Stateside Daily Archive3 Jun 2025

A spring risotto recipe with Abra Berens

Abra Berens, cookbook author and culinary director at Granor Farm in Three Oaks, offered a risotto recipe that works as the perfect catchall for your farmers market finds this spring.

After you hear her tips, find the full recipe below:

Spring Risotto

This risotto can absorb any random spring vegetables like asparagus or ramps even baby carrots or radish. I just slice them thinly or into a small dice and then add in place of the peas. The broth is a great way to use up old parmesan rinds, but isn’t strictly necessary.

1 onion, sliced thinly
4 cloves garlic, minced
½ cup dry white wine
1 ½ cup risotto rice
8 cups water, parmesan broth, or stock, brought to a boil
2 cups shelled peas, fresh or frozen
1 lemon, zest and juice

In a large frying pan, heat a glug of olive oil over medium heat
Add the onion and garlic with a hefty pinch of salt and sweat until soft but not browned
Add the wine and reduce until dry
Add the rice and toast for a couple of minutes
Add a ladle full of hot liquid to the rice and stir continuously until the liquid is absorbed
Continue with an additional ladle of liquid and stir until that is absorbed
Continue adding ladle after ladle of liquid allowing to absorb fully between additions
When the rice is 90% cooked, add the peas and an additional ladle of liquid
Finish with the lemon zest and juice along
Taste and adjust seasoning as desired
To serve finish with a hefty glug of olive oil and any herbs or pea shoot over the top

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(1141)

Do you have the stuff to be a Great Lakes lighthouse keeper?

The Stateside Podcast is taking a summer break as producers prepare a new podcast project that's all about Michigan. You can download or stream the new Stateside On Air podcast, which is the full dail...

3 Jul 202518min

Chef Abra Berens on what to do with your summer strawberries

There is something special about strawberry season in Michigan: that brief moment of the year when we trade the pale gigantic plastic clamshell berries for the sweet, deep red jewels of in-season stra...

2 Jul 202513min

Could whitefish disappear from Lake Michigan and Lake Huron?

Whitefish populations in the lower Great Lakes have been declining for decades. Bridge Michigan environment reporter Kelly House joined Stateside to discuss what’s threatening the iconic fish, and wha...

1 Jul 202513min

M.L. Elrick on local journalism and the state of newspapers

This summer, the Scripps Howard Fund gave Detroit Free Press reporter M.L. Elrick an award for his column “On Guard”, in which he publishes all manner of exposes, in the muckraking tradition. Back in...

30 Jun 202523min

Around the world in 499 days

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27 Jun 202524min

Rising from the wreckage: Kegan Gill's Phoenix Revival

For a pilot, ejecting mid-flight is always a bad scenario. Lt. Kegan "Smurf" Gill narrowly escaped from a fighter jet traveling 695 miles per hour, approaching the speed of sound. It’s the fastest sur...

26 Jun 202524min

How Iranian American identity has shifted with global politics

Everything you hear on Stateside is made possible by listener support. Please become a member today and help keep Michigan Public strong. In the wake of the U.S. military airstrikes on Iranian nuclear...

25 Jun 202520min

Ann Arbor's summer reading game goes way beyond books

As the weather heats up in Michigan, so does the excitement of the Ann Arbor District Library's 15th annual Summer Game. We talked to AADL library director Eli Neiburger about the origins of the belov...

24 Jun 202519min