Pumpkin Risotto??

[Kathy]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure I have read a pumpkin risotto recipe somewhere. Can anyone point me in the direction please?

OR As it is my first week with Themralena, I am unsure of how to omit the mushrooms and add pumpkin instead, what would be the right measurements?

 Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[Thermomixer]

brazen - Karen has done one - http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/2008/11/pumpkin-chive-risotto-thermomix.html and at the UK TMX site here: http://www.ukthermomix.com/recshow.php?rec_id=40

Good luck

[Paul]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure I have read a pumpkin risotto recipe somewhere. Can anyone point me in the direction please?

OR As it is my first week with Themralena, I am unsure of how to omit the mushrooms and add pumpkin instead, what would be the right measurements?

 Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

I have a nice Bill Marchetti recipe, but I haven't tried it with the TMX.  Would you like it anyway?

[Kathy]

thanks Paul, that would be great. In the end I decided to give it a go, and it turned out very nice!!!

[Paul]

OK here goes, and this is from Bill Marchetti's "Marchetti's Latin" book

800g pumpkin
1.5 litres light broth, either vege or veal.  Not chicken, it's too distracting
50ml olive oil
50 butter
1 cup diced onion
500g Arborio rice - if you can get Vialone Nano it's the best
100ml white wine
More butter
Parmigiano Reggiano

Cut 200g of the pumpkin into 2 cm slivers, blanch in boiling water until tender and reserve for garnish.
Boil the remaining pumpkin in the stock until very tender, drain and reserve.  Mash the pumpkin
Saute the onion in the oil and butter until translucent, add the rice and cook lightly
Add wine and stir until absorbed
Do the usual with the stock, ladle by ladle
Add the mashed pumpkin, more butter and parmesan
Add the pumpkin slivers, stir and serve

I think this could easily be adapted for the TMX

[Kathy]

mmm... that sounds good, thanks for posting I will give that a try.

[Woerd]

I made the risotto from the brazen20blogspot link last night for company.  Everyone loved it.  I used butternut squash instead of pumpkin and i was a little worried about the squash not getting cooked enought in the 20 minutes so I sauteed it first for a few minutes and then set it aside until needed.  I also added a smidge of truffle oil which was nice.  I will definately make it again.

[Thermomixer]

Good to hear - thanks

[brazen20au]

butternut squash is called pumpkin over here 

i don't use that recipe anymore, i use one based on baf65's recipe! (lots more liquid and less 'stodgy')

we are having a bacon, pumpkin and herb risotto tonight

[~ - Jules - ~]

butternut squash is called pumpkin over here 

i don't use that recipe anymore, i use one based on baf65's recipe! (lots more liquid and less 'stodgy')

we are having a bacon, pumpkin and herb risotto tonight

Do you have the recipe (or point me in the right direction) of the baf65s recipe?

[faffa_70]

Jules, I am sure it is under mushroom risotto somewhere. From memory, we were talking about demo recipes at the time. Hope this may help you

[judydawn]

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1392.0
This is where you will find Baf's mushroom risotto recipe, read through all the postings and you will see how you can change it to pumpkin and spinach.  I think this is the basic risotto recipe Brazen refers to.

You might even like to try Faffa's pumpkin & feta recipe here
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2849.0

[twistiebrinkley]

Hi everyone,

I'm having terrible trouble with my pumpkin risotto.  I've just thrown out 1 batch and the 2nd is cooking now.  With the first batch, the sweet potato (small, small cubes) just wouldn't cook and I added more wine and stock and increased the cooking time (by almost double in the end) and I cooked it with the MC off...it ended up like glue and had a terribly bitter taste to it.

This batch is doing it's own thing.  I have just cooked it for the required 17 mins but this time with the MC on and it was like soup.  What am I doing wrong?  I can't tell you if the pumpkin is cooked or not as it's still going, but it will have cooked for 30 mins again this time.

Any tips would be great.  Thanks

[cookie1]

I actually roast my pumpkin first. Or boil it.