Italian
Mushroom Risotto
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Mushroom Risotto is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Warm the vegetable broth in a saucepan and keep it at a bare simmer.
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Heat the olive oil in a wide pot and cook the sliced mushrooms until browned, about 8 minutes, then set half aside.
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Melt 1 tbsp butter with the onion and garlic and cook until soft, about 4 minutes.
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Add the rice and thyme and stir until the grains turn translucent at the edges.
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Add the warm broth a ladle at a time, stirring until absorbed, until the rice is creamy and tender, about 20 minutes.
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Stir in the remaining butter, parmesan, and the reserved mushrooms.
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Season with salt, top with parsley, and serve.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mushroom Risotto, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Mushroom Risotto carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 570 kcal
- Protein
- 14 g
- Carbs
- 61 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 15 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Mushroom Risotto takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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