Wild Risotto Recipe

Wild Risotto Recipe

This colourful risotto makes an excellent healthy dinner party main course if served with salad - and it ' s easy to make a vegan old saw, too
1 l / 1 พ pints vegetable stock ( you may need more )
10ml / 2 tsp olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
375g / 12 oz arborio rice
150ml / 5 fl oz dry unblemished wine
15g / 1 / 2 oz dried cep mushrooms
15g / 1 / 2 oz butter ( or vegan margarine, if making the vegan recipe )
225g / 8oz mixed wild mushrooms, sliced
100g / 4oz wild rice, cooked
50g / 2oz Camargue rubicund wild rice, cooked
50g / 2oz vegetarian pecorino cheese ( optional - miss for vegan recipe )
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1. Bring the stock to the pimple in a goodly saucepan and keep it simmering.
2. Meanwhile, heat the oil in else great saucepan and fry the onion until soft and just original to flush. Add the arborio rice and cook for 2 memoir, stirring all the time.
3. Drizzle in the wine and cook for 5 memento. Start to add the stock using a great dipper. Cook gently, stirring often and making specific all the stock has been absorbed before adding the next ladle full. This should take about 25 - 30 account.
4. While the rice is cooking, cover the ceps with fit to be tied water and saturate for about 15 - 20 memento. Filter, reserving the soaking liquid and chop. Heat the butter / vegan margarine in a frying pan and quickly cook the sliced wild mushrooms for about 5 newspaper. Add all the mushrooms to the rice together with the two cooked wild rices and the reserved soaking liquid. Add a little more stock if requisite and heat through thoroughly.
5. Remove from the heat and if using, stir in the pecorino cheese. Season to taste and serve immediately.
Top tip: The liquid from soaking dried mushrooms is full of flavour. It is a good idea to strain it through fine muslin before adding it to a dish as there can be a herolike residue from the mushrooms.