Microwave Risotto

[fluffhead]

For those italian food purists among you, don't read this - it's sacreligious.

Here's an easy, but fattening, recipe, and my 3 year old will actually eat it.

Ingredients:
1 cup risotto (arborio) rice.
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Tbsp. butter
1 onion, chopped
A bunch of mushrooms, sliced or chopped
3 cups hot broth

Put the oil, butter, onions and mushrooms in a pyrex dish, covered. Nuke for about 3 minutes. Add the rice and stir. Nuke another ~2 minutes. Add one cup broth and stir. Nuke another ~5 minutes. Add another cup broth and stir. Nuke another ~5 minutes. Add the final cup broth, stir, and leave uncovered. Nuke another ~10 minutes.
Stir it up and let it sit awhile. Eat it with tortilla chips if you really want to be decadent.

[Sheherezade]

You mean I don't have to stir in front of the stove for 45 minutes adding broth by the half cup????? My MIL would DIE if she found out I made risotto this way, but I'm going to try it.

Is that the Barbara Kafka recipe? I've never seen it but only heard....I'll have to try it! Thanks, Fluff.

[DCJenn]

Fluff,

where where you when I was single...? Seriously, I was wooed by the promise of "I really am a good cook." One Frozen Trader Joe's Lasagna in 6 years later...

Sounds FAB!

Jenn

[fluffhead]

heh, if you can be wooed by microwave recipes, I hate to tell you that you're what we call "easy"

heh, if you can be wooed by microwave recipes, I hate to tell you that you're what we call "easy"

[DCJenn]

Well, when I married Rick and took his last name, "Hussey", my room-mate from college said I finally had a name that really described me...

Jenn