Quail Risotto (Risotto con le quaglie)
Quail Risotto (Risotto con le quaglie)
Ingredients
2 whole quail,
cleaned
2 leaves fresh
sage
4 thin
slices pancetta
2 tablespoons butter,
divided, or as needed
2 tablespoons brandy
1 cup beef
stock, divided
½ cup dry white
wine, divided
salt and ground black
pepper to taste
1 onion, finely
chopped
1 cup Arborio
rice
4 tablespoons grated
Parmigiano cheese, divided
Directions
Season the insides of the
quail with salt and pepper and insert a sage leaf into each. Wrap each with
pancetta slices, fastening with toothpicks.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter
in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Brown quail, moistening with brandy, 1/2
of the beef stock, and 1/2 of the wine, until most of the wine has evaporated,
5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, and transfer mixture to a baking
dish.
Roast in the preheated
oven until quail are no longer pink in the centers and juices run clear, about
12 minutes, moistening with juices as needed.
Remove baking dish from
the oven and transfer juices to the saucepan; add quail. Cover and cook over
low heat, turning frequently, for another 6 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat 1/2
tablespoon butter in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat.
Add onion; cook and stir until the onion begins to turn golden brown at the
edges, about 2 minutes. Pour in rice and stir until coated in butter and
starting to toast, 2 to 3 minutes.
Reduce heat to medium and
stir in remaining wine. Let wine simmer until it has mostly evaporated, then
stir in 1/3 of the remaining broth; continue stirring until the rice has
absorbed the liquid and turned creamy. Repeat this process twice more, stirring
risotto constantly, 15 to 20 minutes.
Stir remaining butter and
1/2 of the Parmigiano cheese into the risotto.
Serve each quail on a bed
of risotto. Drizzle edges of risotto with pan juices and sprinkle remaining
Parmigiano cheese on each quail. Serve hot.

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