REFLECTION…
For this lab we had to create our own risotto from scratch as a group. This was exciting because I’ve never had a risotto before but I’ve definitely heard of it so i was pretty eager to try it.
The methods involved in creating this recipe were knife skills which we used to prepare the veggies going into the risotto, saute where we had to all choose one veggie that we would saute to be added into the risotto later on in the recipe, Rice cookery was for cooking the rice where we would slowly add broth to the rice little by little so the rice could absorb it which can help with the overall flavour of the dish, finally we used the one pan dish method which meant that the whole risotto would be made in a single pot or in our case a large cast iron pan.
What went well for me was communication with my group, we all did a pretty good job doing that, our final product also turned out pretty well, and finally we finished the risotto in pretty good time.
What i need to work on in the future is my organization skills when preparing for a recipe, I was kind of confused in the start trying to figure out how much water we needed to put in the pot and other small things like that. I also need to work on taking a little more responsibility in the kitchen like helping with adding the water to the rice for example.
Overall i was really proud of how the risotto turned out, the rice was slightly under cooked but it still tasted really good either way. I would love to make this again and hopefully next time i’ll completely cook the rice, i would probably make this for my family because they like risotto’s and i would love to show them how I’ve been in the class so far.
For these reasons i would give myself 4.5/5 stars on this recipe.
