World's Best Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Worlds Best Rice Pudding 

This recipe is creamy and yummy. I like it so much that I double it. 

2 tablespoons unsalted butter 
1/2 cup medium or short grain white rice 
4 cups milk 
Pinch salt 
1/2 cup sugar 
1 teaspoon vanilla 


Instructions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Heat butter in a 4 quart saucepan. When butter is frothy add rice and cook for a minute. Slowly add milk, pinch salt, sugar, vanilla, and bring to under a boil. Transfer to a 9 inch baking pan or casserole and set in oven. Bake uncovered for 1 1/2 hours stirring every 15 minutes. Then bake undisturbed for 30 minutes. Stir again and cook undisturbed for 30 more minutes. Total time 2 1/2 hours. Variations: you can add heavy cream in the last half hour of baking. Or if you want a crusty topping, reduce sugar in recipe to 1/4 cup. Once out of oven, crumble brown sugar and butter over rice pudding and run the pudding under the broiler until melted and bubbly.