This is the first recipe published by Good habits & Quality foods, it’s a typical winter dish: Risotto with Castelmagno DOP cheese and pumpkin.

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A typical italian traditional recipe, it’s not a difficult dish to cook: if you’ve already got the vegetables broth, you need just the right ingredients and about 45 minutes are enough to prepare it.

Discover how you can cook it!

First of all prepare a vegetable broth: clean, wash and cut into pieces some fresh vegetables (potato, carrot and celery), put them in a pot full of water, bring to the boiling heat and cook they for about 2 hours. Strain the broth and keep it warm.

Peel the pumpkin keeping the pulp. Wash and cut it, making small cubes. Clean and cut the onion into thin slices.

Pour in a pan 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and half onion. Then let fry for a few minutes until the onion becomes blonde.

Then add the pumpkin cubes, mix all well with a spoon, cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 20 minutes over medium heat. Now, you get a pumpkin pureé. Add salt to taste, and keep it warm. Meanwhile, clean the parsley and mince finely.

In another large pan pour 3-4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, let brown the parsley and the rest of the onion.

After a few minutes add the rice and the butter: cook the rice over high heat for a minute, stirring constantly with a spoon.

Pour the cup of white dry wine, stirring constantly, let it evaporate. Add 2 ladles of hot vegetable broth, reduce the heat and simmer, stirring constantly for a minute.

Put the hot pumpkin into the rice, turn with the spoon and continue cooking over low heat adding from time to time, without exceeding, a ladle of warm vegetable broth.

After about 15 minutes, taste the rice to assess the consistency, add the salt. The cooking time depends on the type of rice and the consistency of the grain that you like to feel under your teeth.

The cooking time changes according to the chosen type of rice and its quality too (read the label for the cooking time). Good quality rices cook in 15/20 minutes.

Remove the pan from heat, add the Castelmagno DOP cheese grated, mix the rice with a spoon for a minute, add some drops of olive oil and a pinch of pepper.

We suggest you to wait a couple of minutes and now you can serve out this special risotto.

Enjoy your meal!

Scroll down to discover ingredients and portions!

Ingredients for 4 people

1 ½ cups of Carnaroli or Vialone Nano rice to get a creamier rice – 350/400 gr.

2 ½ cups of pumpkin pulp minced or cut in small cubes – 600 gr.

5/8 tablespoons of grated Castelmagno Dop (very refined Italian cheese) – 100/120 gr.

4/5 cups vegetable of warm broth (to be added during cooking) – 1 l.

1 cup of dry white wine – a normal glass

7/8 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

3 knobs of butter – 40/50 gr

1 bunch of chopped parsley

1 onion

salt

pepper

Zutaten für 4 Personen

Carnaroli oder Vialone Nano Reis einen cremigen Reis zu bekommen – 350/400 gr.

Kürbisfruchtfleisch in kleine Würfel gehackt oder geschnitten – 600 gr.

5/8 Esslöffel geriebenen Dop Castelmagno (sehr raffinierter italienischer Käse) – 100/120 gr.

W armen Gemüsebrühe (zugegeben während des Kochen) – 1 l.

(zugegeben während des Kochen) – 1 l. 1 Tasse trockenen Weißwein – ein normales Glas

– ein normales Glas 7/8 Esslöffel Olivenöl extra vergine

3 Butterflöckchen – 40/50 gr

– gr 1 Bund gehackter Petersilie

1 Zwiebel

Salz

Pfeffer

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You can find some ingredients by visiting:

www.italianfoodjoy.com for UK and other European Countries

www.italianfoodjoy.de for Deutschland und Österreich

Anna Mila

Good habits & Quality foods

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