Sunday , June 13, 2010
Cosmic Coconut Pudding! Vegan Goodness For The Unearthly Sweet Tooth
(L to R: Hallie readies herself for pudding interface; Cosmic Coconut Pudding!, with nutmeg; new Faben family member Ivan asks, "Where's my pudding, dudes?")
Not so very along ago I made a joke about vegan pudding - it was in our Ultimate Beatles Dating Guide, and I was poking fun at Paul and Linda McCartney's meat-eschewing hippie-dippie ways. But vegan pudding is no laughing matter! Vegan pudding is srs biznis, as evidenced by some amazing delightfulness recently whipped up our trusty recipe developer Hallie Faben (the genius behind nogoodforme's booze-soaked summer tea party, plus our dome-blowing coconut milk-basil-lime popsicles, samosa salad, and vegan Thai pesto slaw). It's a Mark Bittman-inspired take on traditional rice pudding, and we're christening it Cosmic Coconut Pudding! in tribute to Cosmic Coconut Coffee! (i.e. the exclamation LJ and I exclaim when we think the same thing at the same time). It's super-simple and just the thing for a cold winter's night when you're all curled up with your monster-feet slippers and chubster kitty-cat (or, maybe, a real sleek and svelte pup like Ivan there).
Here's the recipe, which makes about three or four bowls, depending on the ferocity of your sweet tooth.
COSMIC COCONUT PUDDING!
-1/3 cup white rice (preferably sushi rice, for optimal gooeyness)
-two 14-ounce cans of coconut milk (we used Trader's Joe's light coconut milk, but full fat works too)
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 teaspoon salt
1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Dump all the ingredients into a medium-sized baking dish, then stir everything together till it's thoroughly mixed.
3. Bake for two hours, stirring every 30 minutes.
Two hours is a long time, so make sure you've got a fun way to distract yourself from your pudding excitement. Hallie and I, for instance, drank two pots of jasmine green tea and came up with a really rad world-domination idea I'm going to share with you at a later date. And those two hours flew by, and the Cosmic Coconut Blissfulness! was so worth the wait. Btw, Hallie tells me you can dress the pudding up a little by adding chocolate chips (which will melt nice and oozily), banana slices and lime, mango, berries - or whatever floats your boat.
Oh and do bookmark Hallie's just-launched and adorably named blog Umami Tooth, which promises to be endlessly chock full of so much foodie inspiration and wonder. Gudden appetit to all!
Tags: blogs we love, Cosmic Coconut Coffee, food, Ivan, monster feet slippers, Paul McCartney, srs biznis, sweets, tea, vegan pudding, winter, world domination
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mmm that looks lush; might have to make it!
jenn.x
By jenn. on February 23, 2010 3:55 PM
it's very lush indeed, and super-filling. do it!
By Liz
on February 24, 2010 12:00 PM
instead of coconut milk, here, at Peru, we use regular milk and it's still delicious!
=)
By vero on February 27, 2010 9:36 PM