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Recipe - Risotto

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  • Why not just ask your friend?
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    You sure it was a risotto?
  • CCP
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    There's a recipe for oven baked carbonara risotto in Delia's How to Cook book - maybe your friend adapted that?

    Even if it isn't that recipe, oven baked risotto's really easy to make - you just start it off like a normal risotto, then add all the stock in one go, bring it to boiling point and put the lot in the oven. I find it takes about 25 mins to cook through, and it's much easier than standing stirring for all that time (but then I'm lazy!).

    I've never done a spinach and ricotta one, but I guess you'd add the raw spinach and ricotta for the last ten minutes or so, so it has a chance to heat through.
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  • Delia's baked risotto carbonnara

    Spinach and ricotta risotto

    put the 2 together and hey presto :j

    I'll add this to the risotto thread later.

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  • jcr16
    jcr16 Posts: 4,185 Forumite
    i made one yesterday. mum has the recipe at her house and i wasn't able to get the recipe so i winged it. it turned out fine, but there was just slightly a bit too much stock which didn't all get soaked up by the rice.

    just wondering is there a general rule of thumb of how much fluid rice will absorb when being cooked in an oven .because when i just simple boil it, i use more water than needed and then drain when cooked.
  • jcr16 wrote: »
    just wondering is there a general rule of thumb of how much fluid rice will absorb when being cooked in an oven .because when i just simple boil it, i use more water than needed and then drain when cooked.

    I've never done risotto in the oven - it's a dish I like to make on the hob as soon as I'm in from work, and it's just as easy to do on top :)

    Delia's recipe is here, so she'll give you quantities.

    As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to give you more ideas.
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  • jcr16
    jcr16 Posts: 4,185 Forumite
    well it wasn't meant to be a risotto it was gonna be chicken fried rice. ( left over roast chicken, cooked up chopped bacon, mushrooms, peas, peppers, anything really you want. then boil rice and mix all together when cooked and give it ten mins in a frying pan. it gorgeous. but i didn't have the time monday to do all the diff stages of it.

    so i rememebered a recipe my mum had for what to do with left over turkey after xmas. it is lush, rice , cooked turkey ( in this case chicken) chopped up bacon, peas, mushrooms , onions , peppers. stick it all in the stock pot, a qty of long grain rice and vegetable stock. but i couldn't rememeber how much stock needed to the rice. so it not really a true risotto. it kinda a throw it all together and wing it sort of meal without the recipe.but i wing alot of meals thats just me ha ha. grated cheese on the top and it's divine.

    i will look at the delia recipes , thankyou.
  • moozie_2
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    Love this thread! Thank you to all of you kind people for sharing your recipes and your wisdom :T:T:T
    Leason learnt :beer:
  • Hi,

    does anybody have any nice simple recipes for risotto? Would like it for all of us, me OH, DD (7yrs), DS (7months).

    Thanks.
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