- 3 cups whole milk
- 1/4 cup SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup raisins or mixed dried fruit
- 2 tablespoons rum or orange juice
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- Pour milk, SPLENDA(R) Granulated Sweetener, and vanilla into a medium saucepan. Add cinnamon stick. Bring to a boil. Add rice and salt. Cover and cook over low heat 30 minutes or until most of the milk is absorbed. Stir occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat. Set aside.
- Place raisins (or mixed dried fruit) and orange juice (or rum) in small microwaveable bowl. Warm in a microwave briefly to plump the raisins. Add plumped raisins (or mixed fruit) to rice pudding.
- Spoon into dessert dishes. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Serve warm or chilled.