Bananas Foster Rice Pudding

Satisfy your sweet tooth! This recipe puts a spin on traditional rice pudding, a simple dish that’s been around for generations and is often made sweet but also made savory in different cultures. Here, it’s topped with Bananas Foster, a dessert originating in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bananas Foster Rice Pudding

Course

Dessert
Prep time

10 Mins
cook time

40 Mins
servings

4
Author

@colleenncaptures

Ingredients

Rice Pudding

3½ cups whole milk
½ cup sugar
1 cup Lotus Foods Organic White Jasmine Rice
2½ tsp vanilla

Bananas Foster

3 tbsp butter
½ cup brown sugar
¼ cup banana liqueur
1 tsp cinnamon
3 bananas, sliced
2 oz dark rum

product used in the recipe

Organic White Jasmine Rice

1

In a pot, add milk and sugar and bring to a boil, then add rice and reduce heat to a simmer.
2

Stir occasionally and cook until thickened (~30-35 mins).
3

When rice is cooked, remove from heat, and add vanilla. Set aside and let cool or refrigerate.
4

For the topping, combine butter, sugar, liqueur, and cinnamon in a pan. When sugar caramelizes, add bananas, and cook until warm.
5

Add rum and use a lighter to ignite the alcohol. Be careful not to stand too close to the flame. Let the alcohol burn off.
6

When flame disappears, turn off heat and serve warm over rice pudding.