Favourite risotto

[Sosigsandwich]

I'm a pretty good cook and make most of our meals from scratch but I've just learned how to make risotto and we're loving it. The one I make has bacon lardons, leeks, mushroom and butternut squash in with parmesan. I have the ingredients for crab and saffron coming this week.

I'd love more suggestions of flavour combinations please. We eat anything (except offal!)

Jamie Oliver had a brilliant springtime risotto over lockdown. It's become one of our staples.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/rice-recipes/freezer-raid-springtime-risotto/

Asparagus and chorizo through it instead of bacon (totally unauthentic but delicious!)

@mumsiedarlingrevolta

oh and always eat on bed of rocket

Excellent idea!

We love a Delia Smith one - oven baked carbonara risotto. You mix raw egg and creme fraiche in at the end. And more parmesan!
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/ovenbakedrisottocarb_68036

Seafood with white wine. Crab, lobster, prawns, lemon. Yum.

My usual is chicken and roasted veg (pepper, red onion, baby plum toms and courgette) but I love leek/chestnut mushroom and butternut squash/sage. Kids don’t really like those though so don’t make them often.

On Boxing Day I do a big turkey and veg one.

Always use lots of wine and Parmesan.

In fact I need to do one tomorrow now!

Chicken, courgette and red pepper with loads of parmesan.

I love risotto but have to make quite a plain one that suits the whole family so I’m jealous of the ones listed here ! I just do an onion / celery / pea base with smoked haddock and salmon

feta cheese, mint and peas

Mushroom and peas.

Bacon and broad beans with chicken stock, unbelievably good if you like savory flavours

Beetroot and horseradish or Gorgonzola and leek

@MsRinky That sounds amazing ❤️

Cant believe no one has mentioned black pudding! My absolute favourite. That and chorizo.

@YerAWizardHarry That sounds like my husband's dream risotto. Do you add anything else in?

Love a risotto. Our favourites are;

Jamie Oliver's King prawn and pea (with mint, basil, lemon and parmasan)

beetroot and goat cheese

@Sosigsandwich we just do the chorizo and black pudding with vegetable stock. I sometimes add mushrooms but I'm obsessed, DP doesn't like them. Just make sure its good quality black pudding as the cheap stuff turns it greasy and horrible

I do a nice one with 'nduja and pan-fried big prawns on top.

Red pepper and salmon.

I like bacon & cherry tomatoes
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oven-baked-risotto/amp

(And am shamelessly place-marking to come back to these)
Esp like the idea of the side with seabass.

Butternut squash and sage. Just amazing. Need a really good strong chicken stock and lots of wine.

@poshme

I like bacon & cherry tomatoes www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oven-baked-risotto/amp

(And am shamelessly place-marking to come back to these)
Esp like the idea of the side with seabass.

Vine tomatoes on top of a saffron risotto is also lush!

Prawn, not necessarily very big expensive ones. Water from cooking or just defrosting them saved and simmered with a stock cube (fish or chicken), 2 bay leaves and 2 cloves of garlic.

Finely chopped onion fried gently first in oil and butter, add rice till crackling, add a small glass of white wine, proceed as usual with the simmering water, add a good squirt of tomato purée, and the prawns shortly before the end, just to heat through.

I’m actually making this tonight.🙂

Also really like asparagus risotto when it’s in season, using the water from simmering the asparagus for a few minutes.

Grated cheese optional for both.

Asparagus. I love it!

The risotto after Christmas made with stock from the roast. Always the best risotto of the year.

This year it was goose stock (thank-you DM) + mushrooms and chestnuts.