Recipes

Risotto with scallops and saffron cream
Ingredients for 4 people

320 g Flora Classico rice
6 scallops
The juice of 1 orange
1 onion
40 g butter
1 l vegetable stock
salt
pepper
evo oil
For the sauce:
2 small packages of saffron
40 g butter
2 teaspoon of flour
1 ladleful of stock

PREPARATION

Chop finely an onion and sauté it with a little bit of oil. Divide the orange part of the scallops from the shell. Cut it into small pieces, put it in the pan together with the mirepoix, and let it cook for a few minutes adding the orange juice. Add the rice and wet with the broth until it’s fully cooked. Meanwhile, cook the white part of the scallops with a little bit of oil in a non-stick pan, until it is slightly toasted.
To prepare the saffron cream, melt the butter in a saucepan and thicken adding the flour. Then, add broth and melt the saffron in it. Finally, mix until it become a soft cream.
When the risotto is ready, plate it with a scallop on each plate.
Complete with saffron cream.

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