The Susanne

Think­ing about Hellstrøm earlier today reminded me that I’ve been want­ing to try making risotto for a while now. Risotto has always been one of my ‘scary foods’, espe­cially since watch­ing Hell’s Kit­chen where it seemed as if not a single epis­ode went by without someone get­ting yelled at by Gordon for making inedible(according to him) risotto.

The net­work (TV3) pub­lish a recipe from each epis­ode of Hellstrøm Rydder Opp on their web­site, and the recipe for the first epis­ode was risotto. I decided to try it, but couldn’t figure out the meas­ure­ments (8 small cups? what’s that? espe­cially as we use the metric system here in Norway and a ‘cup’ might be any­thing from an espresso cup to a huge mug). So I fol­lowed the recipe on the back of my rice packet instead.

Also I’d been plan­ning to make this for dinner today — so I settled on a com­prom­ise: risotto with garlic and tuna! I added some carrot to get some colour in there as I didn’t have any fresh chilli, and I must say I’m quite pleased with the result. The risotto turned out creamy, the rice was cooked per­fectly al dente, and the fla­vours of the tuna, garlic, and parmesan com­ple­men­ted each other really well. Deli­cious! Will def­in­itely be making more risotto in the future now I’m no longer intim­id­ated by it! And because tuna is so inex­pens­ive I do believe I’ll be trying to eat more of that, too. I really do love a piece of warm toast with tuna and salt — but today’s risotto suc­cess has inspired me to get out of my com­fort zone and try dif­fer­ent things. What else would be good with tuna, I wonder?

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