Showing posts with label rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rice. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Rice with prawns, toasted bread and squid ink sauce

Finally !!!!! I made it. This "rice with prawns, toasted bread and squid ink sauce" was published by Ale in Menù Turistico in her column, "Chi la fa? Lo aspetto!" that translated might roughly be "Who's making it? I'm waiting!"

My comment is : I really liked this rice, I found it delicate, balanced in its flavours, the rice was cooked to the right point and nice and creamy , the squid ink sauce was perfect with it.



I think it is also suitable to be prepared slightly in advance, and then put in the oven just before serving.  So you can keep this recipe in mind when you have guests and do not want to finish cooking at the last minute.

In tal caso lascere un po' indietro la cottura del riso e da parte un po' di salsina del risotto da aggiungere nelle formine prima di infornare. In that case, I'd leave a little 'back cooking the rice and by a little' sauce for the rice to be added in the molds before baking.  What do you think?






RICE WITH PRAWNS TOASTED BREAD AND SQUID INK SAUCE


 Recipe by Massimo Riccioli, Restaurant; La Rosetta (Rome) pubblished by Menù Turistico


Serves 4

280 g. of Carnaroli rice,
800 g. of red prawns,
3 cloves of garlic,
2 dl vegetable stock,
2 tablespoons of cognac,
1 ladle of liquid obtained from cooking prawn shells,
50 g. of bread crumbs,
2 fillets of salted anchovies,
1 knob of butter,
1 dl of extra virgin olive oil,
salt and pepper.



For the sauce:

2 sachets of squid ink,
1 tablespoon tomato sauce,
, 1 ladle of prawn liquid,
1 / 2 teaspoon of honey,
1 knob of butter,
4 basil leaves,
 salt and pepper.

Shell and clean the prawns, keeping 4 whole prawns aside for garnishing the plates.
Use the shells to prepare the sauce. Chop the tails.  Toast the rice with 2 tblspns of oil in a pan.  In a saucepan, heat two tablespoons of olive oil, seasoned with two lightly crushed cloves of garlic .  Sauté the chopped prawns, add salt, then add the cognac  and allow to evaporate. Remove the garlic, add the rice and continue cooking, adding the prawn liquid first and then the vegetable stock. Take away from the heat when the rice is only be slightly underdone.  Add salt if necessary, and pepper.



UNDER TRANSLATION! :))




Imburrate 4 stampini e riempiteli con il risotto. 4 buttered molds and fill them with the risotto. Terminate la cottrua in forno a 120-130 gradi, per circa 5 minuti. End the cottrua in oven at 120-130 degrees for about 5 minutes.



Dislicate e sciacquate le acciughe, riducetele in poltiglia, poi dissolvetele nell'olio, con lo spicchio d'aglio rimasto, finemente tritato. Dislich and rinsed anchovies, reduce it to mush, then dissolvetele oil, with the remaining clove of garlic, finely chopped. Scaldate l'olio in una padella e tostate la mollica di pane sbriciolata. Heat the oil in a frying pan and toast the bread crumbs. Mescolate il fondo di gamberi e il brodo vegetale in parti uguali, e versatene un mestolino in una casseruola, nella quale avrete sciolto una noce di burro. Stir the bottom for shrimp and the vegetable stock in equal parts, and pour a ladle in a pot, in which you have melted a knob of butter.



Unite il miele, il basilico tritato e il nero di seppia, diluito in un cucchiaio di salsa di pomodoro. Add the honey, chopped basil and squid ink, diluted in a tablespoon of tomato sauce. Fate ridurre, fino ad ottenere una salsa abbastanza densa. Let reduce until you have a fairly thick sauce.



Velate i piatti con la salsa, sformate il tortino di riso al centro, guarnitelo con i gamberi interi e spolveratelo con la mollica di pane tostata. Veiled the plates with the sauce, transforming the rice cake in the center, garnish with the shrimp and sprinkle with the toasted bread crumbs. Completate con un filo di olio. Complete with a little oil.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Carnaroli Rice and Friendship


During the Pirandelliana (a theatre event taking place in summer here in Rome), a dear and thoughtful Friend, who usually  arrives with all kinds of nice goodies for us when she comes to see the plays (in previous years she has usually arrived with dinner for two, worthy of the most elegant picnic, ideal  to restore us after working hard and starving until late while helping at the box office ), This year brought, - although unaware of my membership in "Cucina Italiana- a microwave safe cooking stone she purchased in Germany, a black truffle and last but not least a beautiful packet of carnaroli rice, accompanied by the following  handwritten message that I appreciated so much, because sometimes a small gesture, the time and care put into doing something  say so much about a person:

"This rice is the onlyone that has PDO (protected designation of origin)  in Italy

 RECIPE FOR COOKING RICE

 1 cup of rice serves two
 2 cups cold water

Put the rice and water in a saucepan (preferably nonstick), cover with lid and place on the heat.  When the water is almost totally absorbed mix a bit and then serve with gravy, sauce or whatever you want.  It does not stick and does not require any attention. "







Yesterday night Marcowebmaster exhibited himself in cooking a truffle risotto that due to poor lighting  was not photographed before being engorged by the two of us. We'll make it again sometime and give you a full report.

 I put the rest of the rice away. I'm saving it for the recipe that  Ale (Menu Turistico) published for us in her column: "chi la fa la aspetto" - the game consists in following a given recipe by a famous chef  and  photographing what turns out  . I read one of the recipes and I thought: I've got most of the ingredients!  I've got carnaroli rice ! Where to get the squid ink had already been the subject of several jokes on the forum, and seeing that Diana (from Bordighera - only 700 km away) no longer had any in her pantry I could borrow :)), this morning I set out looking for it.  Easy! The first SMA supermarket I stopped at had it in the chiller cabinet and the cashier was so nice that she went to get it for me. With these two essential ingredients already in the pantry there are no excuses. I have to take part in Ale's "game". The only problem is that Marcowebmaster doesn't exactly love prawns. It's going to take me some time to convince him.