Finishing risotto with olive oil or butter - Lidia (2024)
Olive oil or butter? Both have an amalgamating property, bringing everything together texturally, that is always used to ‘finish’ risotto.
Many people mistakenly think that butter, and lots of it, is required as the finish, to make risotto creamy. Olive oil at the end adds a nice complexity that does not alter the essential flavor of the risotto: it is, in my opinion, a cleaner finish. I like using olive oil as a finish with fish risotto and some vegetable risottos, because it leaves the pristine flavor of the fish and vegetables clear and vibrant.
Butter, on the other hand, is a marvelous amalgamator: it makes the risotto even creamier, and obviously, buttery. I use it with all meat, all mushroom, and some vegetable risottos. The butter makes it rich and creamy, magnifies and to some extent alters the flavor. This can be desirable and there are many risotti where I love to use it. For instance, butter has the effect in tomato sauces of balancing the acidity, but it changes the taste in a way that olive oil doesn’t.
Olive oil at the end adds a nice complexity that does not alter the essential flavor of the risotto: it is, in my opinion, a cleaner finish. I like using olive oil as a finish with fish risotto and some vegetable risottos, because it leaves the pristine flavor of the fish and vegetables clear and vibrant.
According to Salvatore, it all depends on the ingredients. The chef prefers oil over butter (and oil works particularly well with seafood risottos), but butter is better for vegetable-based dishes like Rampoldi's black truffle with mushroom or mixed vegetable and ginger risotto.
Our basic recipe includes healthy Butter olive oil as a butter substitute, fresh Parmesan, chicken stock, white wine and a flavourful splash of infused white balsamic according to your palette and canvas.
In addition to rice as the main ingredient, classic risotto also contains a small amount of onion or shallot sautéed in butter, dry white wine, hot stock, vegetables or mushrooms, and different aromatics.
Warming the broth before adding it to the warm rice coaxes more starch out of each grain of rice and helps prevent it from overcooking. Cool broth takes longer to warm up in the risotto pan and may shock the grain into holding onto its starches while the rice itself continues to cook.
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