Patent ID: 7550166

Claim:
A method of producing a frozen traditional risotto including the steps of: a) adding to rice the necessary liquid and particulate ingredients for preparing a risotto according to the sequence provided for by the traditional recipe and cooking all the above ingredients up to a desired cooking degree, wherein said traditional recipe requires toasting the raw, dry rice with oil and/or butter and onion and then cooking the rice with water and one or more additional ingredients, wherein the one or more additional ingredients are, or yield as a result of said cooking, a sauce, a broth, or a combination thereof; b) rapidly cooling the thus prepared risotto to a temperature of 0° to 4° C.; c) feeding the risotto into a dosing apparatus, which forms sphere-like portions of a predetermined weight or volume; d) subjecting said portion to ultra-fast freezing; and e) packaging a predetermined number of said frozen portions in suitable bags or boxes.