Farro Risotto

Name: Farro Risotto
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 liters broth, vegetable, chicken, or porcini; 227 grams crimini mushrooms; 118 milliliters dried porcini; 651 milliliters pearled farro (perlato); 3 Tbsps chopped fresh parsley, to serve; 1 clove garlic, peeled; 1 leek (washed and trimmed), halved lengthwise and thinly sliced; 59 milliliters Marsala; 59 milliliters olive oil; 59 milliliters grated Parmesan; 59 milliliters ricotta; 1 leave sliced from 3 sprigs of fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme; 118 milliliters recently boiled water

The recipe Farro Risotto could satisfy your Mediterranean craving in about 15 minutes. One serving contains 732 calories, 20g of protein, and 19g of fat. This recipe covers 34% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. Only It works well as a main course. If you have ricotta, crimini mushrooms, marsala, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the water you could follow this main course with the Watermelon-Peach Slushies as a dessert.

Instructions

Cover the dried porcini with 1/2 cup of recently boiled water, then fill the kettle and put it on the heat again if you are making up the broth with concentrate, cube, or powder. In a wide, heavy saucepan (that comes with a lid) add 2 tablespoons of the oil and the fine jade tangle of leek, and cook, stirring frequently, for about 5 minutes or until the leeks are softened.

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Broth

Leek

Water

Cooking Oil

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Sauce Pan

Drain the porcini, reserving the soaking liquid, then chop them and add them to the pan. Stir well, then add the farro and turn it gently but thoroughly in the pan. Tip in the Marsala and porcini-soaking water and let it bubble up.

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Marsala

Farro

Water

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Frying Pan

Make up the broth as wished and add this to the farro pan, stir, bring to a boil, and then clamp on a lid, turn down the heat, and let it cook at a simmer for 30 minutes, until the farro is cooked and all the liquid absorbed.

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Broth

Farro

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Frying Pan

While the farro is cooking, warm the remaining 2 tablespoons oil in a medium-sized frying pan and cook the sliced crimini mushrooms for about 5 minutes or until they begin to soften (they will first seem alarmingly dry) at which point add the thyme, grate in (or mince and add) the garlic, and cook for a further 5 minutes or until the mushrooms are juicy and soft.

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Mushrooms

Garlic

Farro

Ground Meat

Thyme

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Remove from the heat if there is still time on the clock for the farro. Once the farro is cooked, take it off the heat, too, and add the cooked mushrooms. Stir in the ricotta and Parmesan (they will melt in the heat of the farro) until the farro is creamy, then sprinkle with parsley and serve.

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Mushrooms

Parmesan