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Viewed: 3 - Published at: a year agoIngredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 4 pounds vine-ripened tomatoespeeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 1/4 cup vegetable stock or canned broth
- 1 1/2 teaspoons honey
- 6 fresh basil leaves
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 5 large unpeeled garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon oilve oil
- 4 anchovy filets, mashed
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh oregano
- 3 3/4 cups vegetable stock or canned broth
- 1/4 fennel bulb, finely chopped
- 1 cup arborio rice (about 7 ounces)
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/3 cup dry white wine
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese (about 4 ounces)
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Peanut oil, for frying
- 24 Calamata olives (about 5 ounces), halved and pitted
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
Method
- Heat the oil in a large nonreactive saucepan.
- Add the garlic and cook over moderately high heat until lightly browned, about 1 minute.
- Add the tomatoes, vegetable stock, honey and basil and bring to a boil.
- Lower the heat to moderate and simmer, stirring, until the tomatoes break apart and the sauce thickens, about 20 minutes.
- Strain the sauce, pressing down on the solids and season with salt and pepper.
- Preheat the oven to 325.
- Toss the garlic with 1 tablespoon of the oil, wrap in foil and roast for about 45 minutes, or until tender; let cool.
- Slip the garlic from its skins and mash with the anchovies, parsley, basil and oregano.
- In a medium saucepan, heat the vegetable stock over moderate heat; keep warm.
- Heat the remaining 1/4 cup oil in a heavy, nonreactive, medium saucepan.
- Add the fennel and cook over low heat, stirring, until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add the rice and bay leaves and stir to coat with the oil; try not to break up the bay leaves.
- Stir in the wine and simmer until absorbed, about 2 minutes.
- Add one-quarter of the warm stock to the rice and cook, stirring constantly, until absorbed, about 5 minutes.
- Add the remaining stock in 3 batches; cook, stirring constantly until the stock is absorbed before adding more.
- The rice is done when it is just cooked through and lightly bound with creamy liquid, about 25 minutes total cooking time.
- Stir in the garlic-anchovy paste with the last batch of stock.
- When the risotto is done, add the butter and Parmesan and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 inch of peanut oil in a medium skillet.
- Coat the olives with the buttermilk and dredge in the flour.
- Fry the olives over high heat until crisp and golden, about 2 minutes.
- Transfer to paper towels; drain and keep warm.
- Rewarm the tomato sauce and pour it into 4 shallow bowls.
- Mound the risotto in the center, garnish with the fried olives and serve at once.
