Thick porridge has that same consistency as risotto without any cheese. This might heat up the authenticity debate again, but the trick works to get these somewhat fussy eaters to finish their dinner. Eating risotto sounds so much more fun than eating porridge, even though what they are eating really is a porridge over a risotto.
My porridge is a little more action-packed with lots of goodies than most porridges. In Japan, we have two types of porridges - zo-sui and okayu. Okayu is more like the Chinese porridges - they look white with chopped-up rice grains and only a few trimmings in it, which can range from eggs to pickled vegetables. Zo-sui on the other hand, is soupier with more vegetables and meat/fish pieces and firmer, whole pieces of rice grains. My porridge is definitely more zo-sui than okayu. Mine end up being much more of a rice-soup than a porridge.
I wonder what the Baby Cubs are going to think when they have real risotto for the first time... ..."Hey, this isn't real risotto!"...
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Rissoto also uses different type of rice. It's is much more gluetenous than Japanese rice, it's also shorter, and fatter. The thickness comes not only from the cheese, but actually from the rice as well. So Rissoto is a half step between Okayu and Zosui, but on the Zosui side, since you don't really put chunks of tofu in a Rissoto.
Zosui is too thick, Okayu is too thin, Risotto is just right and thus Goldilocks ate it all up. The bears are going to be mad when they find out!
Where does paella fit into the story?
This tricks (and others that the Baby Bear come up with all the time) work with the little cubs - everytime! We'll have a good laugh when they finally figure it out. :)
Uchi pu,
Interesting! I didn't know that the stickiness comes from the rice too. Hehe, I love my chunks of tofu in my 'rissoto'!
Arik,
Or messing up their sense of what is authentic!
JD,
That's a good one, especially for this family of Bears!
Paella is... ...more like Vietnamese claypot rice!
Papa,
I am a sneaky Big Sister!
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