Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen Today I'm doing a super simple students
risotto. A lot of you know for the next month we're going to be in this very
basic apartment we've rented and we've only got a two ring burner, two saucepans
and a microwave oven. Having said that I still want my food to be delicious and I
want to keep it fairly simple even the ingredients I bought for this I don't
want to get too many bits and pieces so I've kept that simple also, let's get on
and make this delicious chicken students risotto. Now I've got about 10 ounces or 300
grams of lean chicken here I've gone for chicken fillet because it's very cheap
here in Malaysia but you could use thigh meat or chicken breast. Remove these
little bits of sinew they're very easy to do, just turn the meat over, get
yourself a sharp knife and just drag it along take the sinew out it's a
little bit tough and then we're just going to dice this chicken up into cubes
and then we're going to take this chicken over to the hob. Now I'm using
an induction hob whether you've got gas or electric I've got a frying pan here
I'm popping it up to a fairly moderate to high heat, 12 on here, in the frying
pan I've got about a tablespoon of cooking oil. We want to brown this
chicken off so what I'm going to do is pop it in with the oil and just spread
your chicken pieces out in the pan. Now I've got some salt here I'm just going
to take a pinch we want to season all over this chicken so I've take a pinch
or two of salt I've got pepper as well, happen to have
white pepper but you could use white or black I want to put a fair bit of pepper
on there I shall be looking at the back of the chicken I want it to go really
nice and caramelized to add flavor to the meat. Okay when you start to see a
bit of color appearing on the chicken like that we can turn each piece over
Now I've turned the meat over and what I've got here are some dried herbs I'm going to
take about a dessert spoon of these and sprinkle them over the chicken
Now I've just brought in mixed herbs here and I've gone for those Italian
herb so check the packet make sure you've got the Oregano, the basil, the
parsley in there, they're the best flavors I think for this
dish. Now as the other side of the chicken starts to cook off I'm just going to
give this a mix through coat the herbs completely over the chicken and that's
pretty much it I'm turning the heat off now I'm going to pop this aside. Next
I've got my second pot, the only other pot I have in the apartment turn the
heat back on we are going for a modest to high heat I'm going to add a couple of
tablespoons of olive oil Now this olive oil has actually got
chilies in it so that a little bit of extra spice. Now I've got Brown rice
here you could use brown rice, red rice, white rice whatever you like and a
regular coffee mug I'm just going to fill up the coffee mug and this is just
a form of measurement really so I know how much water to put in. So that's one
cup of rice and I'm actually going to go for about one and a half cups. Now you're
going to love how simple this is, I'm just heating up the oil a little bit
with the rice on it and next because I used a cup and a half of rice I'm going
to use three cups of water. Hear that lovely sizzle that's what I'm looking
for so it's basically double the water to the rice three cups of water in there
I've got these chicken stock cubes I'm not going for fancy stock this is
just a regular stock cube but I am going to just crumble it up and I'm using two
stock cubes for extra flavor I've got my mixed herbs I'm going to sprinkle in
there another teaspoon or two, next light soy sauce, we want a couple of
tablespoons of light soy sauce Now this is a student meal so I've just got some
frozen mixed vegetables I am going to add a cup in there, so just got the peas
the sweet corn and the carrots, pop that in there as well .Now give this a mix
through. Now oil is important for the taste on the mouth on a simple dish like
this, I've got a little bit of sesame oil, you could use a bit more olive oil if
you like, just going to add another tablespoon or so into that. Now take your
chicken pieces, all that lovely crispy chicken goes in there, give this one last
mix through and as soon as you start to see it bubbling
like that we're going to take our heat and I'm going to turn that right down to
three so it's a very low simmer now. Now a lot of students may not have a great
kitchen but most of you have a smartphone, so set twenty five minutes on the timer
and off we go twenty five minutes from now it doesn't need covering by the way
that pot it's just going to absorb the moisture into the rice and evaporate
some of the moisture off, in twenty five minutes time that is going to be
perfectly cooked or there abouts we'll check it out. Now I've got about three
minutes left to go and I want you to keep an eye on the rice at this stage
just come in here close, now you see the rice has puffed up beautifully, in this
edge here we've got still a little bit of moisture ,what I will do now is just
give this a stir through and you can see at the bottom most of the liquid has
vanished but you do want to keep an eye on it for the last few minutes you don't
want it to get too dry and end up sticking to the bottom of the pan, which
will happen if you have the heat too high or if your pan bottom is too thin
so just keep an eye on it, you can see how lovely and moist that rice is now
Now there's the alarm going off and you can see I'm just going to turn the heat
off now, this is the only bit you really have to keep an eye on the last few
minutes mine has been pretty much perfectly twenty five minutes on this
hob. We want our rice to be plump and moist so now I can actually serve this
straight away let's make sure we get a decent amount of chicken in there as
well. Make sure you take the pot off of the heat at this point and this is ready
to serve. Now if your student budget will run to it a little bit of Parmesan
cheese or parmigiano and we're just going to grate this over the top of our
rice. Now I've added a couple of cherry tomatoes on there just for some
photographs but come in here and take a look at this, the rice is still beautiful
and moist and for the minimum effort we are rewarded with a delicious student's
risotto I'm going to give this a try. Oh that is packed full of flavor it's so
delicious I suspect even if you're not the student you should give this dish a
try because it is so simple it tastes so good. Please let me know in the comments
down below what you think and if you give this a try tell me if you've gone
for some variations, maybe you're going to make it with fish, maybe going to do
it with pork or some other ideas you might come up with and as always if
you've enjoyed this video please share it across on social media with any of
your friends and don't forget on this Sunday will be doing a sweet dish to go
with this savory dish, so check that out as well be good and I will see you in
the next video. Take care.