{"id":491,"date":"2008-11-24T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:21:38","slug":"reverse-risotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Risotto"},"content":{"rendered":"

We invited Tanya’s folks over for supper on Saturday. I had to do some tech support for a friend in Somerset West, then went back via Bellville to get an O ring from the hardware store and a bunch of supplies from the Fruit & Veg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Found a rather large (it was still the smallest on the shelf) hunk of marinated pork loin roast. Which I had to cut in half to get it to fit my black pot.<\/p>\n

I also went via the Constantia Aroma (for bubbly) and Pick & Pay, where I found a large bunch of beetroot for R5.99.<\/p>\n

Tangent : As a kid, I didn’t understand why my mother liked asparagus from tins or beetroot from jars. Then I met fresh asparagus and beetroot, which both really rawk. I suspect my mother was searching for that taste, the canned stuff being a weak shadow.<\/p>\n

So I cooked the beetroot according to the first recipe I googled<\/a>. Topped and tailed them, rubbed the skin off, sliced and stuck them in the fridge. (First time I used the electric domino, works well).<\/p>\n

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Back to the roast. I followed a recipezaar recipe<\/a> I’d used before, except that with the pork being pre-marinaded, I skipped step 3. I also made mustard-roasted potatoes<\/a>, which were excellent. Persuaded Tanya to steam some veggies, and skipped making the braised sauerkraut<\/a> (in hindsight, probably a mistake). But nobody noticed, because the pork was excellent. And then some.<\/p>\n

I wanted to make gravy from the juice in the pot, but it was very fatty, so we skipped that in favour of the ready-made stuff. And I must say, the Denny brand gravy is excellent.<\/p>\n

So, on to the reverse risotto. After the juice cooled down, I removed most of the fat (and threw it away, I should have kept it, but right now space is an issue — I need to get a chest freezer organised). Heated the pot up, and fried rice in the oil, added wine — you know, classic risotto recipe. Except then I added water only, figuring that all the tasty bits were in the pot already.<\/p>\n

And they were. My oh my, this is good rice.<\/p>\n

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