Vegetable Risotto Recipe with Ideas for the Season
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Here I show you my vegetable risotto recipe.
You can prepare the risotto with vegetables all year round in different variations.
Today I have refined the risotto with bear’s garlic.
Wild garlic is available from the middle of March until the beginning of May.
Harvest the bear’s garlic before the blossom, bear’s garlic smells softly of garlic.
If you want to be sure, buy the wild herb at the market or supermarket.
Vegetable risotto is generally vegetarian and if you need a vegan variety, you can replace the pecorino or parmesan with freshly roasted and finely grated almonds.
This tastes great and makes everyone happy.
Discover here all tips for your perfect vegetable risotto.
Let yourself be inspired to cook for yourself, cook a great dish for your loved ones.
Good luck!
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1. Recipe Vegetable Risotto
Below you will find the recipe for vegetable risotto.
With the tips in the article you can adapt the recipe flexibly according to the season and your own taste.
I wish you every success!
Vegetable Risotto
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide for preparing risotto with vegetables.
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Ingredients
Risotto Ingredients | ||
120 | g | risotto rice |
1-2 | pc | shalotts |
300-400 | ml | Vegetable broth |
40-60 | ml | Olive oil |
20-40 | g | butter (omit for vegan version!) |
80 | ml | dry white wine (optional!) |
4 | pinches | nutmeg |
6 | pinches | Salt |
4 | pinches | black pepper |
2 | pinches | Cayenne pepper |
Wild Garlic approach | ||
250 | ml | Vegetable broth |
150 | ml | Cream (or soy cream) |
1 | bunch | Bärlauch |
Vegetables and decoration | ||
1 | pc | Zucchini |
250 | g | Mushrooms |
10 | pc | almonds (freshly roasted, finely grated as vegan cheese substitute) |
15 | ml | Olive oil |
40 | g | parmesan (or Pecorino cheese) |
some | majoram (Fresh for decoration) |
Instruction
![dice shallots](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/shallots-diced-1200x800.jpg)
Prepare shallots
Halve, peel and finely dice the shallots.
![Risotto Rice with Shallots](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Risotto-rice-shallot-cube-pan.jpg)
Sauté rice
Sweat the raw risotto rice and diced shallots in a pot with a little butter and olive oil.
![Risotto in a pot.](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/risotto-rice-pot-1.jpg)
Prepare risotto
Add the white wine, bring to the boil with the vegetable stock and simmer until light.
Stir the risotto constantly.
![wild garlic](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/wild-garlic-graphic.jpg)
Optional wild garlic
If you want to prepare the bear’s garlic variant, bring the vegetable stock to the boil, add cream or soy cream, add bear’s garlic cut into small pieces, bring to the boil for 2 minutes.
Then mix and pass through a fine sieve after 5 minutes.
Use the bear’s garlic sauce to prepare risotto instead of broth.
![Vegetables for vegetable risotto frying in a pan.](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/vegetable-for-vegetable-risotto.jpg)
Prepare vegetables
Chop the zucchini and mushrooms and fry them in a pan with olive oil.
Let the vegetables colour and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Leave the vegetables next to the stove.
For the variants:
Fry the fennel directly, peel the asparagus and cut into pieces, cook briefly – then fry, peeled pumpkin, cut into pieces, cook until al dente and then fry.
![Caramelise the tomatoes.](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/tomato-caramelizing-pan-1.jpg)
Prepare tomatoes
If you want to add cocktail tomatoes that marinate for example in a pan with olive oil, salt, pepper and sugar and caramelize with the cream Brulee burner.
You can also caramelize the tomatoes briefly in the pan if you don’t have a Creme Brulee burner at home.
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Arrange risotto
Finely grate the Pecorino or Parmesan cheese.
Refine the risotto with a little cheese, butter and olive oil until creamy.
For the vegan version of the vegetable risotto only use olive oil and grate the almonds fresh and fine.
Arrange the vegetable risotto on a warm plate in the middle, add the vegetables, decorate and serve quickly.
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3. Vegetable Risotto Shopping List for the Supermarket
For your vegetable risotto you need the following ingredients:
Risotto base:
- 1-2 shallots or young onions
- risotto rice
- optional dry white wine or Prosecco
- vegetable broth
- butter, olive oil
- salt, pepper, sugar, nutmeg
- Pecorino or Parmesan cheese
Risotto with wild garlic:
- wild garlic fresh
- cream or soy cream
- vegetable broth
Vegetable variants:
- mushrooms, chanterelles, porcini mushrooms
- courgette
- fennel (optional)
- white asparagus (optional)
- asparagus green (optional)
- cocktail tomatoes (optional)
- pumpkin (optional)
I’ve combined mushrooms and courgettes in this recipe.
Asparagus fits as well, I wouldn’t add fennel.
Cocktail tomatoes can always be added, that brings more colour to the plate and a pleasant acidity.
The pumpkin is ideal in autumn in combination with mushrooms and courgettes.
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