Today while relaxing watching 30Minute Jamie Oliver I watched Jamie whip up a Mushroom Risotto in 30 minutes. I sat and thought "I can do that", problem was I had no ingredients!! So I thought to myself .....I've been cooking for a while, why not create my own risotto with what I have in my fridge and cupboard.
The challenge was on. Yes I was bored!!
So what I created was
Risotto with Red Wine and Italian Sausage
Ingredients
5 Roma Tomatoes
1 Red Onion
1 large clove of garlic
1 Stick of Celery
2 heaped ts of tomato paste
2TS Parsley
1 cup of Red wine
500 mls chicken stock
500mls water
1 punnet cherry tomatoes
5 small sticks Italian sausage
2 TS double cream
Parmesan cheese (to taste)
salt and pepper to taste
300 Arborio Rice
I bar mixed Roma tomatoes, garlic, onion, celery and tomato paste together and cooked on a high heat for around five minutes.
Add rice and stir then add your glass of red wine...maybe pour yourself one to help make cooking more fun!
Stir whilst on medium/high heat until rice starts to swell.
Add half the stock and stir....this is where my idea of cooking risotto was made easy. I thought you needed to stand over the pot the whole time. Here you turn down the dish to medium and let simmer for two minute blocks and slowly add stock until all absorbed.
While you leave the risotto you chop cherry tomatoes and Italian sausage and sweat in small pot
Then add to dish
Continue to add water as needed until rice is cooked through.
Add chopped parsley, parmesen, salt and pepper to taste
Take dish off heat and fold through cream
Allow to rest and dish after five minutes.
This is a yummy winter dish and now that I realise how easy it is to cook Risotto I will be making many different versions over the winter
