Risotto Recipe Ingredients for Two People


    2-3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
    1 medium onion finely chopped
    2 sticks celery finely sliced 
    2 cloves garlic, bashed
    3 or 4 button mushrooms thinly sliced (optional)
    7oz/200g round grain rice
    Salt and ground black pepper 
    70 ml strong vegetable stock (in a pan over a gentle heat so that it stays hot)
    1 glass dry white wine or vermouth (add this to the stock and keep hot but do not boil)
    A handfull of chopped parsley 
    2oz/50g grated parmesan
    1oz/25g butter, softened



 Risotto Recipe Method

    OK - fry the onion and celery in the olive oil in a medium sized heavy based pan over 
    a medium heat until they are translucent.
    Add the mushrooms, if using, and continue to cook for 2 minutes and then add the garlic 
    turning the heat down so that it cooks gently for 2-3 more minutes.
    Add the rice and seasoning and cook for another 2-3 minutes stirring constantly until 
    it goes opaque.
    Turn up the heat to medium again.
    Right - start adding a little of the stock/wine mixture a small ladle at a time, 
    stirring constantly. 
    As the rice simmers it will reduce down, then add another ladle of the hot liquid.
    Keep doing this, making sure that the risotto is well reduced before adding more liquid, 
    and you will find the rice mixture begins to look creamy (as the rice cooks out) until all 
    of the liquid has been added.
    This usually takes about 15-20 minutes
    Add the butter , parmesan and parsley and stir till evenly mixed and melted into the rice.
    Remove from the heat and put the lid on the pan and allow to rest for 3-4 minutes - this allows 
    all of the flavours to mingle with the rice, and produces a creamier risotto. 
    Check for seasoning.
    Serve immediately with extra parmesan if desired and a green dressed salad.
    This goes particularily well with our herb crusted fish (where you could use 
    fish stock instead of vegetable)


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