Risotto recipes

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I love risotto but sometimes find it can be a bit bland. What would give it a good flavour boost? TIA

Really good stock!

Mushroom stock cubes for mushroom based ones or with bacon too, can you smoked bacon.

Smoked haddock and roasted tomatoes

A can of soup as your stock base

Smoked streaky bacon cut very fine

Fresh chilli. I do one with bacon, butternut squash and chilli.

I soak some dried porcini mushrooms in hot but not boiling water for a couple of hours and use the liquid as stock, add white wine and a splash of white wine vinegar.

That was our dinner tonight 😁

Strong white pepper, decent stock, frsh garlic, good flavorful lean protein like duck, prawns or gammon. I find spring onions give it a nice kick, and as a previous poster mentioned, good mushrooms. Lots of onion to start and parmagiana reggiano to sprinkle at the end.

Even a bit of onion flakes/onion salt of you like stronger.

My favourite is leftover beef stew and red wine with plenty of parmesan.

Really good stock. My fave is 2-3 punnets baby plum tomatoes roasted & I do it in the instantpot, (in 10 minutes), it's lush.

Or bacon & pea. Mean meaning to try chorizo & chilli

Agree a can of soup. If it's good enough for Delia!
Asparagus risotto using cream of asparagus and a can of seafood gumbo for any fish or seafood risotto.

Tons of garlic, splash white wine 🍷, whatever is in it a good squeeze of lemon 🍋 at the end and plenty of parmesan

Make sure you are seasoning really well; rice is bland and needs a lot of seasoning to bring out its flavour.

Leek and Blue cheese risotto

Way way more black pepper than you think.
Add lemon when serving.

This is lovely -

www.slurrp.com/amp/recipes/herby-lemon-risotto-with-halloumi-1648541234

More cheese! The risottos that go down well with my family all have a shedload of cheese in - eg leek and goats cheese. Toasted pine nuts are good too. Or bacon bits.

Using leftover stew is a really good idea - do you just stir it in at the end?

Marmite 2 teaspoons per litre of stock

I can feel one million Italians gasping in shock!

Very good stock, simmered before to concentrate, good cheese and butter at the end.

Keep your Marmite and stock cubes to yourselves, heathens.

Roasted veg

Nigella has a recipe for an absolutely gorgeous pea risotto.

Love risotto! I add red onion, loads of black pepper, bacon/pancetta, grated parmesan. Anything and everything really. I stopped adding wine since my 18 month old now eats it with me!

I fry up onions and a lot of garlic in butter for a minute, add the risotto rice and get all the rice coated. Then add chicken and stock and keep and eye on it, stirring here and there. Keep adding more stock as it absorbs. I listen to a podcast or watch something in the kitchen so that I'm around to keep stirring it regularly.

I don't use wine, just stock.

At the very end I'll throw in some spinach or kale. I serve it up with a lot of black pepper and absolutely drown it in lemon.

Another flavourful risotto is to do the same but instead of chicken I cook smoked haddock in butter in the oven wrapped up in tin foil. When the risotto is done, flake the haddock and mix it in, adding in the lovely smokey butter. Serve it with something green: asparagus or broccoli etc.

Thank you these are all brilliant suggestions.

Use a bone broth as a stock, I love this chicken broth. But the Beef is great too.