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Posts tagged “risotto”

Playing with Recipes: Pasta, Risotto-Style

Emma’s popular post on the best way to cook pasta triggered a vague memory of a no-boil method I had read about years ago. A few minutes of internet sleuthing and there it was: Alain Ducasse’s r...

How To: Make Risotto in a Rice Cooker

Not since a roommate in college had a rice maker have I played around with one. If I remember correctly, that one singed the bottom layer of rice and then broke before Thanksgiving break. Not much o...

Recipe: Spring Lemon Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns

After two weeks away from our kitchen, we returned last week to find the market positively brimming with spring vegetables. When we'd left there were only the first signs of ramps, but now there was ...

Chocolate Pudding and Risotto for the Pope
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.23.2008

Chocolate pudding! Melissa Clark goes on an all-out quest to discover the chocolate pudding of her dreams in her piece You Call That Pudding, Grandma?. She comes back with not one but four decadent re...

Recipe: Caramel Risotto

Risottos and braises are not the same, since a risotto is not covered at any point in the cooking process. But they are related in that the rice is fried with butter at the beginning, then cooked sl...