Make Risotto in 3 Minutes and Ramen-Ise Rice With Baking Soda
The same method that turns regular pasta into a pasta with the flavor and texture of fresh ramen can also enhance rice dishes and even help you make a chewy perfect risotto in three minutes.
Well, technically three minutes plus an hour and a half (no hands) soak time.
Lucky Peach explains that the main thing is to soak the rice in a bath with baking soda and salt dissolved in water. After an hour and a half, drain and rinse the rice, place it in a pot of boiling water, and in three minutes you will have tender and chewy Ramen Iziz rice.
Taking it one step further, use the same rice soaked in baking soda, but this time cook it like a risotto – in broth until the broth evaporates:
We put one part rice and about five parts hot, pressurized smoked turkey broth in a saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil. We cooked it with a continuous boil. The stock evaporated. The rice has thickened. Rice grains have retained their shape and structure; they did not disintegrate. When the rice and broth were cooked together, they took on the texture of a risotto. We finished the rice with a lump of butter and grated Reggiano Parmesan. We had a creamy, chewy, perfect risotto in three minutes. And remember, the rice was soaked in baking soda water the night before, and after a night’s rest, it was still perfect, flawless.
This can be a great way to make risotto without having to stand in front of the stove for hours while constantly adding broth.
(By the way, baking soda is behind the homemade ramen noodles we saw earlier.) If you want to read more ramen than you probably have time, visit Lucky Peach.
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