There are many things you can use stale bread for, but this risotto recipe by Jamie Oliver might make you want to buy a ciabatta just to let it go stale. This recipe serves 8.
Ingredients:
- basic Risotto made immediately before, resting in a saucepan, covered
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 3 dried Thai chilies
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 6 fillets of salted anchovy in oil (you can get them in a tin or a jar in the deli)
- ½ stale loaf ciabatta, cut into chunks
- some olive oil
Instructions:
- Put the bread, garlic, chilies, and lemon zest in a food processor with some anchovy oil.
- Blend until you get a crumble, that’s going to be the pangrattato.
- Heat up a bit of olive oil in a large frying pan and fry the pangrattato until crispy and brown.
- Cool on some kitchen paper to soak the oil.
- Taste the risotto and add black pepper and Parmesan if necessary.
- Serve the risotto and add a thin layer of pangrattato to cover it.
