Risotto with vegetables

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the specified products. To prepare risotto with vegetables, you can take any vegetables to taste, frozen or ready-made vegetable mixes are also suitable. But to cook risotto, you need to take a special rice - Arborio (I have medium-sized) or another suitable for this dish. Vegetable broth is needed for cooking, it can be replaced with a vegetable broth cube or, in extreme cases, boiling water. To prepare risotto, you will need two frying pans.

2. Step 2:

   

   Vegetables for cooking risotto should be washed and cut. Put the pan on the fire and reheat. Pour olive oil (1 tbsp. l.) and first fry the vegetables on high heat, then reduce the heat and continue to fry the vegetables until tender, 15-18 minutes, stirring them constantly. Cooking time may vary depending on the selected vegetables.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat another frying pan over high heat, pour olive oil and put butter, melt it, mixing with olive oil. Put the chopped onion and garlic in a frying pan, fry them until transparent.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add rice to the pan and stir. Fry the rice together with onion and garlic until the rice is transparent, 3-4 minutes. Add dry white wine and evaporate it.

5. Step 5:

   

   Reduce the heat to slightly less than average, pour 150 ml of vegetable broth into the rice and continue cooking rice until the broth evaporates, stirring it constantly. When the broth has evaporated, pour in the broth again (150 ml) and, stirring the rice, also cook.

7. Step 6:

   

   When the vegetables are almost ready, add the peas to them and continue to fry until it is ready. If necessary, vegetable broth can be added to the vegetables.

8. Step 7:

   

   Add rice to the finished vegetables, mix. Add salt and pepper to taste.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour in the remaining broth and cook, stirring the rice with vegetables, until the rice is ready, but at the same time its readiness should be "Al Dente" (literally: by the tooth, i.e. to such a degree of readiness when the rice remains slightly firm, but not tough).

10. Step 9:

    

    Ready-made risotto with vegetables to serve hot, this is an independent dish, but can act as a side dish to meat dishes. If desired, the rice can be sprinkled with grated parmesan.