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Monzese Risotto, Risotto alla Monzese in Italian. As the word says, is typical of the city of Monza -near Milan - famous not only for the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, but also for the immense Monza's Park, its absolutely sublime historical architecture such as the Cathedral and Villa Reale, neoclassical style palace built in Monza by the Habsburgs as a private residence during the Austrian domination in the 18th century, for the character of Monaca di Monza in the novel 'I Promessi Sposi' by Alessandro Manzoni, and for its risotto as well, which is nothing but a close relative of Milanese risotto that beside saffron has the addition of sausage. The sausage is called Luganega, a pork sausage typical of Lombardy, and also Trentino South-Tyrol and Veneto. If you won't find Luganega, use any really fresh, good pork sausage and your Risotto alla Monzese will turn out just as delicious! Serves 4, Preparation time 20 mins + 2 h for meat broth, Cooking time 30 mins
Method For the broth: put it in 1 litre of cold water together with meat, onion, carrot and celery in a pot. ![]()
Slice up the sausages’ casing, take out the minced meat inside and cut it into chunks. Chop the onion not too finely and brown it in 25 gr of butter and a drizzle of Evoo. As soon as the onion softens, add sausage chunks making them well seasoned and browned for about 5 mins, turn up the heat and blend with half a glass of white or red wine.
As soon as you can't smell the alcohol anymore, lower the heat and add the rice making it toast for a few minutes, 2-3 max, then blend with the remaining wine by slightly raising the heat again, then lower the heat as soon as the wine has evaporated and start adding a ladle of boiling broth and stir. Cook risotto for about 20 minutes, adding more broth a little at a time, stirring continuously in the last 5 minutes. Halfway through cooking, add a glass of broth in which you have put the saffron pistils to soak or simply add the saffron powder and stir. ![]() When the rice is cooked, turn off the heat, add the rest of the butter possibly cold, a sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese and serve. |
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