Recipe - Risotto

zippychick

Oddly ive never tasted risotto!

We do have a thread on risotto, and a seafood risotto one as well

Freezing risotto may also be useful

Ill merge this later - do report back

Zip

Stephen_Leak

RISOTTO

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

250g of minced meat, chopped chicken, prawns, mushrooms or frozen mixed vegetables
1 clove of garlic
½ an onion
100g (¼ of a 400g tin) of plum tomatoes
1 tablespoon of olive oil
125g (125ml by volume) of arboreo rice
1 tablespoon of dried mixed herbs
250ml of water
1 beef, chicken or vegetable stock cube

METHOD

If you are using chicken, chop it into 2cm (1 inch) pieces. If you are using mushrooms, wipe them clean, cut the ends off the stalks, then chop them into halves or quarters depending on their size.

Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the onion, cut it in half, chop one half into tiny pieces and save the other half.

Open the tin of tomatoes. Put the juice into a bowl. Chop the tomatoes while they are still in the can (it’s easier than chasing them around the bowl). Put the chopped tomatoes into the bowl. Use 100g and save the other 300g.

Put the oil into a frying pan on a medium heat. Add the garlic and onion and fry for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

Add the minced meat, chicken, prawns, mushrooms or vegetables. Fry for another 3 to 4 minutes, until any meat is an even colour, with no pink bits. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

Add the rice and fry for another 1 to 2 minutes. Add the herbs and tomatoes. Mix thoroughly.

Put the water into a jug. Crumble the stock cube into the water and stir until dissolved.

Add a little of the stock to the pan. Mix thoroughly. When it has been absorbed by the rice, add a little more of the stock. Mix thoroughly. Repeat this until all of the stock has been added to the pan.

Continue to cook, until the stock has been absorbed and the rice is cooked. Stir frequently to stop it sticking. If it looks like it is getting dry, add a little bit of water.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Use minced beef, lamb, pork or turkey, whichever is cheapest.

If you are using prawns, use either a chicken or vegetable stock cube.

Substitute 125ml of white wine for 125ml of the water.

TIPS

This dish needs an eye keeping on it all the time to make sure that it cooks properly but stays moist.

Plum tomatoes can be used either whole or chopped. It is difficult to stick chopped tomatoes back together again if you need to use them whole.

nonnatus

A REALLY simple one that my kids adore is as follows:

Pop the kettle on and make up a couple of pints of chicken stock, leave it to stand. Take a mug full of frozen petit pois peas, pour a little boiled water on them and leave them to defrost.

With some nice sharp scissors, thinly cut some smoked streaky bacon into little bits and fry without oil until they are nice and crispy and brown. AVOID EATING THE BACON take the bacon out of the pan with a slatted spoon leaving all the lovely bacon juices in the pan and set bacon aside.

Finely chop some onion and fry until soft in the bacon juices.

Add the Arborio risotto rice and bacon into the pan now and fry for a couple of seconds, just to cover the rice in all the lovely flavours.

Now start adding the stock a couple of ladles at a time. Stay with it, don't wander off, keep adding stock until your rice is the consistency you like it (we like it quite firm). Stir in yoiur lovely green peas and serve. You can add cheese or herbs if you wwant but I like to keep it simple.

If you have any left the next day, shape into patties and shallow fry them. risoto cakes -yuuuuummmmmmmmm x

JMurph

best risotto recipe (at least for ease) I've ever tried it Delia's Risotto Carbonara. Google it for details, but you do it in the oven so you don't have to keep stirring it. Delish!

Sagaris

I like this one - scaled down for two of us, of course!

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/risotto/basic-risotto-recipe

I leave out the vermouth, but it's lovely - made it a few times and DH loves it (veggie version of course!)

yumyums

This is delicious and very easy as it's done in the oven

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2818/ovenbaked-risotto-

It's got bacon in it so it's bound to be good!

Mrs_Domino

MrsE wrote: »

http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/b/butternut_squash_risotto.html

This is my fav

Thanks for this, just tried it as I had some butternut squash left and DS wolfed it down :j I left out the wine though, just added more stock.

Been struggling with veg for a while with him so it was very uplifting to watch :T

MrsE_2

Mrs_Domino wrote: »

Thanks for this, just tried it as I had some butternut squash left and DS wolfed it down :j I left out the wine though, just added more stock.

Been struggling with veg for a while with him so it was very uplifting to watch :T

Glad you liked it:D
I leave the wine out too sometimes & add more stock:D

Oompa_Loompa_2

Hiya

I've been searching for AGES yesterday and today and just can't find the thread for recipes!! There was one for courgette risotto I saw and planned to make it this weekend but can't find it!

System

there was one on the BBC yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/courgetteandherbriso_90203