Ingredients for - Risotto with mussels and calamari
How to cook deliciously - Risotto with mussels and calamari
1. Stage
Cut the vegetables for the broth into small cubes.
2. Stage
Bring the broth or water to a boil and put the vegetables all at once. IMPORTANT: 1. Make more broth than we need, better left than not enough 2. do not salt 3. keep the vegetable broth on low heat for as long as the risotto is made
3. Stage
In a thick-bottomed sauté pan, heat the olive oil and place the garlic directly in the skin, crushing it with the flat side of a knife. Cook it for a minute and then remove it. You just need to let the oil get fragrant from the garlic.
4. Stage
Prepare 1 cup of rice per casserole. You can take regular, round rice. Finely chop the onion.
5. Stage
Sauté the onions in the garlic oil. Gild it.
6. Stage
We put the rice and do, stirring until the rice is kind of transparent ("glassy").
7. Stage
Add white, dry wine to the rice. Prepare the spices. I took a teaspoon each: oregano, mint, basil, rosemary. You can take just a mix - Italian herbs, it is freely available in stores.
8. Stage
We make the rice until the alcohol is completely evaporated, stirring.
9. Stage
Add spices and stir.
10. Stage
Now we start adding a scoop of broth and vegetables. Add a scoop, do until it is completely absorbed. Add a scoop again. We keep the broth and vegetables on low heat the whole time!
11. Stage
I had frozen mussels and calamari. I thawed them completely, rinsed them, and dried them with a paper towel. That way there won't be that pungent seafood smell.
12. Stage
With the last scoop of vegetable broth, add the calamari and mussels and salt to taste. Stir. About 6-7 scoops of broth per glass of rice.
13. Stage
The liquid is all absorbed. Remove from the heat. Grate the cheese. Cheese ideally Parmesan. You can take any cheese you like.
14. Stage
In the hot risotto put the cheese and stir.
15. Stage
Risotto is best eaten immediately, freshly prepared. It is very, very tasty. Pepper it if you like. I'm just in love with it!