Risotto anyone?

[MelissaS]

One of the reasons I got my Thermomix was hearing what amazing risottos it can do. Sadly, my Canadian version of the basic TM cookbook does not include a risotto recipe!

I believe that pg 85 of the Australian cookbook has a Mushroom Risotto. Would anyone be willing to pass that (or another) recipe along? I have the mushrooms, have the arborio rice, but have no recipe!

Thank you all.

[brazen20au]

http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/2008/11/pumpkin-chive-risotto-thermomix.html

[Thermomixer]

One from your side of the world : http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1235.msg8357#msg8357 - just substitute chicken of the woods for whatever mushrooms.

Another - just leave out the chestnuts http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=144.0

Haven't got the Everyday cookbook handy

[judydawn]

Haven't got the Everyday cookbook handy

What  you don't take your ECB to work with you Thermomixer, shame on you 

[baf65]

This is what I do for a perfect mushroom risotto, and believe me I have made a few!!!

chop half an onion on speed 5 for a few seconds
add 50g of olive oil
saute for 2mins/100C/speed soft
pop in the butterfly
add 380g of arborio rice and 100g of white wine
saute for 2mins/100c/speed soft/reverse
add in 250g of sliced mushrooms (i use swiss brown)
I also add in a sprinkle of porcini mushrooms that i have milled in the Thermo but keep in my cupboard
add in 2tsp of stock concentrate (or 2 stock cubes) and 1000g of water
cook for 16mins/100c/speed soft/reverse

Pour into thermoserver and leave to satnd for 5mins or so until more of the liquid is absorbed.....add in parmesan cheese

If you follow the recipe in the EDC I just find it doesnt work as well!!

[brazen20au]

thanks baf will keep that in mind, especially as i will only have the old old old version of the EDC available!

[Ceejay]

Oooh risotto.. our fav!!

I change the mushrooms for diced pumpkin and add a few handfuls of baby spinach at the end.. kids always gobble it up fast! 

[JaneeZee]

Thats interesting baf......I have never used the butterfly in making my risottos & they pretty much always work out fine.  I use about 420g of arborio & I grind my dry mushrooms when I do the onion & saute them together. 

Some days I feel like I can't look at another risotto!!!!

[faffa_70]

Some days I feel like I can't look at another risotto!!!!

OMG I feel like that already!!! 

This is what I do for a perfect mushroom risotto, and believe me I have made a few!!!

LOL

[MelissaS]

Thank you all for the wonderful risotto recipes!

I am going to try a few of these, and also the "official" one (Thank you for the offer to post it Thermomixer when you are back near your cookbook) and will report back my results. I love having several version to try! (Good thing both hubby and I love risotto!)

[MelissaS]

Thermomixer, do you have the "official" recipe available? I would love to compare to the variations people have shared with me. Thanx!

[Thermomixer]

The "official" recipe may well have  is certain to have changed - I have the April 2007 copy of the Everyday cookbook - other can let you know how it is different.  And I could guarantee it is - my consultant made alterations to it on my sheet - but here goes:

50g Olive oil
1/2 medium onion
200g fresh mushrooms, sliced
2 vegetable stock cubes
100g white wine
1100g water
500g arborio rice
50 parmesan cheese (or to tastet), cubed

Method
Place the parmesan into TM bowl and pulverise for 10 seconds on speed 9.
Transfer to a separate bowl and set aside.
Add onion into TM bowl and chop for 5 seconds on speed 7
Add oil and saute for 2 mins at 100 deg on speed 1
Add rice and wine into bowl and saute 2 mins at 100 deg on Reverse+speed1
Add stock cubes, mushrooms and water and cook for 16-17 mins at 100 deg on Reverse and speed 1
Pour risotto into a dish and stir through the parmesan cheese.

This "official" version is not very nice according to most reports - it is a constant feature at demonstrations, but not in this form.

I would follow baf's version as it is likely to be the most tweaked, and delicious.

Something that you may see from the "tweaking" thread - there are lots of recipes that may not have been as well tried by people before they were published and now the "official" versions are getting better.

Would not surprise me to see that there is a new version in the latest update of the book.

[baf65]

There is a new recipe in the most recent EDC....the main difference I think was the amount of rice....your recipe TM uses 500g of rice, the new recipe I think is 400g, but I only use 380g and 1000g of water, not 1100g as in your recipe

[Thermomixer]

Thanks Ann - I would encourage people to use your recipe - it is very well tried and tested. 

[brazen20au]

baf, i made your recipe last night, very different to the other but very nice. i did a mushroom and bacon one (wanted to practice the mushroom one but none of us actually like mushies lol)