Whole grain risotto

[PeterLG]

While I realize this may be blasphemy, but...

Any good recipes out there for whole grain risotto? I'm not cooking much with traditional rice, and I really like the mouthfeel and bite that you get out of using organic whole grains. The downside is that you need to compensate with time (about 40 minutes instead of 18), and be pretty generous with butter and parmesan to create a proper emulsion in the end.

PC makes it (obv) faster, but at least in my experiments with that you end up easily breaking the rice and while good, the results feels slightly like porridge instead of risotto.

Anyone else experimenting with this? Any hints, recipes or references that you'd recommend to reach the optimal results.

[Ttogull]

Farro risotto is very good, particularly mushroom. Lots of recipes out there. I use the PC method, so I can't help with a non-PC version. It's definitely worth a try.

[PeterLG]

Farro is wheat, right? I'm referring to whole grain rice that hasn't been skinned & polished.

[weinoo]

Barley, but...I don't know if it's blasphemy...I just know it's not risotto.

[dcarch]

Barley, but...I don't know if it's blasphemy...I just know it's not risotto.

I have made good risotto with all kinds of grains, including regular rice, wild rice, couscous, ---- all without adding Arborio rice.

dcarch

Sous Vide Chicken Breast on Wild Rice Risotto

[Ttogull]

Farro is wheat, right? I'm referring to whole grain rice that hasn't been skinned & polished.

That was not clear in your original post. Anyway, if you are a fan of brown rice, you might consider giving farro a try. It is very good.

I had forgotten that I've also made barley risotto. Also very good.

You might consider doing a search for brown basmati risotto. I did this some time ago, and turned up a few recipes for brown rice risotto. Haven't actually tried them, but if dcarch's results are similar I'm going to have to do so very soon. That looks good.

[weinoo]

Barley, but...I don't know if it's blasphemy...I just know it's not risotto.

I have made good risotto with all kinds of grains, including regular rice, wild rice, couscous, ---- all without adding Arborio rice.

I think if you made couscous, you made pasta.

[dcarch]

Barley, but...I don't know if it's blasphemy...I just know it's not risotto.

I have made good risotto with all kinds of grains, including regular rice, wild rice, couscous, ---- all without adding Arborio rice.

I think if you made couscous, you made pasta.

You are not wrong. But it eats like risotto. :-)

dcarch

[Ashen]

I have used brown rice to make it and as OP noted it took about 40 mins if you follow the trad technique of slowly adding hot liquid and stirring . I tried it out of curiousity but I wouldn't really recommend it. It tasted fine but wasn't worth the effort.

Now on the alternate grain front, cooking millet using the method for risotto yeilds excellent results in a similar time frame to traditional risotto.