Check out the: recipe of risotto alla milanese

Ingredients | 2 servings

• 2 veal cut of ossobucos
• Sage & Rosemary & Garlic
• 1 cup Italian soffritto veggies (carrot, celery, and onion)
• 2-3 tbsp of Wheat flour (for coating the meat)
• 1/2 cup White wine
• 1/2 cup Tomato puree/passata
• 1 knob of butter
• Extravirgin Olive Oil
• Chopped Parsley
• Salt and black pepper

Ingredients for risotto

• 150g/5.2oz Arborio or Carnaroli rice
• 2 knobs of Butter
• 50g grated Parmesan
• 1/2 cup white Wine
• 300g/10.5oz Broth
• half Onion (grated)
• a pinch of Saffron

Preparation

Choose a thick pot like a dutch oven to cook ossobuco.

– Sauté aromatic herbs in a bit of olive oil and butter.

– Coat the meat in flour.

– Cut vertically the skin around meat 3-4 cuts per each (it facilitates the cooking process and meat stays flat)

– Place the meat in the hot pot, fry till the surface becomes golden.

– Pour in, wine. Wait till it evaporates.

– Add the Italian soffritto (diced: carrot, celery & onion) veggies and stir fry.

– Add the tomato puree/passata

– Mix the ingredients & pour in water (2-3 cups), cook for 2 hours on low heat.

➡️ Some use vegetable broth for more taste but since we are using Italian soffritto and big pieces of meat at the end of cooking, the taste will be great without any added broth.

– Stir once in a while, to avoid it sticks to the bottom

After 2 hours the ossobuco will be ready!

start to cook the saffron risotto 20mins before the ossobuco finishes cooking.

A quick recipe for Saffron Risotto:

⒈ In a small cup pour boiling water on a pinch of ground saffron. put it aside. ⒉ Grate half of onion in a pan, ⒊ Add risotto rice and toast it, ⒋ Add wine, when evaporates, ⒌ Pour in meat broth gradually and while the rice is absorbing stir continuously, ⒍ After 14-16 mins depends on how you like the risotto “al dente” 7. Pour in saffron water, stir for 1 minute then 7. Turn off the heat 8. Add parmesan cheese & butter and do “mantecazione” (mix lively) so you’ll have a creamy risotto. (see the step by step recipe of risotto)

Ossobuco is ready to be served

Notes

• Many restaurants in Milan, serve the ossobuco beside the risotto, but I suggest to place the ossobuco on a “bed” of risotto so all the flavors from meat goes in the risotto.
• Osso means bone and buco means hole. That’s why the bone marrow should be visible in the dish.

Spread the creamy risotto layer as a base.

Place the juicy ossobuco on top.

Buon appetito ☺️

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The cream combines and balances perfectly the flavors that mostly released from the shrimps, and when the pasta goes in, it absorbs all that goodness from the pan. This dish cooks very quickly, the only hassle will be the preparation of each element.

Ingredients | 2 servings

• 160g/5.6oz Small Pink shrimps
• 230g/8oz chopped zucchini
• half cup cream
• 220g spaghetti pasta
• 5-6 Tigre Shrimps or any “big” shrimp of your choice
• fresh mint or basil leafs
• 2 clove of Garlic
• Extra virgin Olive Oil
• Ground Parmesan Cheese
• Salt and Black pepper
• Lime zest

Preparation

– Bring the salty pasta water to boil.

Meanwhile:

– Sauté the chopped zucchini with 1 clove of garlic until the zucchini become slightly soft.

– Add the small shrimps, salt, pepper and stir.

– (back to pasta) Add the pasta to the boiling salty water (stir occasionally, to avoid the pasta from sticking).

– Pour cream in the pan and keep stirring till it becomes slightly dense.

– Sautè just for 2 minutes in a different pan the tiger shrimps with garlic, salt & black pepper. We’ll serve them on top of pasta for each dish.

– Save 1 cup of pasta water.

– Remove pasta 2-3mins prior to its cooking time from the heat, and toss it in the cooking pan.

– Add chopped fresh mints (or basil) and finish cooking the pasta in the sauce for another 2 mins. Turn off the heat.

– Sprinkle parmesan cheese and mix lively it helps to create a creamy texture with the liquid (pasta water) in the pan

Serve the pasta with grilled tiger shrimps, lime zest on top.

Notes

• Instead of mint also the parsley is suitable with fish.
• This dish is comfort food in many Italian houses, with frozen shrimps and zucchini in the fridge you are ready to go.

Buon appetito! ☺️

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