Name: Bomba di Riso (Baked Rice Casserole Filled with Sausage and Cheese)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ¾ pound fresh mozzarella cheese, cut into ½-inch cubes; 4 eggs, lightly beaten; Freshly grated nutmeg to taste; 1½ cups (about ¾ pound) ricotta cheese; ⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese; 1 cup shelled peas, cooked in boiling water until tender and drained (optional); 2½ cups Arborio rice; ½ pound sweet Italian sausages, or Little Pork Meatballs from Bari (); ½ cup diced prosciutto (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Enoteca

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2001

About

Instead of frying the cooked rice as for risotto al salto (), here it is baked as a bomba or timballo. What you want is a crispy golden exterior and melting cheese inside. The fillings may vary according to what you have on hand. Cheese is most often used, but little meatballs, or chopped meat or vegetables mixed with cheese, work well, too.