3 ingredient blueberry cobbler and baked yogurt cups.
Quick Look: Almond Milk Rice Pudding
- 🔪 Prep time: 5 minutes.
- ⏲️ Cook time: 25 minutes.
- 👪 Servings: 2.
- 📋 Main ingredients: Unsweetened almond milk, white rice, maple syrup, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, and chopped nuts.
- ♨️ Cooking method: Rinse the rice 🡢 bring almond milk, cinnamon and vanilla to a boil 🡢 add rice and simmer until cooked, stirring regularly 🡢 mix in maple syrup 🡢 cool slightly and top with chopped nuts.
- ⭐ Difficulty: Easy.
- 🥣 Serving ideas: Enjoy warm or chilled as a dessert or comforting breakfast, topped with toasted almonds, pistachios, other nuts, or fresh fruit.
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What's So Great About the Recipe?
- My favorite part about this almond rice pudding is its simplicity.
- It is a total comfort food for me with its fall spiced flavors, and I get to indulge in something that’s sweet, but I still don’t feel guilty about it. It is a total win-win situation.
Recipe Ingredients
Almond milk: You’ll need to start off with some unsweetened almond milk.
Rice: I like to use short grain rice for a rice pudding. It just gets that perfect texture when it is cooked.
Vanilla extract: Just a few drops of vanilla extract can bring a nice subtle flavor into the pudding.
Maple syrup: I used a dash maple syrup as the sweetener for this almond milk pudding.
Ground cinnamon: Ground cinnamon lends some beautiful fall flavors into the mixture. You can use allspice mix too if you want to.
Chopped nuts: Use any chopped nuts of your choice. This adds a wonderful texture to the creamy pudding.
See recipe card for quantities.
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Substitutions & Variations
- If you don’t have ground cinnamon, consider adding a couple of cardamom pods into the milk while it is boiling to bring in another layer of flavor.
- Raisins can also be a great addition to this dairy-free and vegan rice pudding in addition to the other nuts that you’re using.
- To bring in some more fruity and sweet flavor, you can also add a dash of rose water into the rice and milk mixture. Lavender extract and almond extract work wonderfully too.
- If you don’t have vanilla extract, you could use a vanilla pod instead. Just remember to remove the vanilla before you serve this plant based pudding.
How to Make Almond Milk Rice Pudding
In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, add the milk, cinnamon and vanilla extract and bring to a boil.
Turn down the heat and add rice and cook for about 25 minutes, making sure you stir every 2 minutes until the rice is fully cooked.
Add the maple syrup into the cooked rice and give it a good mix. Allow to cool slightly, portion it out and top with chopped nuts.
💭Top Tip
Don’t forget to add a pinch of salt into the rice towards the end. This will help enhance the flavors of this vegan dessert.
Tips & Tricks to Nail the Recipe
- You can use any sweetener of your choice to sweeten the pudding. I used maple syrup, but you could use regular white sugar or cane sugar too.
- To make this pudding more thick and creamy, you can also add some dairy-free cream into it towards the end.
- The cooking time for this dairy free and vegan dessert depends on the kind of rice you’re using. You’ll need to use your best judgment for this one.
- To make sure the pudding is nice and thick, start off with about 1 cup of almond milk and keep stirring the rice while cooking it. Once the milk is absorbed, add more milk and continue stirring. Do this until the rice is completely cooked, but not too mushy.
- Wash the rice well, ideally until the water runs clear. This will help remove any excess starch that causes the rice to get mushy.
- Remember not to use high heat while making this dessert, or you’ll end up with the rice getting stuck to the bottom of the pan.
- You’ll also want to use a good quality, heavy bottomed saucepan for this recipe.
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How to Serve Almond Milk Rice Pudding
This rice pudding with almond milk makes for a great breakfast or dessert, especially during the later months of the year.
You can enjoy it as is, or go the extra mile and experiment with different toppings too.
The best part is, you can enjoy this creamy rice pudding both hot and cold.
To bring some extra crunch factor to the pudding, use toasted almonds and pistachios as the toppings. In fact, you could also try using other nuts like walnuts and candied pecans if you want.
Fresh fruits also make for a great topping to go on the pudding. If you’re using berries and citrus fruits, you might want to skip the cinnamon and just stick to a plain vanilla flavored pudding.
Troubleshooting & FAQs
You can make this recipe with almost any kind of plant-based milk of your choice. Coconut milk, cashew milk, rice milk, oat milk and almond milk are my top favorites, and of course, you can always use regular milk too, if you aren’t vegan.
You sure can! Just remember that brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice, so you’ll need to keep that in mind while you’re making this pudding.
If you have any leftovers, you can cover them up with some cling wrap and refrigerate them for up to a day, if not more.
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Almond Milk Rice Pudding
Ingredients
- 3 cups unsweetened almond milk
- ¼ cup white rice uncooked
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon chopped nuts
Instructions
- Start by rinsing the rice well with water until the water runs clear.
- In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, add the milk, cinnamon and vanilla extract and bring to a boil.
- Turn down the heat and add rice and cook for about 25 minutes, making sure you stir every 2 minutes until the rice is fully cooked.
- Add the maple syrup into the cooked rice and give it a good mix. Allow to cool slightly, portion it out and top with chopped nuts.
