Delicious creamy risotto (Rice & Pasta Dishes)

Member Name: SaveMeTheMoney

Product:	Rice & Pasta Dishes
Date:	27/10/09 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to cook

Disadvantages: Have to constantly watch and stir

Here is another really quick and simple recipe, this time it is for making risotto. I usually make chicken risotto, but recently substituted the chicken for fresh chorizo and that was amazing.

Ingredients:

125 grams of arborio risotto rice per person
1 pint of chicken stock
drizzle of olive oil
1 tablespoon of butter
110 grams of freshly grated parmesan/gran padano/pecorino cheese
250 millilitres of white wine
1 clove of garlic
2 chicken breasts cut into small pieces / or 2 chorizo sausages cut into small pieces
1 onion
Small handful of frozen peas
100 grams of pancetta
Ground black pepper to season

Method:

Heat the oil in the saucepan or something like a le creuset pot. Cut up the garlic, onion and chicken/sausage.
Also, dissolve the stock in a measuring jug of water.

Add the garlic and onion to the saucepan at a low heat. After roughly five minutes, add the meat that you have choosen to use to the pan together with the pancetta. You can use streaky bacon cut up, but pancetta is so much more flavoursome.

Once the meat has been sealed add all of the rice to the pan and turn the heat up a bit to a good medium heat. Add the frozen peas at this stage too. Let it take in some of the flavour for maybe a minute before adding the wine. Let the wine nearly totally evaporate before beginning to add the stock. Do not add all the stock in one go, pour a bit in at a time. Let the rice absorb the stock nearly fully before adding more stock and so on until you have added all of the stock.

*Remember to constantly stir the rice so that it does not stick to the saucepan.*

The rice should begin to be taking on a creamy look. When the stock is all in, add the butter and the cheese and stir to ensure that is is well mixed around. Let the risotto rest now off the heat for a minute or two and serve, grating some more parmesan and black pepper on top to season.

Enjoy!

Summary: relatively straightforward cookery