Chicken Risotto Recipe
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Ingredients: Chicken breasts
Salt
Pepper
5 bullion cubes
2 T butter
2 T olive oil
Medium onion cut into thin slices
Arborio rice
Small can tomato paste
1 T butter
Parmesan cheese
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Directions:1st cook 4 chicken breasts in the crock pot. Season with salt & pepper.
Start by bringing 8 cups of water and 5 chicken bouillon cubes to a boil. Once it has boiled bring it a simmer and keep it hot. The reason you do this is so you are not adding cold liquid as you are cooking your rice.
In the meantime, while the chicken stock is coming to a boil, you take a heavy pot and put in 2 T butter and 2 T olive oil. Heat this and cut a medium onion into very thin slices and cook those in the oil and butter until very soft. To the onion you add to cups of Arborio rice. Coat this with the oil and butter over medium heat, maybe just 30 seconds or so not letting the rice burn. Then add one little can of tomato paste and stir it all together. The mixture will be a big red clump and will start to stick to the bottom of the pan very quickly so keep stirring and start adding your hot liquid. I add about 4 ladle full's at this point. Stir it and it will start absorbing all of the liquid. Then just keep adding broth as the rice absorbs. Occasionally I will over the rice and walk away for a couple of minutes, but I stay close and keep stirring because it really wants to stick to the bottom of the pan. Just make sure you are dredging the bottom of the pan as you stir. The whole cooking process should take about 30 minutes. At the end of cooking it will release all of its starches and be a creamy mixture. You will have to taste it to make sure the rice is cooked thoroughly. When it is finished, add another tablespoon of butter and stir in. This makes it glossy and delicious. I also stir in some freshly grated parmesan and then sprinkle some on top when I serve it Enjoy!
I forgot about the chicken. I add cooked &cubed chicken at the very end of cooking. Maybe the last 5 minutes of cooking. If you add it very early it just falls apart as you are stirring.
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