What do you serve with risotto? And...

[BroccoliSpears]

Question 1: What would you serve with a summery (prob pea and mint, maybe asparagus) risotto for lunch?

Question 2: What would you serve with a 'two bean, strawberry and feta salad with mint and pistachio'?

1. Bread and a tomato salad

1. out of my league there - is that a pudding or a starter? what are the two beans? If it's a starter, do you need anything else?

1. Oooh, tomato salad. Good call. And home made bread.

1. It's a poncy salad for a light lunch. The two beans are green beans and broad beans. I have been looking for an excuse to make it and my poncy in-laws will think it's fab .

mmm, methinks some kind of starch is called for!

more bread???

potato salad (not with mint, obviously)?

or spanish omelette?

or just some nice cold meats?

Some kind of fancy garlic bread with both or if you're that keen to impress, a homemade bread of some sort!

Yes, hadn't thought of that - garlic would work well. But then I'll stink all afternoon and I'm going out.

Right. The risotto is sorted.

How about Poncy Salad with bread and an olive and pepper frittata? Can I have strawberries and cold egg on one plate?!

don't think there's a law against it, broccoli!

but the olive flavour might be a bit too strong for your delicate and poncey strawberry/feta combo..

Personally I wouldn't serve anything with risotto, other than maybe some rocket, as risotto is a complete meal in itself. Not that it'd be wrong to serve anything else, of course, just that I don't think it needs anything else, so why bother

for the salad - walnut bread?

1. green salad

1. grilled meat (marinated lamb - olive oil, mustard, garlic, rosemary) or grilled haloumi

1 - Salad
2 - A green salad & bread

Long / rustic shavings of Parmesan on top of the risotto, nothinh else needed.

1. Rocket salad with fab, vintage balsamic vinegar. Deffo not bread as risotto is very filling.

2. Is this the starter to go before the risotto? If yes, probably some flat breads or pitta but not loads as they'd get carb overload (says the woman who loves carbs!).

What's for pud?

poncy salad as a starter then risotto.
chilled Gavi Di Gavi

Would replace the strawberry with watermelon in the salad.
Definitely shaved parmesan on risotto

Not appearing in the same meal or for the same people.

Risotto for friends on Friday. Shaved parmesan, check. Lose the bread, check. Rocket salad, check. Thought I'd do fig and ginger cupcakes for pud / tea.

Poncy salad for inlaws lunch on Sunday. Will make bread I think and like the idea of grilled meat. Or cold meat. Am vegi so don't really know which meat would go. Don't know about pud. This is supposed to be a very light meal prior to their long car journey. Tarte? Dunno.

oh!

for sunday, you could do grilled fish.
cut nice piece firm fish in cubes, marinate in lemon juice/saffron/olive oil/salt/pepper. Put on skewers and grill in oven.
serve with a little salsa verde (relish) that is any chopped herbs/chopped onion/chopped cornichons/oil.