my main course was an obvious choice given the fact that arborio rice was one of my ingredients. I was faced with a few challenges, namely, I only had the onion to use as my base, I had no vermouth or even wine as the alcohol bit and no stock! This was the reason I drained the tomatoes for my starter.
© ready steady cook main course
ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil *
250g mushrooms sliced
salt for seasoning *
1 tablespoon butter *
1/2 onion chopped
2 garlic cloves sliced *
100g arborio rice
water at simmering temperature
black pepper for seasoning *
juice from the drained tin tomatoes *
1 handful fresh flat leaf parsley chopped *
1 tablespoon mascarpone cheese
* pantry ingredients that were allowed
method:
heat the olive oil in a pan and fry off the mushrooms with a generous seasoning of salt
remove and set aside, adding the pan juices to the drained tomato juice
melt the butter and gently fry the onion until translucent
add the garlic and fry for 2 minutes
add the rice and cook until it starts to change colour
add 1 ladle simmering water
season generously with black pepper
when the water has nearly absorbed add the tomato juice
season generously with salt
continue adding water, a ladle at a time, until the rice is nearly cooked through
check the seasoning
add the mushrooms and heat through
add the parsley and remove from the heat
stir in the marscapone and serve immediately
Tandy
