Autumn Vanilla & Spice Rice Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 cups milk
1 cup instant rice, uncooked
1 red apples or 1 green apple, chopped
1/3 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding or (3 1/2 ounce) package vegetarian instant vanilla pudding mix
1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preparation

Bring the 1 cup of the milk to boil.
Next,stir in the rice,chopped apple,raisins,cinnamon& nutmeg;cover.
Remove from heat an let stand for 5 minutes.
While letting it stand,prepare the pudding as directed with the remaining 2 cups milk.
Stir the rice mixture into prepared pudding.
If using the nuts,stir in next.
Cover surface of pudding with plastic wrap;& cool for 5 minutes.