Butter
Butter is a dairy ingredient used to finish risotto and dress filled pasta in Italian cooking.
- Family
- Dairy
- Risotto role
- Finishing off the heat
- Pasta reference
- Tortelli d’erbetta
At the table
Ente Nazionale Risi finishes risotto with butter off the heat. Emilia-Romagna Turismo describes tortelli d’erbetta served with melted butter and Parmigiano: butter finishes the rice in its pan or dresses the pasta.
Use salted or unsalted butter as called for in the recipe.
Cook with it
Agnolotti monferrini
Chitarra with lamb ragù and fried artichoke
Brodera: pork-rib risotto
Levante-Style Stamped Corzetti with Pine Nut and Marjoram Sauce
Bagna cauda with red and yellow peppers
Spinach and ricotta gnudi with butter and sage
Tuscan Chicken-Liver Crostini
Agnolotti del Plin Burro e Salvia
Canederli in Brodo
Cjarsons
Fonduta Valdostana
Frico con Patate

