Sunday's recipe!! Italian Risotto.

Sunday's recipe! Italian Risotto.

Sunday's, Oh you know what it's like, resting and getting thing ready for Monday's work. Oh, and cooking ofcource, I think Sunday will be my officially cooking 'special' day. Ofcource I cook on Friday's and Saturday's aswell but then I cook just plain food, potatoes, veggies and meat. Sunday's I always try something different, cooking with spices or  'never eaten that much' veggies, or olive oil for example. I learn how to cook with other food recipes that way. For example marinate, I never marinated meat or potatoes. Now I do! It's so much better tasting, aswell I try to cook healthy. Fresh food is the best, but yeah, usually I buy veggies in little cans, maybe that I have to change. Fresh veggies from the market is an option too, or just the supermarket. 

Anyway, on with the Italian Risotto. 

Ingredients: 350g chicken breast, 250g mushrooms, 1 zucchini, 400ml water, rice, marinate mix and herb mix. Maybe it better to get a Italian marinate an herb mix, I'm sure a supermarket has those.

This recipe is easy to make, so here it goes. 1. Cut the chicken into small pieces. Mix the marinade mix with two or three tablespoons oil in a bowl, stirring is a must. Add the chicken pieces and stir it again. Let it all marinate untill five to ten minutes. 

Marinated the chicken pieces.

2. Clean the mushrooms and cut them into quarters. Wash the zucchini aswell and cut into pieces.

3. Bake the marinated chicken in a frying pan or wok over high heat (oil or margarine is not needed). Add zucchini and the mushrooms and cook them for one minute.  

I'm getting hungry again watching this.

4. Add 400 ml water in the frying pan or wok plus the contents of the herb mix risotto and the rice, stir well. Stirring it well is a must, and let it it simmer for about ten or twelve  minutes s until most of the liquid/water is almost gone. 

Added the 400ml water and the herb mix.

5. Remove the pan from the heat and stir well. Let the dish stand for two or three minutes, stir again thoroughly and serve. Risotto is a soft and creamy rice dish. This ricedish is usually a bit wet. 

I cooked the rice seperatly, cause I my frying pan wasn't deep enough for the rice. So I struggled a bit with how much water I had to add to the mushroom, zucchini and marinated chicken. I knew 400ml was way to much so I less the water till 300ml, after I added the 300ml water it was way to much. I mixed it all together, the content of the frying pan and the just cooked rice. The Risotto was okay, a bit to watery and perhaps a bit to much mushrooms. But the package said 250g, lol, I even saved five or six mushrooms. Next time I will do it differently, but hey, not bad for a first time making a Risotto dish.

Italian Risotto, bon appetit

I had a good weekend, it was nice and relaxed. I did the things what was needed and did the things I wanted, all good. I'm happy that work is calling though tomorrow, yeah I said it before, I love my job! I hope it will less until I retire. Bring it on.