Help - trying to find a recipe!

[PercyMcPigface]

Many many years ago (prob late 90s) I used to make a lovely risotto with butternut squash and roasted hazelnuts. I could've sworn it was a Nigel Slater recipe, but have been through my old cookbooks and it's not there.

I know there are various recipes online for similar but this was such a nice version - rather than roasting the squash you cut it up into tiny cubes, and I think the hazelnuts were sprinkled on at the end. I can probably just make something up, but wondered if it rang bells with anyone on here who might have the recipe I'm thinking of?

Jamie Oliver did this one in 2002 - but with chestnuts not hazelnuts: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/rice-recipes/roast-squash-sage-chestnut-and-pancetta-risotto/

Or the River Cafe? https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/risotto/pumpkin-risotto

Could it be another 1990s TV chef? Rick Stein, Paul Ainsworth?

Thank you! I appreciate the reply. I was sure it was Nigel, but you could be right. I am going through all my old books now... possibly Hugh Fearnley what's it is another option!!

Possibly?

https://www.nourishbyjaneclarke.com/blogs/recipes/butternut-squash-chestnut-parmesan-risotto

I was intrigued by this (sounds like the sort of recipe I’d enjoy) so searched all the recipes in the eatyourbooks database for risotto rice, pumpkin or squash and hazelnuts. To be honest I found very few recipes with those ingredients and only a couple that matched your description.

There is this recipe from delicious magazine but from the early 2000s rather than the 1990s.

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/squash-risotto/

And a Diana Henry one from a cook book called The Gastropub Cookbook, which looks like the right era.

Just actually read that delicious magazine recipe and you roast the squash so that’s not it ☹️

Thanks everyone. In the end I made this one, and added some chopped toasted hazelnuts on the top. Really nice!

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/pumpkinrisottowithcr_13723/amp