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    CornRisotto

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    A black bowl of creamy corn risotto flecked with sweet corn and green herbs100+ cooks
    ★ 4.4
    • Total time:40min
    • Your hands-on time:10min you
    • Longest hands-free stretch:23min free

    How upliance makes corn risotto, step by step

    CHOP
    STIR
    HEAT
    MASH
    READY
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    Corn risotto. Done.
    10 min30 min
    1. upliance, upliance

      This cooks it.

      • CHOP
      • SAUTÉ
      • STIR
      • COOK
      +−What is it?

      upliance is a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen. It weighs, chops, sautés, stirs and cooks, and the screen tells you what to drop in next. Scroll to watch it make corn risotto from above, including the long stir that risotto is famous for.

    2. You, 8 min

      Peel garlic, halve onion

      +−How rough?

      Peel 8 garlic cloves (the longest job here, about 3 minutes). Peel 1 onion and cut it in 2. Trim and wash 2 celery stems. Pull the stems off 1½ green chillies. Rinse 140 g rice and 150 g sweet corn. No fine chopping: that's the jar's job.

    3. You, 30 s

      Drop 1 of 4

      +−What goes in

      8 peeled garlic cloves, 1½ green chillies, 1 onion cut in 2 and 2 celery stems. upliance weighs them as they land.

    4. Line drawing: scraping the jar sides with a spatula
      upliance, 10 s

      Chops it fine

      +−No knife?

      No knife, no tears, no stringy celery. With the lid and crown on, the blade chops the onion, garlic, celery and chilli fine in about 10 seconds. When it stops, scrape the sides down once with the spatula.

    5. You, 15 s

      Drop 2 of 4

      +−What goes in

      2 tbsp pomace olive oil over the chopped aromatics. Then lift the crown off the lid.

    6. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, 3 min

      Sautés till soft

      +−Why crown off?

      With the crown off so the moisture escapes, upliance sautés the onion, garlic and celery in olive oil for 3 minutes, stirring slowly by itself, till soft and the raw garlic smell is gone.

    7. You, 15 s

      Drop 3 of 4

      +−What goes in

      150 g sweet corn kernels, rinsed. The crown stays off.

    8. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, 5 min

      Sautés the corn

      +−Why?

      upliance stirs the corn through the soft aromatics for 5 minutes with the crown still off, so it takes on the garlic and turns sweet before any liquid goes in.

    9. You, 1 min

      Drop 4 of 4

      +−What goes in

      The rest, in three quick adds: 140 g rinsed rice, 1 bay leaf and a 20 g cheese cube; then 370 g milk and 350 ml water; then 1 tbsp oregano seasoning, 1 tsp salt and ¼ tsp black pepper. Crown back on.

    10. upliance, 23 min

      Stirs the risotto. Not you.

      23MIN FREEno standing, no stirring
      +−What's the jar doing?

      The bit that usually keeps you at the stove. With the lid on, upliance cooks the rice in the milk and keeps it moving for 23 minutes, turning it gently, then stirring slowly, then again, so nothing catches and the starch turns the whole pot creamy. It gives one last short turn when the heat goes off.

    11. You, 1 min

      Oregano, chilli flakes. Serve.

      +−Finish

      Spoon the risotto into bowls and pick out the bay leaf. Sprinkle ½ tbsp oregano seasoning and ½ tsp chilli flakes on top, and eat it hot: it keeps thickening as it sits.

    Your 40 minutes, split

    You: 10 min
    peel garlic · 4 drops · garnish
    upliance: 30 min23 free
    chop · sauté · stir · cook
    upliance: a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen

    You: 10 min. upliance: 30 min.

    Get upliance
    Full recipeIngredients by drop and every step+−

    A creamy, one-pot corn risotto made the Indian-kitchen way: sona masoori rice cooked slowly in milk with sweet corn, garlic, celery and a cube of cheese. The 20-odd minutes of standing and stirring that risotto usually asks for? The jar does that.

    Italian. Veg one pot meal. Serves 2. About 40 min start to finish; about 10 min of it is you. Cooked 100+ times on upliance.

    Ingredients (2 servings)

    Drop 1chopped by the jar

    • Garlic peeled8 cloves
    • Green chilli top stem removed1½
    • Onion peeled, cut in 21
    • Celery trimmed, washed2 stems

    Drop 2sautéd soft

    • Pomace olive oil 2 tbsp

    Drop 3sautéd with the aromatics

    • Sweet corn kernels, rinsed150 g

    Drop 4cooked and stirred ~23 min

    • Sona masoori rice rinsed140 g
    • Bay leaf 1
    • Cheese cube 20 g
    • Milk 370 g
    • Water 350 ml
    • Oregano seasoning 1 tbsp
    • Salt 1 tsp
    • Black pepper ¼ tsp

    To serve

    • Oregano seasoning ½ tbsp
    • Chilli flakes ½ tsp

    Steps

    1. Prep (you, ~8 min). Peel 8 garlic cloves. Peel the onion and cut it in 2. Trim and wash 2 celery stems. Remove the stems from 1½ green chillies. Rinse the rice and the sweet corn.
    2. Drop 1 (you, 30 s). Put the garlic, green chilli, onion and celery into the jar.
    3. upliance, 10 s. With the lid and crown on, it chops the aromatics fine. Scrape down the sides.
    4. Drop 2 (you, 15 s). Add 2 tbsp pomace olive oil and take the crown off the lid.
    5. upliance, 3 min. It sautés the onion, garlic and celery, stirring slowly by itself, till soft.
    6. Drop 3 (you, 15 s). Add 150 g sweet corn. Leave the crown off.
    7. upliance, 5 min. It stirs and sautés the corn with the aromatics.
    8. Drop 4 (you, ~1 min). Add 140 g rice, 1 bay leaf and a 20 g cheese cube. Pour in 370 g milk and 350 ml water. Add 1 tbsp oregano seasoning, 1 tsp salt and ¼ tsp black pepper. Put the crown back on.
    9. upliance, ~23 min. With the lid on, it cooks the rice in the milk and keeps turning and stirring it the whole time, till the rice is tender and the risotto is thick and creamy. This is your free time: about 23 minutes with no standing and stirring.
    10. Serve (you, 1 min). Spoon into bowls, remove the bay leaf, and top with ½ tbsp oregano seasoning and ½ tsp chilli flakes.
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