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Crab & Preserved Lemon Risotto Recipe

Crab & Preserved Lemon Risotto Recipe

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Ingredients:

Serving

3 cooked spanner crabs (see notes)
1 1/2 liters chicken stock
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 small brown onion, chopped
250 g vialone nano rice (or aborio)
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 preserved lemon, rinsed and dried, skin only diced
50 g salted butter
3 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese (optional)
salt, flakes
fresh ground white pepper , to taste
2 tbsp snipped chives

Directions:

Pick meat from crabs and set aside.
Heat stock in a saucepan until simmering, then maintain at this heat.
Heat olive oil in a large pan and fry onion over medium heat until soft but not coloured.
Add the rice and stir over a high heat until grains are well coated in oil and warmed through. Add white wine and stir until most of the liquid has been absorbed. Reduce heat to medium, add stock, a ladleful at a time, stirring constantly and allowing each ladleful to be absorbed before adding the next.
Continue until rice is tender, with a slight bite, and has a creamy consistency (about 20 minutes).
Add a final ladle or 2 of stock, preserved lemon, crabmeat, butter, parmesan (if using), salt (remembering that the butter, crab and preserved lemon are all salty) and pepper and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until all the butter is incorporated and the crab has broken up into thin wisps. The finished risotto should be quite soupy, the Venetians call it all'onde (wave-like).
Taste, add extra salt if needed, stir through chives and serve immediately.
Notes: You can use other types of crabs for this recipe, or 300g fresh crabmeat if you don't want to pick your own. Vialone nano is the preferred rice in the Veneto, where this soupy style of risotto is most popular, use arborio or carnaroli rice if it isn't available.

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Nutrition Facts

Per Serving Per 100 g

Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories	287.1 Kcal (1202 kJ)
Calories from fat	234.61 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	26.07g	40%
Cholesterol	30.68mg	10%
Sodium	189.79mg	8%
Potassium	59.19mg	1%
Total Carbs	7.5g	2%
Sugars	1.06g	4%
Dietary Fiber	0.4g	2%
Protein	1.77g	4%
Vitamin C	2.1mg	3%
Vitamin A	0.1mg	4%
Iron	0.1mg	0%
Calcium	52.9mg	5%

Amount Per 100 g
Calories	339.12 Kcal (1420 kJ)
Calories from fat	277.11 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	30.79g	40%
Cholesterol	36.23mg	10%
Sodium	224.17mg	8%
Potassium	69.92mg	1%
Total Carbs	8.85g	2%
Sugars	1.25g	4%
Dietary Fiber	0.47g	2%
Protein	2.09g	4%
Vitamin C	2.5mg	3%
Vitamin A	0.1mg	4%
Iron	0.1mg	0%
Calcium	62.5mg	5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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savory
bitter
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