Risotto..!
Many people think its just troble to make this dish..but it's simple!
You have to dedicate about 20 mininutes of your time and Risotto is all about the timing.
There are many different Risotto recipes with different ingredients, but they are all based on rice of an appropriate variety cooked in a standard procedure. This dish has two main vegetables- sweet peas and mushrooms. You may put whatever ingredients that might suits you. Shrimp or lobster can be a great alternative for this dish.
Most people use long grain rice for everything..but not for risotto. You need to use short grain rice. There are few kinds of short grain rice available and I used arborio risotto rice today.
Ingredients
1 Cup of Risotto Rice (2~3 servings)
1 cup choice of sliced mushrooms (prefer baby bella mushrooms)
1/4 cup of sweet Peas
1 tea spoon of Minced garlic
4 cups of Chicken stock Broth or hot water
1/2 cup of chopped half of onion
1/4 cup of dry white wine
1/2 block of Butter (prefer unsalted)
1/2 cup of Parmasan Cheese
2 table spoon of Extra virgin Olive oil
Salt & Pepper
Pour Chicken broth and let it simmer. You will be using entire pack of chick broth..risotto rice needs a lot of liquids to cook.
Sautè sliced mushrooms and minced garlic.
Remove sautèd mushrooms. Using the same pan, add butter and oilve oil in a medium high heat.
Add onion , sautè until it gives off nice transluscent color.
Add a cup of risotto rice (2~3 servings)
*cooking it dry, without any liquid.. basically you are toasting the rice. (it wakes up the rice and will bring up the creaminess)
*Keep stir for 5 minutes to keep it from burning. Otherwise, the final product will have scorching taste to it.
Rice is toasted nice and brown. Let's add quarter of cup of white wine (dry wine)
Add chicken broth, half cup at a time and keep stir. Keep doing it until you put total of 2-3 cups of stock. *Keep taste to see if the rice has been cooked.
Rice is nicely cooked. Let's add sautèd mushrooms and sweetpeas (reserve some for garnish)
*Sorry for the picture..I dropped my digital camera on the hardwood floor and broke it right before this
Reduce the heat and add parmasan cheese, little bit of butter and seasoning to your taste.
*Butter will brings up the creaminess of the rice right before the serving.
It's almost done!
Put a desired portion on a plate, garnish with left over sautèd mushrooms on top w/ sprinkle of parmasan cheese. Finely chopped fresh herbs makes great garnish on this dish too.
Sweetpeas and Mushroom Risotto, done.
Look at the texture. Creamy and delightful.
Great appetizer indeed.
xjong's Sweet peas and mushroom Risotto
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