Uncle Ben's Rice Pudding!

[gymnastjlf]

Okay, so when I first went gluten-free, I got excited about rice pudding (but since then I've been struggling with dairy products, so I haven't actually gotten to have the rice pudding! But I am starting to appreciate soy milk, so now I might get to have rice pudding again:-)).

I bought the box of Uncle Ben's Cinnamon and Raisins Rice Pudding. The ingredients listed on the package are:

Precooked long grain rice enriched with iron (ferric orthophosphate), thiamin (thiamine mononitrate) and folate (folic acid), sugar, raisins, corn syrup solids, modified cornstarch, paritally hydrogrenated canola oil, salt, xantham gum, spices (cinnamon, allspice), sodium caseinate, dipotassium phosphate, partially hydrogrenated cottonseed/soybean oil, mono and diglycerides, tricalcium phosphate.

So by the ingredients on the box, it looks as though it is gluten-free, correct?

A funny note about this product, if you go on Uncle Ben's website to look at the ingredients, it's certainly not gluten-free... it contains soy sauce (with wheat clearly labeled). HOWEVER, if you look more closely, according to the website, the rice pudding also has carrots, red peppers, and broccoli as ingredients! Obviously they have listed the wrong set of ingredients for the rice pudding:-P I emailed them, so hopefully they'll make the correction soon.

[tarnalberry]

Rice pudding's pretty easy to make from scratch. Just make sure to use short grain rice, and cook much like risotto to get the creamyness. You can use just water for this, or coconut milk, or another milk substitute. Usually, you add sugar and spices as well. (I've made coconut mango, vanilla, and pumpkin flavors that are tasty. The coconut mango recipe is in the recipes section under the "As Promised, A Few Recipes" post.