Non-Diary Sugar-free Rice Pudding [a way of finishing your unfinished grapes!]

[All the sugar is in the natural ingredients I used!] :D

So I completely made up this recipe as I went along, trying to use up my grapes which weren’t as fresh anymore. The measurements aren’t very exact because I was trying to make the best of what I had with whatever ingredients I had at hand.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups of green grapes (red might work as well, I just haven’t tried it…so if you do, let me know how it comes out!)
• ¾ cups of hazelnut milk (you might be able to use rice, almond or soy – though I think soy milk might leave a diff taste)
• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 1 cup of cooked white rice
• Handful of chopped raisins and/or dried cranberries

Start by blending grapes and hazelnut milk in a blender or food processor. You don’t need to make it very fine – you can leave some pieces of grape. 

Place the mixture into a medium sized pot and bring it to a boil, occasionally stirring. Put in your cinnamon and let the mixture boil for another 10 minutes or so (so the consistency gets a bit thicker).

Lastly, put in your rice and dried fruit and stir!

You can add more or less cinnamon and fruit – according to taste. Enjoy!

I improved this recipe by realizing some of my mistakes while going through the original process – so you won’t have to go through those pitfalls! To let you guys know what I did – I started by boiling grapes in hazelnut milk, thinking that if I just mash warm grapes, they will fall apart – which was NOT the case. I had to use to blender - so you can skip that initial step and just start with the blender! :D

Ways of improving for next time (things to consider while making your own batch!):
- Adding clove and/or nutmeg into the mix (more of a gingerbread-y taste!)
- Using sticky rice (it might make the consistency a bit thicker – more like pudding)

Once again, if you do this recipe and do it differently, please share and let me know how it came out!

And if my measurements don’t make sense, please feel free to correct me. I usually eyeball all my measurements.