Italian Food Recipes

Here another good Italian recipes made with pumpkin: risotto with pumpkin. This dish is another traditional recipe of Lombardia easy and fast to prepare, you need only rice and a good pumpkin: the better type to use is the type of Mantua with pulp and rind orange and a sweet taste. In this recipe it isn’t necessary to cook pumpkin separately because its pulp is so tender that the cooking time of risotto is enough. If you like a mellow flavor you can prepare this risotto simply with pumpkin but if you like a spicy taste you can season the dish with the addition of rosemary and some Parmesan sprinkled on.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
320 g of Rice
500 g of Pumpkin
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
20 g of Butter
1 / 4 of Onion chopped
1 / 2 Glass of White wine
FOR BROTH:
500 ml of water
1 / 2 of Onion cut in big pieces
1 Carrot cut in big pieces
1 Celery cut in big pieces
1 Potato cut in big pieces
Salt

PREPARATION TIME: 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 30 minutes

WINE: Colli Morenici Mantovani del Garda bianco Doc (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Start with preparing the broth: place in pan the water, the big pieces of onion, celery, carrot, potato and salt and let the water boil.

When the water boil begin to prepare the risotto. Clean, peel and cut the pumpkin in small cubes.

Place in a pan the extra virgin olive oil, the butter and the chopped onion and let it golden

then add the pieces of pumpkin and cook for about 5 – 8 minutes.

Now add the rice and make it roast for some minute, add the wine and let it evaporate.

Start to add 1 ladle of hot broth stirring until it is absorbed; continue in this way, adding ladles of hot broth, for about 15 - 18 minutes.

At the end of the cooking the rice must be slightly firm to the teeth. Serve hot and if you like you can sprinkle the risotto with some Parmesan.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!