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Alessi cuisine
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Risotto with boletus mushrooms(Risotto co' porcini al naturale)
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- 300 grams of semipure rice
- 1 kg of fresh and perfumed boletus mushrooms
- 7 garlic cloves
- a small bunch of "nepitella"
- 4-5 red tomatoes
- 5-6 spoons of olive oil
- 1/2 spoon of granular broth of boletus mushrooms
- 1 stock cube of boletus mushrooms
- 20 grams of dried boletus mushrooms
- salt and pepper
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Clean with care the mushrooms, scraping the earth parts of
the stalks and rubbing with a dampened cloth the upper part of the mushrooms
without washing them, then cut them in slices as wide and big as possible.
Check all the slices carefully and separate the slices which are a bit marked,
perforated or worm eaten (in June it is very easy to find mushrooms with
these defects); if you want you can remove, by cutting away, the parts which
are a bit defective. Choose 300 grs of the "perfect" mushrooms
(that means the upper parts) and cut them in cubes, not too small (about
3-4 centimetres) and leave them in order to use afterwards.
Leave all the slices as large as possible and lay them on a tray (if they
are a bit worm eaten, salt them in order the worms could leave): they can
be used for another preparation.
Now back to the rice.
Take a small saucepan with a well adhesive lid and with a very thick bottom.
Put all the ingredients together: oil, the cubes of mushrooms, 5 garlic
cloves, "nepitella", the pieces of tomatoes, salt and pepper,
2-3 spoons of water and let them cook for 15-18 minutes over a low heat,
the pan covered, and continuously turning.
In the meanwhile take another small saucepan and put 1/2 litre of water
together with the stock cube and let it boil, for 2-3 minutes, in order
to obtain a broth. Take out from the heat and put the dried mushrooms, for
10 minutes, in order to reconstitute them.
As soon as the mushrooms in the first saucepan will be cooked, remove the
small bunch of "nepitella" and the garlic cloves, which will be
easy to identify.
Take a blender, pour the broth with the dried reconstituted mushrooms and
the granular stuff for broth, the other two garlic cloves and then mix very
well in order to obtain a very liquid mixture, a sort of broth (add some
spoons of hot water in case it would be too thick) that you will put once
again in the saucepan, keeping it warm to use afterwards for cooking the
rice.
At this time come back to the pan where the mushrooms are boiling and put
a first big spoon of broth (the one obtained with the dried mushrooms) and
boil for 2 minutes, over a quite brisky heat, then pour the rice.
Turn and mix very well, back to the boiling but slowly, without increasing
the heat, and cook for 15 minutes continuously turning. As soon as the rice
starts to get thicker, gradually add some broth of dried mushrooms, until
you obtain the final cooking whcih should be "al dente", but not
too much.
Serve the rice in the plates without adding anything else, because the flavour
and smell of the boletus mushrooms should stand out and dominate and, if
the flavour is good and not modified by "maquillage" operations,
the discrete flavour of the rice will exalt it. |
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