For this week’s Tasty Tuesday I’m sharing a delicious risotto recipe from the fabulous Very Veggie Family Cookbook by Sara Ask and Lisa Bjärbo.
As a family, we follow a broadly vegetarian diet. My husband Peter doesn’t eat any meat at all and I’ve dabbled in veganism before for ‘Veganuary’.
Nowadays I do eat meat but I enjoy meatless Mondays and definitely pack more veg into my diet than ever.
Now over to Sara and Lisa for the recipe…
This is the dish that makes frightened children burst out with ‘you’re eating raw mince!’. In our opinion, it’s both beautiful and incredible tasty. Risotto is a vegetarian classic that can be varied in many ways. The base is made out of rice that’s cooked with stock, white wine and cheese until creamy. Then you can flavour the risotto with whatever you fancy: chanterelles, asparagus, roasted tomatoes or green beans. No matter what you choose it’s a good idea to garnish the whole thing with toasted almonds and croûtons for added crunch.
Beetroot Risotto With Toasted Almonds and Goat’s Cheese Cream
Ingredients (Serves 4)
- 2 tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
- 3–4 shallots, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 4 beetroots (about 300g/10½oz), coarsely grated
- 260g/9¼oz/scant 1¼ cups arborio rice or other risotto rice
- 200ml/7fl oz/scant 1 cup white wine
- 2 tbsp concentrated liquid vegetable stock
- 700ml/24fl oz/3 cups water
- 100g/3½oz/1¼ cups Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
To serve
- 100g/3½oz goat’s cheese, crumbled
- 100g/3½oz/generous ¹∕³ cup thick yogurt (10% fat)
- 120g/4¼oz/heaped 1 cup coarsely chopped almonds
- 50g/2oz croûtons (buy ready-made or roast bread cubes with oil and salt in the oven)
- fresh green salad
Method
- Heat the oil in a pan and quickly sauté the shallots and garlic until soft, then add the grated beetroot and the rice.
- Add the wine and bring to the boil, stirring. Then pour in the stock and about 100ml/3½fl oz/scant ½ cup of the water and continue to stir until the liquid has been absorbed. Continue to add water a little at a time, allowing it to cook into the rice.
- Meanwhile, mix together the crumbled goat’s cheese and yogurt for the topping.
- Heat up a dry frying pan and toast the almonds.
- When the rice has softened, stir in the grated cheese. Season to taste with salt and pepper, if needed.
- Serve the risotto with almonds, goat’s cheese cream, croûtons and a salad.
The Very Veggie Family Cookbook is available to buy from Amazon
It is published by Pavilion. Recipe photography by Ulrika Pousette.
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This sounds delicious… love it…
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Beetroot is one of my favourite foods, so it’s great to get another idea for using it. I must say the thought of attempting risotto has always scared me a little!
What a brilliant touch to almonds with it ! This I must try !!
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enjoy!
I rarely make risotto because it seems quite boring. But this actually appeals to me!!
jodie
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Ooh this is lovely, enjoy!
This looks really yummy. I dont like almonds but it looks like I could quite easily leave these off. I adore goats cheese so this is going on my to cook list!! Thanks for hosting xx
I can’t eat nuts but tried it without and it was yummy x
This recipe is absolutely spot on, Vicki, I am a HUGE fan of beetroot and you’ve combined it with the perfect ingredients:)
Sounds absolutely fabulous and a great course for dinner guests.
This sounds delicious, as a predominantly veggie eater myself it means large chunks of most cookbooks are redundant. Perfect summery recipe too!
I adore beetroot and goats cheese: and a good risotto is a dish of such joy. I am off to the allotment to pick the beetroot as this will be tonight’s meal. I can’t wait: not least for the flavour and the wonderful vibrancy. Thank you for posting such a wonderful recipe.
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Going to try this, two of my favourite ingredients Goat Cheese and Beetroot, yum!!
This sounds amazing – I love goats cheese with anything!
Helen x
Oh my goodness, this is my kind of food! What a beautiful dish. I’ll be looking out for Sara and Lisa’s cookbook. x
Your recipe looks stunnng! I will give this one a shot.
Yum! This looks incredible!! I love the colour. My kids love beetroot soup, so I imagine they would love this too! Love the simplicity of the recipe too – sounds a great book. Eb x
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