Main Dishes, Pork Mutton Veal, Rice Dishes

Portuguese Risotto With Mushrooms

  • 4 tablespoons Oil or butter
  • 1 Onions
  • 2 Garlic cloves, optional
  • 1/4 pound Mushrooms, fresh, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups Rice, uncooked
  • 1 1/2 pints Chicken stock, boiling
  • ~ Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup Veal, cooked, diced
  • 1 cup Grated tasty cheese

    • Place oil or butter into a heavy bottomed frying pan and heat; add diced onion,crushed garlic, and the mushrooms and stalks.

    As soon as the onion begins to brown add the rice and stir over the heat until it takes on a translucent look.

    Add boiling stock a cup at a time, stir toprevent the rice sticking to the bottomof the pan, do not add any more until the rice has absorbed the other.

    Have theheat very low and stir occasionally , the process should take approximately 45 minutes.

    Season to taste, then add the meat.

    Serve at once with the cheese sprinkled over the top.

    Serves 4.

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Denisse Yvanovich of Melbourne (Australia). 

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