Im planning on attempting to cook my own tea tonight and I wanna make chicken and mushroom Risotto.

Here's the plan -

Fry the chicken with garlic and onions

Add mushrooms

Add uncle bens express chickien rice and a can of chicken soup

wait till it looks hot

eat


Will this work?

Thats kind of just chicken with rice and soup.

Get some risotto rice and add chicken stock, white wine, garlic, mushroom and onion. You can cook it on the hob or bake it in the oven. Nice either way

might.
probably be a bit gloopy.

Risotto is ok to make, do the chicken and onions, then add risotto rice and fry quickly, turn down heat a bit, get a couple of pints of chicken stock (i mean made form oxo of course) put about a third in, simmer until stock is absorbed, repeat till all the stock is gone.

Somewhere through this stick the mushrooms in depending how cooked you like em. finish with a bit of butter stirred thru, maybe some parmesan cheese or put some white wine in the stock if you're feeling fancy.

can't beleive I just wrote that all out lol. Someone else will have got there first!!!

Learn to make risotto. It is your friend. Sounds fancy if you are entertaining the opposite sex. Plus it's bloody lovely.

Yours sounds better sammeh, cos its got parmesan cheese in it ;)

i think i have a genetic inability to make any food without cheese in.

Risotto for my tea tonite now :D

Make sure you use Arborio rice:thumbsup:

Do you have to boil the rice first or does the addition of chicken stock do that part for you?

I had a look at Jamie Olivers recipe ont net but I'd need Arthur Fowler's allotment in my back garden to make it

it cooks slowly with the stock, just gently fry the rice with the onions etc. no need to boil first.
Most risotto rice will have a basic recipie on the packet.

I'm afraid using Uncle Bens will mean you could probably be done under the trade descriptions act if you called the resulting dish Risotto.

The key to a good Risotto is the stock and right type of rice, Arborio is traditional and widely available.

Im planning on attempting to cook my own tea tonight and I wanna make chicken and mushroom Risotto.

Here's the plan -

Fry the chicken with garlic and onions

Add mushrooms

Add uncle bens express chickien rice and a can of chicken soup

wait till it looks hot

eat


Will this work?

can i come for tea please??? :D

You can make the stock for yourself very easily and it will taste WAAAAY nicer for it. Get a litre of boiling water in a pan, add half an onion, a stick of celery, a carrot, (and the green top off a leek if you have one) and simmer for an hour. You'll be left with around a pint of very nice stock.

To start your risotto, fry some onions then put them aside to add back in later. Use the same pan to melt a blob of butter, then fry the rice (just in butter) for about a minute. Then start adding stock slowly - at no point should the risotto be sloshing with liquid, just a bit wet...if you do it this way it keeps the rice from going too wet. Once you've added that first pint of stock in add the veg and chicken, and keep adding water (or oxo stock) until the rice, chicken and veg is all cooked. Tasty....Oh, and make a huge vat of the stuff so you can freeze the leftovers. It tastes great at 3am when you're feeling rough.

Few things, yeah you need to use the correct rice, Arborio is best. Make sure the stock you are using is kept simmering, so when you add it does not cool the rice. When you add the stock, only place enough to cover the rice. It’s important to stir, a lot. It breaks down the rice a little and make it creamier. Using cream is a cheat. Add parmesan and butter at the end.

Nice one

I reckon this risotto thing might just happen!

Sayin that yesterday I was supposed to be having sweet and sour chicken and ended up having super noodles on toast (no disrespect to the super noodle miners in wales, your doing a great job)

The best risottos are the ones with single cream in. My favourite ingredient is crab sticks as they end up really soft and melt in the mouth. Dry white wine such as Pinot Grigio also adds a great flavour.

:)

Dry white wine such as Pinot Grigio also adds a great flavour.

:)

Good point, i missed that. So its onion and garlic, add rice until transparent, then add wine.

The best risottos are the ones with single cream in. My favourite ingredient is crab sticks as they end up really soft and melt in the mouth. Dry white wine such as Pinot Grigio also adds a great flavour.

:)


Crab sticks:gag:Nice fresh crab meat everytime

You can make the stock for yourself very easily and it will taste WAAAAY nicer for it. Get a litre of boiling water in a pan, add half an onion, a stick of celery, a carrot, (and the green top off a leek if you have one) and simmer for an hour. You'll be left with around a pint of very nice stock.


Nom nom nom. will have to try that.

Does it freeze well? Making double is good idea for me if it means I can have a nice tea on the evenings my OH is out.

it freezes extremely well, ya. remember to use a big blob of butter when cooking, don't use oil. as someone else said, it's very important to keep stirring (almost to the point that you'll be stood there stirring it for 20 minutes) for creaminess, even cooking, and no crunchy bits of rice (:gag:).

I like risotto with nothing but garlic, lemon juice and asparagus. hmmm, smelly wee...

I like it with mixed peppers and mushrooms. I usually use olive oil to fry off the onion, peppers and garlic before adding the Arborio, a good stock and the mushrooms. I finish it with a knob of butter and shaved parmesan

...keep stirring! :D

Cooked it last night........

proper nice!!!!

Crappy tesco dint have any of the rice everyone kept mentioning but they had an uncle bens express rice rissotto which was ok

went with the garlic and onion thing, then chicken, then rice, mushrooms and veg stock.

looked a bit rubbish at first but 20 mins later it wer lookin quite sexual

cheers

everyone

Don't be tempted to put too much of the stock in at a time. Little by little, and keep stirring. White wine and parmesan should be added. If you find it hard to keep the rice from getting gloopy, you can use pearl barley instead - goes really well with pumpkin or butternut squash in "risotto" :)

Cooked it last night........

proper nice!!!!

Crappy tesco dint have any of the rice everyone kept mentioning but they had an uncle bens express rice rissotto which was ok

went with the garlic and onion thing, then chicken, then rice, mushrooms and veg stock.

looked a bit rubbish at first but 20 mins later it wer lookin quite sexual

cheers

everyone

Excellent, glad you enjoyed it despite Tesco's lack of a basic ingredient! :)

Cooked it last night........

proper nice!!!!

Crappy tesco dint have any of the rice everyone kept mentioning but they had an uncle bens express rice rissotto which was ok

went with the garlic and onion thing, then chicken, then rice, mushrooms and veg stock.

looked a bit rubbish at first but 20 mins later it wer lookin quite sexual
cheers

everyone

Erm, so did you eat it or ............... y'know

???????????:huh:

Erm, so did you eat it or ............... y'know

???????????:huh:

neyw mate, its american pie, not american risotto!