Rice with Pork and White Wine

Riso alla Sarda con Vernaccia

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a first course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Sardinian Cookbook

By Giovanni Pilu and Roberta Muir

Published 2012

  • About

There are many traditional rice dishes in Italy other than risotto. Rice has been grown in Sardinia for many centuries and this is how we traditionally cook it; it’s not risotto, because it isn’t finished with butter (mantecare in Italian). The name for this dish in my dialect is Risu cun Pulpedda (other dialects would say purpuzza); pulpedda are the little bits of pork meat leftover from making the sausages after the pig h