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Questions about preparing and serving risotto - an Italian high-starch rice dish which is cooked cooked in a flavoring broth.

Questions about preparing and serving risotto - an Italian high-starch rice dish which is cooked cooked in a flavoring broth.

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Why do I add stock to risotto slowly?

Risotto recipes always call for adding the stock slowly. Why do we do that? I've read in a couple of places it may help cooking the rice more evenly, or prevent it going stodgy?
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Can I use rice wine vinegar in risotto?

I don't tend to keep any white wine in the house for cooking and have a bottle of rice wine vinegar to use up - only used it once and don't know what else to use it for. Could I use rice wine vinegar at the start of cooking a risotto?
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General Principles of making risotto

I made risotto for the first time last sunday - thanks to the advice I got from the posts here and here. I came to know about risotto from this site (probably not the correct way to learn about the recipe, as the questions in this site deal with…
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How can I speed up cooking risotto?

I usually cook risotto in a wide-based, shallow pan. It always seems to take longer than the recipes would suggest. I've just seen a chef using a deeper saucepan. Would this help speed things up?
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Risotto preparation

If I was going to prepare 100 portions of a basic risotto part way to finish later on in saute pans for different flavours, how would I go about doing this? What would I cook a large batch in, would a stock pot be suitable? How many kilos of rice…
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can i mix arborio and carnaroli

I have 2 lbs of carnaroli rice and 1 lb of arborio rice, both the same brand. I need to make a recipe calling for 3 lbs total. The basic recipe on both boxes call for the same amount of liquid, but I've heard that some people use 1/2 the liquid for…
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