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Risotto made easy, with ingredients you always get in the supermarket.
Here you will find out step by step how to prepare your Italian rice dish with oyster mushrooms, button mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, porcini mushrooms or chanterelles.
Conjure up a quick and easy, delicious and vegetarian dish with mushrooms.
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Preparation step 2 Prepare the mushrooms and carefully tap them off. Pour in the water and stir in the flour and lemon juice. Dip the mushrooms quickly and move them in the water. I always do this with small portions, then place the mushrooms in the sieve and quickly wash them under running water. Dry the cleaned mushrooms on the kitchen towel.
Wash mushrooms
Clean or wash the mushrooms with a brush, depending on their condition.
I will show you how to wash mushrooms professionally in a cooking school article.
Preparation step 3 Fresh, small king oyster mushrooms go perfectly with the fish. You can also use porcini, peppercorns, or other seasonal mushrooms for the dish.
Prepare mushrooms
Prepare the mushrooms in the kitchen.
You can reserve a few small mushrooms as decoration.
Preparation step 4 Fried mushrooms in the pan, king oyster mushrooms fried crispy.
Fry mushrooms
I fry the prepared mushrooms in the pan over high heat.
Season with salt and pepper, then remove from the pan.
-> You can continue using the pan straight away.
Preparation step 5 Halve the shallot and cut into fine cubes.
Prepare shallots
Halve, peel and finely dice the shallots.
Preparation step 6 Risotto rice with the ingredients clearly shown when sweating.
Prepare risotto
Sweat the risotto rice with bay leaves and diced shallots in a little butter.
-> Lower the temperature and rather sweat a little longer. This way the taste can develop better.
Preparation step 7 Risotto approach with white wine and broth.
cook risotto
Deglaze with white wine and broth and prepare the risotto while stirring and gently simmering.
–> Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
-> Note the cooking time on the packaging of the risotto rice.
Preparation step 8 Risotto with mushrooms
Refine optionally
Optionally, if a lot of mushrooms are available, you can add chopped and fried mushrooms to the risotto.
Preparation step 9 Finely chop or chop the parsley.
Prepare parsley
Cut the parsley into fine strips.
Preparation step 10 Finely grate the parmesan
Prepare cheese
Finely grate the Parmesan cheese and prepare for serving.
Mushrooms are a wonderful ingredient and are available in supermarkets all year round.
No wonder the mushroom risotto is one of the most popular vegetarian risotto variants.
I have a simple tip for you:
Buy light and dark mushrooms, add the light mushrooms to the risotto and cook them with the rice.
These mushrooms add flavor and your risotto will stay nice and light and white.
You take the dark mushrooms as a topping:
Fried in olive oil, refined with or without cream/soy cream, in any case with freshly cut parsley in a color and taste-coordinated way, these mushrooms go on your risotto and complete it visually and tastefully at its finest!
Which mushrooms can you use for risotto? Here you can find some ideas:
Recipes for chanterelles by chef Thomas Sixt. Chanterelles are regionally called Eierschwammerl and Reherl, other names are: Eierschwammerl, Gelbschwammer, Gelbschwammerl; popular: Yellowling, Gehling, Rehgeiß; Austrian: Re(c)hling, Recherl
oyster mushrooms
Thinly sliced mushrooms.
Fresh, small king oyster mushrooms go perfectly with the fish. You can also use porcini, peppercorns, or other seasonal mushrooms for the dish.
Fresh and brushed porcini mushrooms.
Piopparello are small, tasty mushrooms.
4. Mushroom Risotto With Fresh Mushrooms
The risotto is a real highlight, please note my following tips for purchasing and preparing the fresh mushrooms:
Buy clean, fresh mushrooms if possible
Dry brush dirty mushrooms
Always process mushrooms quickly
Put some of the mushrooms in the risotto, use the remaining mushrooms as a topping on top
Always fry mushrooms at high heat, which contributes to the positive development of taste
Tip for cleaning and washing heavily soiled, fresh mushrooms:
If the mushrooms are very dirty, fill a large bowl with cold water, stir in 2 tablespoons of flour or cornstarch and the juice of a whole lemon and quickly wash the mushrooms in it.
Then wash the mushrooms under running water and quickly dry them.
For explanation:
The dirt can be removed from the mushrooms by the lemon juice (the acid), the flour binds the dirt.
Prepare the mushrooms and carefully tap them off. Pour in the water and stir in the flour and lemon juice. Dip the mushrooms quickly and move them in the water. I always do this with small portions, then place the mushrooms in the sieve and quickly wash them under running water. Dry the cleaned mushrooms on the kitchen towel.
5. Mushroom risotto with dried mushrooms
The risotto with dried mushrooms differs minimally in the preparation, but there are a few things to consider.
Hi Thomas,
🙂
I picked out your dish in the afternoon.
My friend Mila recommended your blog to me.
The mushrooms were really easy.
I decided on king oyster mushrooms and they were also available in the supermarket.
Haven't cooked risotto that often and your instructions were a great help.
I stirred some of the mushrooms into the risotto and put some on top with parsley for decoration.
It was delicious! Thanks very much!