Comfort Food - Past, Present and Future Recipe
Ingredients
- Soy Milk Rice Pudding with Drunken Figs
- (adapted from Food and Wine, October 2009 - here's the original recipe)
- 1 cup boiling water
- Pinch of sea salt
- ½ cup Arborio rice (or if you are feeling granola crunchy hippy happy, use round brown rice â to be found at a health food store)
- 2 cups plain soy milk
- 3 tablespoons Demerara or Turbinado sugar
- 8 small dried figs, quartered
- 2 tablespoons of Calvados (or Applejack)
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Recipe | %DV |
|---|---|
| Recipe Size 884g | |
| Calories 714 | |
| Calories from Fat 75 | 11% |
| Total Fat 8.46g | 11% |
| Saturated Fat 1.29g | 5% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 406mg | 17% |
| Potassium 1143mg | 33% |
| Total Carbs 139.61g | 37% |
| Dietary Fiber 8.5g | 28% |
| Sugars 49.01g | 33% |
| Protein 21.61g | 35% |
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