Italian

Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice)

Name: Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1.5 cups rice; 3 tbsp butter; 1/2 cup grated parmesan; 1/2 tsp salt

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Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups rice
3 tbsp butter
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and cook the rice until tender, about 15 minutes, then drain.
Return the hot rice to the pot with the butter and toss until melted.
Stir in the parmesan until creamy.
Serve at once, while it is still warm.

Watch how to cook Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 410 kcal
Protein: 10 g
Carbs: 63 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 510 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Riso in Bianco (Plain Buttered Rice) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.