Halloween recipe for 6 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has basil, garlic clove, pine nut, olive oil, parmesan, garlic clove, chicken stock, unsalted butter, pumpkin, olive oil, onion, arborio rice, pecorino, parmesan, shallot, plain flour and vegetable oil.
Garlicky pumpkin risotto
Course: Halloween
Servings
6
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Oil: vegetable oil, for shallow frying
- Garlic Clove: 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- Parmesan: 50g parmesan, finely grated
- Olive Oil: olive oil
- Onion: 1 small onion, finely chopped
- Basil: large bunch basil, leaves and stalks torn
- Shallot: 50g shallots, finely chopped
- Chicken Stock: 1.4l hot chicken stock
- Plain Flour: 100g plain flour, seasoned with salt and pepper
- Unsalted Butter: 85g unsalted butter
- Pine Nut: 3 tbsp pine nuts, toasted
- Pumpkin: 400g/14oz piece pumpkin (unpeeled weight), peeled, seeded and cut into 1cm cubes
- Pecorino: 100g pecorino, finely grated
- Arborio Rice: 400g arborio rice
Directions
- Make the pesto. Pulse the basil, garlic and pine nuts in a food processor to a coarse paste, adding enough olive oil to produce a loose-textured puree. Pour into a bowl and fold in the parmesan.
- Blanch remaining garlic in boiling water for 3 mins, until slightly softened. Drain, return to the pan with 200ml/7fl oz of the chicken stock and half the butter. Simmer for about 15 mins until the garlic is soft and coated in the syrupy stock. Remove from the heat. You can do this up to 4 hrs in advance.
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Toss the pumpkin cubes with the olive oil in a roasting tin, and roast for 10-15 mins until the flesh is just tender.
- Make the crispy shallots. Dust them in the flour and shake off excess. Heat 2cm oil in a large pan and fry until light golden brown. Drain and keep warm.
- Sweat the onion in the remaining butter in a large shallow pan until soft, about 5 mins. Tip in the rice, raise the heat and toast until translucent. Lower the heat and add the remaining stock a ladleful at a time, stirring well until the stock is completely absorbed before you add the next ladleful.
- Once the rice is al dente, fold in the 2 cheeses, garlic cloves and pumpkin and cook for 2 mins. Serve with a drizzle of pesto and the shallots on top.
