When you think of rice, the first images that spring to mind are usually spicy and savoury dishes. But my favourite rice based dish as always been rice pudding. I used to enjoy making this with my mum and then passing the recipe on to my children. I needed to microwave basmati rice up with a version that could be done in the microwave but that tasted just as good as the oven or stove cooked rice version.

My Version of Microwave Rice Pudding If you want to turn rice into a dessert, rice pudding is the way to go. It’s healthy and comforting, and so easy to make that you can cook it up in the microwave. Rice pudding is often made as a leftover dish, taking what is left from a meal with rice and mixing it with a few ingredients from the refrigerator to make a portion of rice pudding. If you have a bit of rice left in your fridge that you aren’t sure what to do with and you don’t feel like having it with your dinner, try turning it into rice pudding using a simple microwave rice pudding recipe I have for you. There are tons of recipes for rice pudding, and since it is served just about everywhere in the world, there are going to be a lot of local versions no matter where you go. Let’s stick with the old fashioned rice pudding microwave recipe here that most people in the West know of. Microwave rice pudding recipes are typically made using short grain rice, but you could even use basmati for it if you wanted to.

It just wouldn’t be the traditional way to make it. Any short-grained rice will work for this dish, but there is actually a special kind of rice known as pudding rice that is ideal. It’s shorter and rounder than your typical rice grain, and when you cook it, it becomes perfectly creamy so that it works very well for rice pudding. You can try our puffed rice recipe by following the guide here and maybe test how this works too. For this recipe you will need to prepare and cook the rice before hand. Rice does not cook well in a microwave.

That’s why this recipe is great for leftover rice from savoury dishes. Please refer to our how to guide below on how to prepare rice for making rice pudding. The best type of rice for rice pudding is either pudding rice or short grain rice. Taste after 10 minutes of cooking and further season to taste. The following ingredients are great for toppings on your rice pudding.