Recipes For Mushrooms Risotto

For a delicious, elegant main dish, make this mushroom risotto recipe! It's rich and creamy, made with white wine, fresh herbs, and Parmesan cheese.

My ideal Valentine’s Day would involve staying in and making this mushroom risotto recipe. My husband Jack LOVES mushrooms, and I love making risotto for date nights. They’re those rare occasions when you actually

To stand at the stove, stirring and stirring and stirring, because you’re also spending time with someone you love. The fact that all that stirring results in a comforting, flavorful meal is just the cherry on top.

Morel Risotto Recipe

Realistically, we probably won’t make this mushroom risotto for Valentine’s Day this year (thinking it would be hard to pull off with a toddler running around!). But if you’re having a date night in, I hope you will make it. White wine, Parmesan cheese, and fresh thyme fill the rice with rich flavor, and its creamy texture contrasts beautifully with the crispy, meaty mushrooms. Top it off with fresh parsley and extra cheese for an elegant main dish.

You could make this mushroom risotto recipe with just cremini mushrooms, and it would come out delicious. But if you want to take it to the next level, experiment with a mix of varieties. I have these types in the photo above:

Any of these varieties would be fantastic, as would portobello mushrooms or maitakes. You’ll need 1 1/2 pounds total. Use a combination of whatever types you can get your hands on/whatever fits in your budget. Creminis, shiitakes, and portobellos are more affordable, while oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, and maitakes are pricier. I often use a mix of mushrooms at different price points to balance cost and flavor.

Perfect Wild Mushroom Risotto

Simple and elegant, this mushroom risotto makes a fantastic dinner on its own. But if you’re craving a larger meal, you have plenty of great side dish options. It goes nicely with a quick veggie side dish like sautéed spinach, green beans, or roasted broccoli. It would also pair well with any of these salad recipes:

This mushroom risotto recipe is a delicious, elegant vegetarian main dish! It's rich and creamy, made with white wine, fresh herbs, and Parmesan cheese*.

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.This rich and creamy mushroom risotto recipe is made with risotto rice, Parmesan cheese, brandy, and mushrooms. It’s the ultimate comfort food meal, and our easy risotto recipe makes it simple to prepare!

Mushroom Risotto With Black Pepper And Sage

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Risotto is one of those dishes that we love to eat, but neither my father nor mother have the patience to make often.

It takes about 25 minutes of careful stirring, and every few minutes adding a half cup of hot stock to the rice, as the rice slowly absorbs the liquid it's in.

Morel Mushroom And Prawn Risotto Recipe

Arborio (or any other kind of risotto rice) is cooked slowly with stock and when done, you stir in some freshly grated Parmesan cheese. (Hungry yet?)

I actually don't mind watching over risotto. It's easy enough to do, and you can prepare other things while keeping the corner of your eye on the risotto. The result is so worth the effort!

You will need at least 5 cups of stock to make this much risotto, but the exact amount will vary depending on how hot your stove is, how much you stir the rice, and how wide your pot is. Your best bet is to heat up a full 7 cups of stock, so you don't run out.

Vegan Mushroom Risotto

You can use any leftover stock to loosen up the risotto if you need to hold it on the stove before serving. Risotto is best served immediately.

If you don't want to use alcohol, you can add more stock and add a splash of your choice of vinegar or lemon juice to brighten the risotto.

The recipe calls for risotto rice, Italian rice varieties that are high in a particular type of starch, with grains that are shorter and fatter than most other rices: Arborio, Carnaroli and Vialone Nano are the most famous varieties. The high starch content of these rices yields a creamy texture when cooked.

Wild Mushroom Risotto Recipe

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2, 000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate. In cases where multiple ingredient alternatives are given, the first listed is calculated for nutrition. Garnishes and optional ingredients are not included.

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Mushroom And Leek Risotto (vegan + Gf)

It’s such a let down when you’re faced with a giant bowl of Mushroom Risotto, only to find you have to fish around desperately through piles of gluey rice to find a a few piddly bits of mushrooms.

This risotto recipe is intended to be one that makes the most of ordinary mushrooms, rather than hunting down exotic wild or Asian mushrooms, or using dried mushrooms which have a more intense mushroom flavour.

Other than the mushrooms, there’s nothing unusual or groundbreaking in this recipe. It’s more about cooking technique (trust me, risotto is simple!).

Ultra Creamy Mushroom Risotto

For the best flavour, cook the mushrooms until golden then stir some back in at the end and reserve the rest to pile on top. Maximum taste – and it looks better too!

There’s no need to stand over a hot stove stirring constantly for 30minutesfor creamy risotto.The liquid just needs to be added in 3 or 4 batches, and you only need to stir regularly towards the end.And I promise, your risotto isstill going to be beautifully creamy and evenly cooked.

The concept of having to slowly add stock into the rice ladle by ladle for creamy risotto is a traditional method that was called for in the times when risotto was made by Italians in tall, narrow risotto pots. Tall narrow pot = high rice and liquid depth = must stir regularly for even cooking.

The Best Instant Pot Mushroom Risotto

It’s been pretty well documented and tested by established food authorities such as Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious Eats that if you use a wider pot, there’s no need to be so diligent.

I usually serve it as a main course with a simple crispgreen salad like aRocket (Arugula) Salad with Balsamic Dressing and Shaved Parmesan. The peppery flavour of the Rocket lettuce is a classic pairing with rich, creamy dishes like this risotto.Bonus that it’s possibly thefastest side salad ever!!

Recipe video above. Creamy, comforting Mushroom Risotto fully loaded with garlicky, buttery mushrooms stirredthrough the risotto AND piled on top. Mouthwateringly delicious, cosy food that's elegant enough to serve at a dinner party. It takes time to make mushrooms golden brown, but it's worth every minute – it's amazing!!

Gourmet Mushroom Risotto Recipe

I like slicing most and quartering some for texture variety in the dish. If your mushrooms are giant, cut into 1/6th of 1/8th.

Best to cook mushrooms until golden than remove. If you cook them with the rice, the mushrooms lose their colour (and colour = flavour!)

More exotic mushrooms (like Chanterelle, Morel) or Asian mushrooms like Enoki, Oyster, King Oyster mushrooms etc – use your judgement to cut to size so they can sautéed until golden and used as directed by this recipe.

Wild Mushroom Risotto

2. White wineadds complexity and depth of flavour. Any white wine will do here, though a dry one is best. Sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, Riesling. Even leftover champers would be fine!

3. Adding hot stock/broth slowly – it’s been pretty well documented nowadays but food authorities such as Serious Eats that contrary to popular belief, you don’t actually need the pot to be hot when making risotto (nor do you need to add gradually!). It doesn’t make a difference to how evenly it cooks. But by force of habit, I still do it. Use any means that suits you – microwaving jug by jug, or have a saucepan on the adjacent stove.

4. Cream and extra butter for finishing – these are optional. The cream and butter adds extra richness for finishing (cream also makes risotto white). Still incredible without! I would choose cream over extra butter in this recipe.

Mushroom Risotto With Chicken

5. Pot – I use a 26 cm / 11″ Chasseur cast iron pot. If your pot is