Puddings

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Queen of Puddings

Queen of Puddings is breadcrumb custard baked beneath a jam layer and soft meringue.

🇵🇪Peru

Quinoa con Leche

A Peruvian dessert of quinoa cooked in milk with cinnamon and cloves, similar to rice pudding but with Andean grain.

🇮🇳India

Rabri

रबड़ी

Milk is repeatedly reduced and scraped from the pan with sugar, cardamom, and nuts into thick rabri.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Rag pudding

Rag pudding is an Oldham suet pastry parcel filled with beef and onion gravy, traditionally steamed.

🇵🇪Peru

Ranfanote

Ranfañote

Colonial-era bread pudding with toasted stale bread, walnuts, pecans, currants, pisco, and cheese, drenched in chancaca syrup.

🇨🇳China

Red Bean Soup

红豆汤

A sweet Chinese tong sui of red beans simmered with rock sugar, dried tangerine peel and sometimes glutinous rice balls, served warm.

🇩🇪Germany

Red Berry Pudding

Rote Grütze

North German dessert of red berries thickened with starch, served with vanilla sauce or cream.

🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands

Red Grout

Danish-influenced dessert made with guava fruit boiled with sugar and tapioca to a gelled firmness; served with sweet cream, though Cruzans prefer canned milk flavored with sugar and vanilla; traditionally served on Transfer Day, March 31, commemorating the 1917 transfer from Denmark.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Rhubarb Crumble

Sharp rhubarb baked under a rubbed-in topping of flour, butter and sugar until the fruit bubbles up through the crust.

🇦🇷Argentina

Rice Pudding

Arroz con leche

Argentine rice pudding of rice, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes lemon zest or vanilla. A classic home dessert, served warm or chilled with a dusting of cinnamon.

🇩🇰Denmark

Risalamande

Danish Christmas rice pudding folded with whipped cream, vanilla, and almonds, served with hot cherry sauce.

🇳🇴Norway

Riskrem (Rice Cream)

Riskrem

A Norwegian Christmas dessert of leftover rice porridge folded with whipped cream, served with red berry sauce and a hidden almond. A national and Christmas Eve tradition, sweet and creamyy dessert, a pudding.

🇫🇷France

Riz au lait

Riz au lait is rice slowly simmered in milk with sugar and vanilla until creamy and spoonable.

🇬🇷Greece

Rizogalo

Ριζόγαλο

Greek rice pudding.

🇧🇩West Bengal, Bangladesh

Roshmalai

রসমালাই

Flattened chhena discs poached in syrup then steeped in thickened, cardamom-scented milk and served cold.

🇪🇬Egypt

Roz bil Laban

رز باللبن

A Egyptian creamy rice pudding with milk, sugar, and vanilla or cinnamon, a daily and home classic

🇷🇸Serbia

Ruske šubare

Руске шубаре

Ruske šubare are Vojvodina parlour cakes of chocolate and vanilla layers, coated to resemble a fur hat.

🇩🇰Denmark

Rødgrød med Fløde

A Danish red berry pudding of strawberries, raspberries, red currants, and rhubarb, thickened and served cold with cream. A national and summer classic, a traditional and beloved pudding, a dessert, a classic.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Sago Halawa

Sago

Gulf sago halawa (saqoo) is a glossy pudding of soaked sago pearls cooked with sugar, cardamom, saffron, and sometimes milk or evaporated milk; it is distinct from South African milk sago pudding.

🇿🇦South Africa

Sago Pudding

A South African pudding of sago pearls, milk, and sugar, served warm with cinnamon, a comfort and home classic

🇧🇷Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Sagu

Sagu de vinho

A dessert from Rio Grande do Sul of small tapioca pearls cooked in red wine and sugar until translucent and pudding-like, served warm or chilled.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Black Pudding

Black Pudding

Sausage made with pig's blood, rice, and spices; also known as boudin; an acquired taste but those who love it really love it; made with herbs, spices, sometimes rice, and pig's blood; served like a sausage; a traditional Saint Lucian dish; the black pudding of Saint Lucia; a Creole street food; a bold, savoury snack.

🇲🇫Marigot, Saint Martin

Saint Martin Sweet Potato Pudding

Pudding de Patates Douces

Dense, spiced dessert made from grated white sweet potato, pumpkin, tannia/taro, brown sugar, cinnamon, black pepper, butter, and flour, baked until browned; a traditional Christmas dessert in Saint Martin and an official category in the Collectivity's traditional food competition.

🇮🇳Tamil Nadu, India

Sakkarai Pongal

சக்கரை பொங்கல்

A sweet rice and moong dal pudding from Tamil Nadu, sweetened with jaggery and flavored with cardamom and ghee. It is a festival dessert.

🇦🇹Salzburg, Austria

Salzburger Nockerl

Light vanilla soufflé dumplings shaped like three mountains representing Salzburg's hills, dusted with powdered sugar, a legendary Salzburg specialty.

🇸🇲San Marino

Sammarinese Crème Caramel

Cacciatello

A traditional Sammarinese dessert made with milk, sugar, and eggs, similar to crème caramel; also called casatello; milk and sugar boiled together for an hour, then cooled with egg yolks and whites; baked in a buttered tray until set; served hot or cold; a Wikipedia-listed dish; the crème caramel of San Marino.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Samoan Poi

Poi

Samoan poi is ripe banana mashed with coconut cream into a smooth, spoonable pudding served as a cool side or dessert.

🇹🇭Thailand

Sangkhaya fak thong (Thai Pumpkin Custard)

สังขยาฟักทอง

Sangkhaya fak thong, pandan custard steamed inside a whole pumpkin and sliced into wedges, is a named Thai dessert with a distinctive presentation.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Sapodilla Pudding

Ripe sapodilla mashed into a baked pudding with butter, egg and spice, tasting of brown sugar and pear.

🇲🇴Macao

Sawdust Pudding

Serradura

Macau's iconic dessert; whipped cream layered with crushed Marie biscuit crumbs; the name means sawdust in Portuguese, referring to the biscuit crumbs; impossibly simple but tastes like childhood; a Macanese invention; served cold in a glass; the texture varies according to the cream; the dessert that defines Macau's sweet culture.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Sawine

Vermicelli toasted and simmered in milk with cardamom, cinnamon, almonds and raisins, served for Eid.

🇦🇺Australia

Self-saucing Pudding

A pudding that makes its own sauce: chocolate or caramel batter poured into a dish, covered with sugar and boiling water, then baked so springy sponge rises above a pool of thick hot sauce.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Semolina and Cream Sweet

مفروكة

Toasted semolina and butter worked into a crumbly base, topped with clotted cream, pistachio and syrup.

🇪🇪Estonia

Semolina Foam

Mannavaht

Foamy semolina mousse with tart berries like lingonberries or cranberries, whipped until light and frothy.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Semolina Pudding

Griesmeelpudding

Pudding made from semolina, milk, and sugar, a traditional Dutch dessert often served with fruit coulis.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Sericaia

An airy, cinnamon-dusted egg pudding from Alentejo, often served with Elvas plum.