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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Allow the saffron to infuse for 24 hours in a cup of warm water, about two pistils per person is sufficient. | 2. Prepare a good vegetable broth by boiling the chopped celery, one of the onions coarsly chopped, the chopped carrot, half the parsley and the chopped potato. Boil for about an hour in a good sized pan with 2 liters of water, salt to taste. stir often. | 3. Once you have prepared the broth begin the preparation of the risotto. | 4. Fry the other finely chopped onion in olive oil and when it become translucent add a handful of rice for each person. mix with the onion until well glazed with the oil, about 2 to 3 minutes. | 5. Then deglaze with the white wine. | 6. Now begin to add the broth a ladleful at a time, wait until the broth has been absorbed by the rice before adding the next, don't leave the pan! you have to stir constantly. | 7. At the end of cooking, when the rice is cooked but still slightly al dente - with a little bite - pour in the saffron water turn up the heat to evaporate the excess water. | 8. Add a piece of butter, the rest of the parsley, finely chopped and grated mild cheese to taste. | 9. Take off the heat and leave to rest and absorb the flavour of the saffron for five minutes, give a final stir and serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
saffron	8			17.36	3.6607	0.6401	0.3276
celery	1	stalk		10.24	1.9008	0.4416	0.1088
onion	2			128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
carrot	1			52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
parsley	1	bunch		-	-	-	-
potato	1			-	-	-	-
risotto rice	2	cups		-	-	-	-
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
white wine	1	glass		-	-	-	-
butter	30			2565.0	117.855	80.145	216.0
cheese	50		mild	23827.5	157.95	1444.5	1939.95

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.