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Basic Risotto takes several minutes to prepare.

Basic Risotto takes several minutes to cook.

Basic Risotto makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Basic Risotto are:

1 med onion, finley diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 C Ariborio Rice
187 ml White Wine (1 single serving bottle)
32 oz Chicken Broth (1 box)
1 C Shredded Parmesan Cheese
1/2 C Butter (1 stick), cut into small cubes
olive oil

Here is how you make Basic Risotto:

Saute onion and garlic in olive oil until onion is translucent. Add rice and saute for about a minute or until rice just begins to toast. Add entire bottle of wine and cook over low heat stirring frequently until almost all of the liquid is absorbed. Add ~1/2 C. of broth and cook until almost abosorbed. Continue addding broth ~1/2 C. at a time until you have stirred all of it in and your risoto is nice and creamy. (Do not walk away and stir constanly until you get a feel for how fast the liquid absorbs. The first few additions will absorb much faster than than later additions.) Once all the broth is added and mostly absorbed, stir in the parmesan and butter. Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KNIKKI2000.

The nutritional information for Basic Risotto is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 609.9

• Total Fat: 34.6 g
• Cholesterol: 78.0 mg
• Sodium: 2,081.1 mg
• Total Carbs: 6.4 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
• Protein: 22.5 g