This recipe, from "The Essential Mediterranean" (Harper Collins) by Nancy Harmon Jenkins is a feature of The Radio Kitchen. Your radio home for food, fun and friends.
Ingredients
2 cups
hearty red wine
2 cups
light chicken stock
1 tablespoon
unsalted butter
1 tablespoon
extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons
minced red onion
1 1/2 cups
rice for risotto (arborio, carnaroli, vialone nano)
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup
grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, or more to taste
Instructions
1.
Warm the wine in a saucepan to just below the simmering point. In another saucepan, bring the stock to a gentle simmer. Keep these two liquids very warm, just below simmering, while you prepare the rice.
2.
In a heavy-duty saucepan, melt the butter in the olive oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook until the onion is very soft melting into the fat. Do not let the onion brown.
3.
When the onion is soft, add the rice and raise the heat slightly to medium. Cook, stirring, until the rice is translucent and starting to absorb some of the fat. Add 1/2 cup of the warm wine and raise the heat to medium-high. Cook rapidly, stirring, until all the wine has been absorbed.
4.
Now, lower the heat again to medium low and start adding the warm wine in 1/2 cup increments or so, stirring slowly. As each addition of wine is absorbed by the rice, add another, but don't let the rice dry out between additions of liquid. When all the wine has been added, start to stir in the simmering stock in the same way. You may not need to use all the stock.
5.
When the rice is smooth and creamy, well coated with the sauce, but with each grain still a little resistant at the center when you bite it, remove the saucepan from the heat. Stir in the salt and pepper to taste, along with 2 tablespoons of the grated cheese. Cover the pan and set aside for 5 to 7 minutes to let the rice rest. Then serve immediately, passing the remaining cheese at the table.
... an excerpt of:
"The Essential Mediterranean" (Harper Collins)
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