What do you serve with risotto?

[LucyTheValiant]

Just that really. I'm getting bored of salad.

DP wants garlic bread, but I think that's wrong.

What do you have with yours?

I always have rocket. Quite salady I guess.

Oooh, rocket. That's nice. Our salad has been made of spinach lately. Rocket is tastier.

Just on its own.

I second rocket, garlic bread is too carby - what about some asparagus on the side?

Nothing at all. You have things in risotto, not with it.

To be specific. Rocket with lemon juice and a bit if Parmesan cheese. Yumbo

If its just us nothing, if we have guests just something like green beans

Def no to garlic bread though LTB

I don't normally serve anything with risotto but rocket salad would probably be good.

Garlic bread is definitaty wrong - why on earth would your DH eat carbs as a side dish to carbs?

Roasted butternut squash, rocket, and sometimes I grill chicken on the side if it's not got meat/prawns in it

We have either just risotto or a rocket salad, or a spinach salad if the risotto hasn't got spinach in (it usually has) or roasted baby tomatoes (but I don't like those).

I'm liking the sound of the rocket. Green beans sounds good too! I think the garlic bread is his misguided attempt to clear the freezer before we move house. I will stand strong in the knowledge that Mumsnet agrees with me.

Soft-boiled eggs and samphire.

Nothing. That's why it's the most boring meal in the world ever.

The point is everything is in it. So the first fork tastes like the last. Dullest. Meal. Ever.

Nice with griddled courgettes

Or roasted butternut squash

Or 1lb of grated Parmesan...

DH (who considers himself an expert on Italian gastronomic culture on account of having once had an Italian girlfriend) considers all side servings a satanic aberration.

I, on the other hand, favour roasted vine tomatoes. I like the way the acid cuts through the creaminess.

Isn't it a meal in its own right ? Maybe with some parmesan or a few rocket or basil leaves on top.

Nothing, or perhaps some rocket as I love it.

No way to garlic bread - far too carby.