Other forms: risottos
Risotto is a creamy Italian rice dish stirred slowly. Make risotto, mushroom risotto, stir the risotto.
The cream comes from starch rubbed off the grains by stirring, not from any cream — which is why the rice must be a short round variety and why the stock goes in a ladle at a time. It is served loose enough to spread slowly on the plate.
1nounrisottoA creamy Italian rice dish.
“She made a creamy mushroom risotto, stirring the rice for half an hour.”
risotto is a dish.
Italian risotto comes from riso, rice, from Latin oryza, from Greek oryza.
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From Italian risotto, from riso (“rice”).
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