Pumpkin risotto

We love pumpkins! Pumpkin is very popular at this time of year and Katrin (Katrinshine) would like to share with us the pumpkin risotto recipe today. It is a simple but tasty and you will cook it in about 40 minutes. Perfect dish for the autumn supper!

 You will need:
200 gr rice
300 gr pumpkin
50 gr butter
50 gr parmigiano, grated
1 medium size onion, chopped
500 gr hot water or vegetable broth
100 ml white wine
Salt & pepper to taste

Remove the peel and the seeds of pumpkin. Cut it into pieces and boil. Remove the pumpkin from the water and whip it up with the blender. Reserve the liquid, this is your vegetable stock.

Saute the onion until golden in color in about half of amount of butter. Add rice and stir. Cook for about 5 more minutes and add some wine to the mix. Stir onion, rice and wine together.

Add some reserved vegetable stock or hot water to the pan, stir. Add pureed pumpkin and the rest of liquid. Stir and cook all together until rice will become tender.

Add the other half of butter and the parmigiano. Stir and leave for a couple of minutes under the lid.

It's ready to serve!

If you like add some chopped parsley when serving.

Enjoy!

Recipe by Katrin Katrinshine
Translated by Natalia Grimme