Prepare Risotto In The Rice Cooker: The Best Tips and Tricks

How to prepare your risotto in the rice cooker

It is best to set your rice cooker to a low or medium setting. If your rice cooker only has one setting, that’s not a problem either.

• Allow your rice cooker to preheat for a few minutes. Once the device is up to temperature, put in some olive oil or butter.
• Dice onions or shallots and a little garlic if you like. Sweat everything a little and then add the risotto rice.
• Once the rice is translucent, you can deglaze it with a dash of white wine. Now keep adding a little broth.
• Whether vegetable, chicken, or beef broth is up to you. Once the rice has absorbed the liquid, repeat the process.
• When the rice has reached your desired consistency, it’s done. Now you can add some butter and parmesan to refine it.

A recipe for an easy mushroom risotto

For this recipe, you will need 500g risotto rice, 3 tbsp olive oil, 500ml stock, a dash of white wine, an onion, 2 cloves of garlic, a pack of mushrooms, basil, and parsley to taste, and optional butter and parmesan.

• Sauté onions, garlic, and rice in olive oil as described above.
• Then add the white wine and broth and allow the rice to absorb the liquid.
• While the rice is cooking, you can sauté the mushrooms in butter or olive oil in an extra pan. If you are a little lazy about washing up dishes, you can start with the onions in the rice cooker. Porcini mushrooms are great, of course, but champions work just as well.
• Then fold the mushrooms into the rice and also add the chopped herbs. Then you can refine it with parmesan and butter.
• Season with salt and pepper and the risotto is ready.