The Basics: How to Make Rice Pudding
From the store to the kitchen to the table: We outline the steps that get you from raw ingredients to your dinner tonight, free of measurements and complicated techniques. It’s a method you’ll remember and whip out whenever you like. It is the most basic way to make the thing you’re making.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- • a medium saucepan
- • a quart of whole milk
- • a cup of uncooked white long-grain, white short-grain, or Arborio rice
- • a handful of granulated sugar
- • a pinch of salt
- • optional: a quarter teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract, chopped nuts, dried fruit, a dash of cinnamon, a dash of nutmeg, brown sugar, honey, or any combination of these

