Risotto is an Italian dish. Made from aborio rice. aborio rice has more starch in it, so the rice is creamy in the end. You don't cook it like normal rice, but you first pan fry it in olive oil, then slowly add 1/2 cup of liquid, and stir it until the rice absorbs it, then add another 1/2 liquid and stir/cook till absorbed. You keep doing that until the rice is the right tenderness. Traditionally, most risotto's have cheese added at the end. You just add you flavours at the end!
Here is a great site about it:
http://www.arborfood.com/dining-in/g.../risotto.shtml