Leftover Pork

Curry_Queen

Galtizz wrote:

Pork and apple risotto just add cooked pork and some chopped apple at stage 3.

Mmmmmmmm yummy!!!

I usually make risotto with left-over chicken but this one sounds delish, thanks

Galtizz

Got to admit now, I haven't actually tried pork and apple, but I thought it sounded nice so I'm going to try it (perhaps on Monday, if we have rubber pork on Sunday).

I made my first risotto last week using Jamies recipe. I thought it was going to be difficult to get right but it was easy and scruuuumdiddlyumptious so now I'm turning into a bit of a risotto freak.

Queenie

Galtizz and CQ - curious mind wishes to know (my Mum called it being "nebby" but I prefer the sound of curious mind, far more "cultured", don't you think? ) ...

... what do you serve alongside your risotto's? (If anything)
Do you eat it as a lunch or as a main meal?

I really love risotto's, but for some peculiar reason, my dh can't get his head around the fact that rice is there "instead" of potatoes :rolleyes:

You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say, will be copied and pasted and used as evidence against Mr Queenie!

TIA

Curry_Queen

Galtizz wrote:

I made my first risotto last week using Jamies recipe. I thought it was going to be difficult to get right but it was easy and scruuuumdiddlyumptious so now I'm turning into a bit of a risotto freak.

Me too!!!

I saw Jamie and Nigella making it on tv and thought "I can do that", as I'd previously thought it sounded complicated too, but it really is easy peasy to make and so yummy

You have to use proper risotto rice though, I use arborio, as it wouldn't work with anything else, but it's definitely worth paying that little bit extra for it.

Queenie, I've done it for lunch and as a main meal and just served with a nice crusty bit of bread, or if I'm in the mood I'll make something like a foccaccia bread to go with it

Galtizz

Queenie wrote:

Galtizz and CQ -
... what do you serve alongside your risotto's? (If anything)
Do you eat it as a lunch or as a main meal?

Had ours as a main meal last week served with bread.

If OH moans make it quite big and tell him, if he's still hungry 20 minutes after eating it all, tell him you'll make him some potatoes next time, or do a pudding. A lot of men (my OH included) seem to think that rice isn't filling, but it is, especially with chicken or pork.

Shez

I cooked a pork joint yesterday (didnt want it to go off), just wondering what i can do with it now apart from slicing it for sandwiches?

Queenie

Slice it, freeze it between pieces of greaseproof paper then take out, defrost when and as necessary to serve with a roast dinner.

Serve it as cold cuts with new potatoes and salad.

Cut into thick slices, then into strips and use it in a Toad-in-the-hole instead of sausages - or use in a stir fry.

Slice and reheat in the oven with left over gravy

Shez

hi queenie,

thanks for tips, bit worried about reheating it, wont it dry out too much??

Thistle-down

Slice it into small pieces, re-heat with taco seasoning and have shredded pork tacos or fajitas?

**purpleprincess**

If you reheat it in gravy then it shouldn't dry out at all, yummy!