This time lesson from the master! We make a Carlo Cracco risotto recipe. I followed an online Masterclass from the Michelin star chef Cracco. Well known in Italy but also abroad with its restaurant “Cracco” in Milan. I got started with this perfect Italian risotto with scampi. This recipe is a classic “Risi e bisi”, which means rice with peas.
As you have often read in the various Italian recipes that I learned from other Italian chefs, there is one word that also applies here: simplicity! We use pure and simple ingredients and let them speak for themselves. This means that this risotto is not made with stock, but simply with boiling water!
Italian products
The Italians are quite strict about using the right products. Which in itself is of course also very good. The Dutch supermarkets are teeming with fake products. Like for example “Parrano” because normal Dutch Gouda cheese is with an Italian-sounding name.
While if you read carefully you will see that the real Italian product is just next to it. As Cracco himself says "if it is not available, leave it out". However, I made a small sidestep in this recipe. Simply because the shrimp he uses cannot be found here!
I always choose quality products that I buy at the fishmonger and these scampi went perfectly with this risi e bisi risotto.
Perfect Italian risotto with scampi
Now you also have the Carlo Cracco risotto recipe and you can get started with this risi e bisi. Before you start, I can certainly recommend that you delve into where you can buy the most beautiful genuine Italian products. There are plenty of nice delicacy shops in the Netherlands, but also various wholesale department stores. and beyond that, you just have to put a lot of love into this perfect Italian risotto with scampi.
You will definitely taste that! Side note: Yellow canned tomatoes are not available in every supermarket here in the Netherlands. You can easily find them online.
Here you will find the complete recipe with all the ingredients you need. I hope you have fun preparing the dish below.
Perfect Italian risotto with scampi
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- 320 gram Carnaroli rice
- 150 gram yellow tomato sauce or 1 can of peeled yellow tomatoes
- 100 gram butter
- 50 gram grated Parmesan cheese
- 150 gram fresh green peas
- 1 shallot - very finely chopped
- 12 big scampi
- 6 fresh mint
- ½ glass White wine
- lemon zest from an organic lemon
- extra virgin olive oil
- ½ tl salt
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And this is how you make it:
- Bring 1,5 liters of water to a boil in a saucepan and bring to a boil. (You may not use everything, but you want to have enough boiling water).
- Heat a little extra virgin olive oil and 20 grams of butter in a heavy-bottomed frying pan. Fry the finely chopped shallot over low heat without browning!
- Add the rice and fry it over a medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Deglaze with white wine. When the wine has completely evaporated, add the tomato sauce and salt (about a pinch of salt per person).
- Add the boiling water ladle by ladle until the liquid is perfectly absorbed. Add the peas halfway through the cooking time. Carlo indicates that the cooking time for "al dente" risotto is about 12 to 14 minutes. Keep the rice boiling and stir with the ladle.
- Slightly slit the scampi on the back, this ensures that they curl a little more during baking. Put them in a bowl with some olive oil, salt and the zest (grate of the zest) of half a lemon. Fry them briefly in a frying pan so that they are nicely cooked.
- Once the rice is cooked, remove from the heat and make the «mantecatura». This is a technical procedure that consists of binding the rice. To do this, add the freshly grated Parmesan all at once with 1 tbsp of the extra virgin olive oil, the rest of the butter and the finely chopped mint, stirring constantly to obtain a creamy risotto.
- Season the risotto with some salt and white pepper if necessary and place the three scampi per plate on the rice and serve immediately!
- Delicious bites!
Want to try even more recipes? Then make one of the dishes below:
This classic is a spaghetti cacio e Pepe.
And otherwise this recipe from Italian guest foodie Tim
Something easier? An orzo cannot fail!
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Perfect Italian risotto with scampi
Delicious shrimps are really recommended
Italian cuisine, my favorite cuisine
Learn from the master. Nice!