Monday, March 11, 2019

Risotto with potato chips

In Hamamatsu, you can see this smiling mark with logo in many places. It represents Kyorindo (杏林堂), a local drug store chain.


Today, I went to their shop in May One in the building of the train station. There were two kinds of potato chips available, and I intended to buy ones flavored with black pepper. But I found a bunch of recipe cards for potato chips “SEA SALT ONLY.” So, I bought this kind instead. I had never imagined before that potato chips can be used for cooking!


As you see on the pack, they are olive oil kettle cooked potato chips. The ingredients are just three: potatoes, olive oil, and sea salt. The net weight is 70g, and I think it is a suitable portion for me to eat at a time. This time, I made “Simple Risotto.” The original recipe included ingredients such as milk and a slice of cheese, but I changed the recipe like this.

1. Put two cups of cooked rice, 100 cc of soya milk, and a little soy sauce in a pot.
(I added some more soy milk later)
2. Warm them up and loose the cooked rice.
3. Put 35g of potato chips (one half of the portion) after crushing them in the pack.
4. Sprinkle some nutritional yeast to mix in the risotto.

Nutritional yeast is a source of vitamin B12 that is well known among vegans. It resembles powdered cheese, and I often use it for pasta. I think it was also suitable for risotto. My risotto looked quite different from the one on the recipe, but I was satisfied.


It was good, substantial, and simple to make. While eating, I thought of making it again by using some almond powder in addition to the nutritional yeast.

After a while, I ate the rest of potato chips.


They were crispy but I was a little surprised to feel how oily they were. When I ate the risotto, I didn’t notice such oiliness at all. How strange!

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