Risotto With Fish Broth
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- fish broth
- rice
- onion
- clove garlic
- parsley
- carrot
- celery
- olive oil
- tomato sauce or conserva
- butter
- parmesan
- dried mushrooms
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Use strained fish broth (from boiling a fine fish or large mullet). Make a battuto of onion, garlic, parsley, carrot and celery; cook in oil with salt and pepper until colored.
- Stop it with tomato sauce or conserva dissolved in a ladle of the broth; boil briefly.
- Add the rice and cook it with the hot broth added a little at a time; add butter at halfway and parmesan at the end.
- For a soup version, add a pinch of dried mushrooms and serve the parmesan separately.