Croatian Dalmatian Black Risotto Crni Rizot Recipes

CROATIAN DALMATIAN BLACK RISOTTO (CRNI RIZOT)

Steps:

• Wash octopuses carefully and thoroughly, take out the bone, and ink-bags put aside. Cut octopus into stripes.
• Finely mince garlic and parsley leaves.
• Mince onion and sauté it on olive oil. When onion becomes soft, add octopus, garlic, parsley, bay leaf, tomato, salt pepper and sauté it 30 minutes.
• After 30 minutes add 1 cup of wine and continue to sauté it. When octopus become soft, add what has left of wine.
• Wash rice in two (cold) waters and add to octopus. Cook rice according to manual time necessary (add water but count in the liquid you have already in a pot).
• Five minutes before ready add ink-bags. Put ink-bags one by one to decide how black you want your risotto. Cut hard sheep cheese into small cubes and add with ink-bags. This cheese will give the risotto rich and creamy taste.
• Cook for 2-3 minutes more and serve with grated parmesan cheese.

CROATIAN DALMATIAN RED RISOTTO (FISHERMAN'S RISOTTO)

Steps:

• Put olive oil in a pan, add garlic and sauté it for 30 sec, than add shrimps, squid and mussels and sauté it for 3 minute
• Add rice and let it be covered with oil and than add wine and cook it 2 minute until alcohol evaporates.
• Add tomato juice, salt, pepper, oregano and water. Mix everything and leave it cook for 15 minutes.
• If there is not enough water add only hot water. Before end (that's on you to decide) add hard cheese to melt in risotto.
• Serve hot and sprinkle with parmesan. Risotto must be creamy and resemble to sea during strong south-east wind in Adriatic: "jugo".

CROATIAN FISH "GREGADA"

Steps:

• For this meal you have to have large round pot with low rim.
• Prepare the potato: slice it in round thin pieces. Put it in a separate pot, cook until water starts to boil, cut the heat and leave it there.
• Put olive oil and garlic on heat and when starts to fry add fish sliced in pieces 3-6 cm large. DO NOT STIRR with any kind of ladle, just shake the whole pot.
• When fish starts to stick to pot add wine, salt, pepper, bay leaf and potato. Shake it well and add water to cover. Cook until potato is soft (15-20 min). At the end add parsley. Eat it with spoon.

CROATIAN DALMATIAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook potato with skin and when cooked, peel it.
• Cut peeled potato into slices (across). Put potato into a salad bowl, pour over olive oil and vinegar dissolved with half glass water (1 dcl). (It is much better if you season warm potato because it will soak oil, vinegar and seasoning much better.)
• Cut onion into thin rounds and add to potato. Add salt and pepper. At the end add hand cut basil leaves. Do not put too much basil - it must be surprise for consumer.
• Mix well. Wait until cools and serve.