Do you enjoy Italian cuisine? Looking for a new and different recipe to try? If so, I think you’re going to find the Garden Vegetable Risotto Recipe pretty unique and interesting. Today’s guest post recipe is courtesy of Tuscan Women Cook and will make approximately 6-8 servings. You can visit their website to learn more about them.
Garden Vegetable Risotto Recipe
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 medium onion finely chopped
1 cup Carnaroli or Arborio rice
1 small courgette (zucchini)
10 Valerian leaves (optional)
10 green asparagus tips
10 basil leaves finely chopped
4 tender spinach leaves
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated
White pepper
Vegetable stock:
2 small courgettes, quartered
2 Swiss chard leaves
Asparagus spears, without tips, peeled
Salt
Vegetable stock:
Place the courgettes, Swiss chard leaves and asparagus spears in a saucepan with 4 pints of salted water and cook for 20 minutes over medium heat. This vegetable stock is the cooking liquid for making the risotto and should be prepared first. Keep it simmering constantly.
In a saucepan, melt the butter and sauté the onion for 3 minutes. Add all the vegetables and sweat them over low heat. After 10 minutes, add the rice and stir until it becomes translucent.
Add the vegetable stock a little at a time, stirring continuously. After about 18 minutes, add the chopped herbs.
When the rice reaches al dente stage, take it off the heat, taste and correct for salt. Mix in the grated Parmesan cheese. Garnish with a few courgettes slices and serve at once.
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I enjoy rice dishes, including risotto. I have never tried Valerian leaves. I have used Arborio , but not Carnoroli rice.
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(Garden Vegetable Risotto Recipe) This looks so good to me, my brother and I make a mushroom risotto all the time when we get together.
Very unusual ingredients. Some I have never heard of before. I would probably like this but end up a messmaking it. It looks like a good side dish.
Interesting ingredients in this. I’d be glad to eat it, but probably won’t be making it.
Wow, this sounds delicious! We enjoy rice dishes and especially risotto. However, sometime it becomes so involved just making risotto and end up with creamy rice. I really enjoy that this dish has so many healthy vegetables in it.
Good recipe with so many fresh vegetables. We are trying to incorporate more vegetables into our diet and this would be a tasty way to do that.
I’d definitely like this. It sounds really tasty.
Risotto is one of m favorite dishes! This looks amazingly good 🙂
This sounds good but so many of the ingredients are foreign to me. I am not sure I would be doing it correctly. Thank you for sharing.