Rice Pudding with Chocolate Sauce
Instant rice and powdered milk cooked down thick, with a chocolate sauce stirred in the same pot.
- calories
- 620
- weight
- 4.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 138
- protein
- 14 g
- serves
- 1, scales
- prep
- 3 min
- cook
- 10 min
- total time
- 13 min
- water
- 400 ml boiled
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- Breakfast
- Canister stove
- Liquid fuel
- Alcohol / Esbit
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Backpacking
- Winter / snow
- Vegetarian
- Gluten free
- One pot
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Basic
Ingredients
| Instant white rice | 1/2 cup | the precooked kind, not raw rice |
|---|---|---|
| Whole milk powder | 1/4 cup | |
| Sugar | 2 tbsp | |
| Sliced almonds | 2 tbsp | |
| Salt | a pinch | |
| Cocoa powder | 1 tbsp | |
| Powdered sugar | 1 tbsp | dissolves in the sauce without grit |
| Butter powder or a pat of butter | 1 tsp |
Method
- Mix the cocoa, powdered sugar, and butter powder in a mug or the pot lid with 2 tbsp of hot water. Stir until it is a smooth sauce and set it aside.
- Bring 400 ml of water to a boil. Dump in the rice, milk powder, sugar, and salt.
- Stir constantly for a minute so the milk powder does not scorch on the bottom.
- Cut the heat, cover, and wait five minutes. Stir again. It should be thick, not soupy.
- Pour the chocolate over the top and scatter the almonds. Eat warm.
The original is a baked rice pudding: raw rice simmered slowly in fresh milk, thickened with eggs, then finished in an oven. None of that survives a trail kitchen. Instant rice and whole milk powder do the same job in ten minutes on one burner, and the eggs go away completely — the starch coming off the rice is what thickens this, so you do not need them.
Make the sauce first, in the lid or a mug, while the pot is still cold. Chocolate mixed into boiling milk seizes into lumps, and once it does you are not getting it back. Keep stirring during that first minute on the flame too. Milk powder sticks and burns faster than anything else you will cook out there.
Packing
Rice, milk powder, sugar, and salt in one bag. Cocoa, powdered sugar, and butter powder in a second, smaller bag. Almonds ride separately so they stay crisp.
Variations
- Skip the milk powder and use coconut milk powder for a dairy-free version.
- Add a spoonful of instant coffee to the sauce for something closer to mocha.
- Leave the almonds out entirely if nuts are a problem; the pudding does not need them.
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