How to cook risotto without a prescription

Risotto - it's incredibly simple dish at all about all you need no more than half an hour. To verify this, we suggest you to do without a prescription and to limit ourselves to this simple instruction.

We start with the selection of ingredients. Of course, not do without risotto rice, olive oil, onion, broth and cheese. But to them, you can add bacon, chicken, seafood, or various types of cheese, Dried herbs, spices, wine and citrus.

Picking a combination of ingredients, start with the base - fried onions. Before the start of roasting, we decided to be browned in olive oil, slices of bacon to a crisp and the melted fat used to saute minced shallots. With this foundation of risotto will get a much richer flavor.

When the onion is softened, put to it the chopped garlic and add a bit of dried thyme, rosemary, tarragon or a ready-made mixture of Italian herbs.

Stir in rice to the onions and stir, making sure that each rice grain is covered with a layer of fat. At this stage, you can pour a little dry white wine. If it is not at hand will fit vermouth or beer. If you decide to add to the risotto, hard

When most of the wine is absorbed, start to pour the broth - meat, vegetable, mushroom or seafood based. Preheat liquid to room temperature, then slowly pour it in Fig. Every next ladle is added only after being absorbed most of the previous one.

The volume of the broth is dependent on the amount of rice, you need to ensure that the grains do not become completely dry and ready risotto had a fluid, creamy texture.

Needless to continuously interfere Fig all 20 minutes of cooking, it is enough only intermittent but frequent agitation.

Try the risotto. If the grains are softened from the outside, but inside were a little tight and keep in shape, the dish can be removed from the heat.

In the classic recipe risotto rice is poured in the cream, but for greater creaminess dishes they will not be denied. The latest in a saucepan sent a good handful of grated cheese.

Risotto necessarily served immediately after preparation. The best dishes will complement toppings with contrasting texture, for example crispy bacon, bread crumbs, nuts. It never hurts to splash a little more olive oil.

If the handle portion of risotto for dinner will not be possible, the remains can be spent on the preparation of interesting hot snacks - arancini - balls of rice, fried in breadcrumbs.