I. Will. Make. This. (I hope I have time tomorrow.)

[Luminous Animal]

Though, I don't have the salted caramel tea but soaking the rice in tea sounds like a great idea so I'll use plain black tea and make my own salted caramel sauce. And use unsalted butter in the pudding. Or maybe unsalted caramel sauce with a sprinkling of fleur de sel on top. Decisions. Decisions.

1 cup White Rice
2 cups Water
2 Bigelow Salted Carmel Tea Bags
2 cups Milk
2 Tablespoons Heavy Cream
1 Tablespoon Salted Butter
Pinch Of Salt
8 ounces Sweetened Condensed Milk, More If Needed
Dash Of Ground Cinnamon
1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
1 whole Egg, Beaten
Caramel Sauce

http://www.lifewiththecrustcutoff.com/salted-caramel-rice-pudding-americastea/?utm_source=BIGE004&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=SocialFabric

[HappyMe]

1. If you have green tea, maybe soak it in that.

I would be concerned that the black tea is too strong a flavor.

[Luminous Animal]

5. I'm thinking that black tea would be a-ok for soaking and then water for cooking

but it would be fantastic to cook the rice in green tea altogether.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I love green tea ice cream and mochi -- I'll have to try green tea rice pudding.

Surprising I haven't seen it in Indian cooking (kheer) yet.

OK, here we go ... http://17andbaking.com/2010/02/08/vanilla-bean-jasmine-rice-pudding/
print-friendly: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26592567/Vanilla-Bean-Jasmine-Rice-Pudding

[SheilaT]

2. Let me know when it's ready to sample. I'll be right over.

Oh, happy, happy, joy, joy to know people who make such delicious things.

What?? We don't actually know each other outside of DU and you're not about to let me know where you live? Oh, darn.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. When I first looked at the ingredients, I thought this would be hard, but no...

In fact.. crap! I was just at the store… Should have read this sooner so I could pick up the tea. I don't know that I'd even put carmel sauce. I just LOVE rice pudding.

Do you think bastmati would be a bad rice for this?

[Luminous Animal]

4. Basmati would be a great rice for this! And yes. I so like rice pudding.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. See the link I posted above -- jamine tea w/vanilla bean rice pudding, w/basmati rice. nt

[MrMickeysMom]

8. I was just there… Was this piece actually produced by a 17-year old?

Well… some souls are integrated with the art of cooking and writing. Very talented photography, also.

I have this very large bag of bastmati rice from my local Indian grocery store. I'm lucky in that there are many here.

I noticed that this shorter grain bastmati was NOT my favorite for the pilaf that I make, even after cooking it the way you should. I'm going to try the rice pudding. I also have been too cheap to buy vanilla beans! Maybe that's the next step.

Thank you, e_s_m!