Rice Pudding (Instant Pot)

Rice pudding is a delicious and easy to make dessert recipe. Make the best creamy, old fashioned rice pudding recipe quicker and easier using a pressure cooker or Instant Pot. This recipe for the best pressure cooker rice pudding is comfort food at its best.

1½ cups Arborio rice
¾ cup sugar
½ tsp. sea salt
5 cups 2% milk
2 eggs
1 cup half and half cream
1½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup raisins

In the Instant Pot, combine rice, sugar, salt, and milk.

Select Sauté function and bring contents to a boil, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar. As soon as the mixture comes to a boil, cover and lock lid in place.

Select Manual or Pressure Cook function on the Instant Pot and adjust to low pressure. Set cooking time for 16 minutes.

While rice is cooking, whisk eggs with half and half and vanilla. When beeps sound, turn off pressure cooker, wait 10 minutes and then use a quick pressure release. Carefully remove the lid. Stir the rice in pot.

Stir the egg mixture in to the pot. Select Sauté and cook uncovered until mixture just starts to boil.

Turn off pressure cooker. Stir in raisins.

Serve immediately, or pour into serving dishes cool then chill. (Pudding will thicken as it cools, so you may want to add a little extra half and half if you're serving it cold.)

Makes 8 servings.