My Favorite Ina Garten Recipe Is So Lazy, It's Brilliant

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It's no surprise that Ina would simplify a complicated recipe into a convenient weeknight dinner.

Honestly, cookbook author and national treasure, they can't do anything wrong in our eyes.

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Our kitchen queen also has a trick for simplifying a time-consuming, hands-on dish that most people would make more often if it were easier to prepare. Now, we're even more obsessed with Ina, and we think this trick is a real game-changer.

6. Serve and enjoy.

That's where Ina's trick comes into play.

One of Ina's previous cooking shows reveals her straightforward method: baking risotto in the oven. Rather than continuously stirring the risotto at the stove, she puts the dish in the oven since, as she says, "constant stirring is annoying."

Is using this method cheating? Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. Either way, now we can make homemade risotto any night of the week.

This baked risotto recipe of hers is foolproof. I've been using it for years and won't make it any other way," one TikTok commenter said. Ina simply says, "It's fantastic.

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Any oven-safe container with a lid, such as a pot, can be used.

She adds what's in the bowl:

• One and a half cups of Arborio rice.
• She keeps five cups on hand, setting the last one aside for later use.

Next, she puts the lid on and places the pot in a 375 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes, she takes it out of the oven and adds "a lot of yummy things." Back on the stove, she stirs in:

• One cup of warm chicken broth
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• 3 tablespoons diced butter
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She aggressively stirs everything for 2 to 3 minutes to unlock the starch in the rice and make it nice and thick. (Honestly, that's a small amount of stirring, but we'll take 3 minutes over 30 minutes any day.)

Finally, Ina adds:

• 1 cup frozen peas
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper

Once all the ingredients are blended together, she heats the mixture up on the stove.

“The good news is that you can put anything you want in this type of risotto,” she says. “If you want saffron or artichokes, you simply add them to the basic mixture.”

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