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a rice dish that demands you stir like your dinner depends on it, because it does
means An Italian dish of short-grain rice cooked slowly in broth, added a little at a time and stirred constantly until it turns creamy.
from From Italian risotto, a diminutive built on riso, 'rice' — itself descended from Latin oryza, which Latin borrowed from Greek oryza, a word that almost certainly traveled west from the East along ancient trade routes (compare related forms in Persian and Sanskrit). So buried in the name is the whole journey of rice across the world, ending in a creamy northern-Italian pot.
- origin
- Born in Milan, gilded with saffron worth more than gold
- the rice
- Arborio's starch is the whole creamy secret
- no walking away
- Constant stirring releases starch, makes the silk
- al dente law
- Italians serve it loose, almost soupy, never sticky
- hidden weapon
- A cold butter beating at the end, called mantecatura
risotto alla milanese — saffron-infused rice dish from milan, italy, dating to 16th century
risotto nero — squid ink risotto from venice, northern italy
risotto al tartufo — truffle risotto from piedmont region, italy