Risotto Recipe 1

Ingredients for Risotto

• ½ pound rice
• 1 small onion
• 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• ½ pint tomato sauce
• About 1 pint good stock
• Salt, pepper, nutmeg,
• ½ teaspoon saffron

Instructions

1. Wash rice in several courses of water, drain and dry.
2. Peel and chop onion.
3. Melt vegetable shortening in stewpan; when hot add onion, fry over gentle fire until light fawn color, then add rice; shake pan over fire for a few minutes, so as to fry rice a little.
4. Next add seasoning, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and saffron; moisten with little stock, and add more as rice begins to swell.
5. When stock is used up, gradually add sauce.
6. When rice is tender mix in grated cheese.
7. It is then ready to serve.
8. In preparing this dish remember that rice should be well done, and should be neither too dry nor too moist.