Seafood Made Simple: Flex your mussels with this risotto

Saffron, the hand-picked and dried stigmas of the crocus sativus flower, provides the risotto with its distinctive warm yellow hue and a wonderful floral undertone flavour to this dish.

Mussel and saffron risotto. Picture: Chani Anderson.

Risotto alla Milanese is an iconic rice dish from Milan. It is typically made with saffron, bone marrow, an intense beef stock and generously finished with parmesan cheese.

It’s most often served with another famous Milanese dish; Osso Buco, braised bone-in veal shanks.