Pumpkin and spinach risotto

[earth mumma]

Name of Recipe:Pumpkin and spinach risotto
Number of People:5-6

Ingredients:

150g Parmesan cheese (block)
50g olive oil
1 medium onion, peeled & quartered
1 clove garlic
1tsp ground coriander
1½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground cardamom
390g Arborio rice
100g white wine
1100g water
2 tbls veggie stock concentrate
400g pumpkin, peeled and diced into 1cm cubes
100gm baby spinach leaves


Method:

Pulverise Parmesan for 10 seconds on speed 9 set aside
Place onion and garlic in bowl and chop on speed 5 for 3-4 seconds
Add oil and spices and sauté for 2 minutes at 100'c speed 1
Add rice and wine and sauté for 2 minutes at 100'c  speed 1-2
Add stock concentrate, water and pumpkin cook for 16 minutes at 100'c  speed 1-2


Put baby spinach into thermoserver. Pour cooked risotto on the top of spinach (leave to sit for 5 Min's). Stir through ¾ of the Parmesan (save the rest for people to add more if they want) and serve immediately - lovely with a green salad.Modified by Jane Cisera from a recipe Posted by Karen on http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/



Tips/Hints: This is a very soupy risotto but if left for five Min's in the thermoserver it does absorb most of the liquid.

[Thermomixer]

Nice work earth mumma - I like my risotto watery anyway   

[brazen20au]

yes, i based it on the original EDC recipe, but i don't use it anymore iether! lol i use baf's version now which is also more liquidy

[Ceejay]

Yay!

One of our favourite versions! 

[earth mumma]

Sorry  but what is baf's version?  Love to try it out.  Thanks 

[Thermomixer]

Check this out http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1392.msg10458#msg10458

[brazen20au]

these days i use around 350g rice, 1000g water and as much pumpkin as i can fit (i've never weighed it) and the rest of the recipe is like yours / baf's. (except the spices)

[earth mumma]

  :DThank you.  That is the exact recipe I was shown how to make for my demo's.  The porchini, if you can get it, really makes a difference, as does the swiss brown mushies (stays a lovely brown colour - doesn't go greyish).  Many a time I have had people exclaim that it is the "best" risotto they've ever tasted, including passionate 'traditional' risotto makers  .  People just can't believe you can have perfect risotto without stirring it constantly.  I have made the pumpkin and spinach as a variation for people who don't like mushrooms and it has gone down very well too.  A great tradgedy of my life is that none of my kids (3 boys) like risotto - and they are not fussy kids, generally they eat anything.  :(Me, on the other hand, I love it. Funny though they prefer the pumpkin if they have to have it.

[flavourofthemonth]

Resurrecting this old thread coz I just made this risotto for a houseful of kids playing Monopoly and they licked the Thermoserver clean.  What's even better is that 3 of them said they don't like pumpkin. Ha ha 

Thanks for this nice and easy recipe. It's great!