Roasted oranges make this dessert scrumptious and your gradual cooker makes it tremendous straightforward to whip up!
Take the fuss out of a basic dessert through the use of your gradual cooker for this Orange Tapioca Pudding.
(This recipe initially was posted on Wholesome Aperture.)
I haven’t had tapioca pudding in many years however the current bubble tea development has me craving for it as soon as once more.
As a toddler of the ’70s, tapioca was a dessert staple in my home – I’m positive we had it a minimum of as soon as a month. The recipe was no fuss – cooked on the range with milk, sugar and vanilla – nevertheless it did take time.
So, once I just lately stumbled throughout a gradual cooker tapioca pudding recipe, I used to be decided to make it once more in any case these years. (Facet word: my gradual cooker is often gathering mud within the basement however I’ve resolved to attempt to use it extra this 12 months.)
Take the fuss out of this basic dessert: Gradual Cooker Orange Tapioca Pudding @tspbasil Click on To Tweet
Winter is citrus season – however fortunately, the oranges this time often look fairly good. But when they don’t roasting them – as I do right here – is an ideal approach to carry out the pure sweetness. It additionally provides yummy orange caramel flavors.
Similar to with greens, roasting fruit brings out deeper, candy taste and is a scrumptious approach to make any dessert a bit more healthy. I really feel in love with roasted oranges again once I made this Roasted Orange and Asparagus Grilled Romaine Salad.
For this recipe, I used Cara Cara oranges, that are a kind of navel orange with brilliant red-orange flesh, a candy, barely tangy taste and no seeds. I reduce them into small wedges, roasted them after which chopped them up so as to add to the pudding on the finish of the cooking time.
You don’t must cease with roasted oranges. Pears, apples and grapes are all divine when roasted and could be swapped in for the oranges on this recipe. And now that it’s summertime, strive roasting up some peaches, plums or apricots for this new nostalgic dessert of tapioca.
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Roasted oranges make this dessert scrumptious and your gradual cooker makes it tremendous straightforward to whip up!
- 3 cups reduced-fat milk
- ½ cup small pearl tapioca
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 medium oranges
- Coat gradual cooker with cooking spray. Add milk, tapioca, sugar and vanilla. Zest one orange (save flesh for the pudding) and add to the gradual cooker. Stir all components collectively. Cowl and prepare dinner on LOW for two hours.
- Whereas tapioca is cooking, preheat oven to 400 levels Fahrenheit. Slice the oranges into wedges (8 wedges per orange.) Place, pores and skin aspect donw, on a baking tray coated with cooking spray. Roast for 20 – 25 minutes till skins begin to look burnt. Take away from oven and let cool. Lower off skins and discard. Chop up orange flesh.
- After 2 hours, whisk in orange flesh (tapioca combine will nonetheless be skinny.) Cowl and prepare dinner on LOW for one more Half-hour. Flip off gradual cooker and let sit (lined) for 20-Half-hour earlier than serving to permit pudding to thicken.
Did you develop up consuming tapioca like I did? Have you ever ever made it at dwelling?
