Zucchini and Pumpkin Risotto
January 13, 2012
Zucchini and Pumpkin Risotto
I have a large number of zucchini recipes (in addition to lots of Spinach recipes) up my sleeve. Last year we had so many zucchini’s I got sick of eating them in every meal we had. I have just picked my first one for the year and this is what I used it in.
An easy vegetarian family recipe. It can satisfy meat lovers by adding chicken or prosciutto if desired – See Hints and Tips at the end of the recipe.
Zucchini and Pumpkin Risotto
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Author: Kyrstie Barcak - A Fresh Legacy
Recipe type: Main
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 3 fresh garlic cloves finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 cups of Arborio rice
- ½ cup of white wine
- 1 litre of good quality vegetable stock
- 250 grams of pumpkin cut into 3 cm cubes
- 2 medium zucchini (courgette) peeled and sliced
- ½ cup of fresh sage leaves
- 5 small sprigs of fresh lemon thyme
- salt and pepper to season
- Parmesan cheese to serve if desired
Instructions
- Cook the zucchini on a griddle pan
- Set oven to 180 degrees
- Add a drizzle of oil and season pumpkin with salt and pepper and bake for 20 minutes
- Put garlic and olive oil into a pan and cook until fragrant
- Add the rice and stir until coated for a few minutes
- Add the wine and thyme and stir until the wine is absorbed
- Add the stock 1 cup at a time. Add the next cup when the previous has been absorbed. When one cup remains add the pumpkin, zucchini, sage, and salt and pepper. Stir gently until the stock is absorbed.
- Serve topped with shaved Parmesan cheese if desired
Hints and Tips:
- To speed up this recipe you can cook the zucchini and the pumpkin the day before, or earlier in the day.
- For meat lovers – grill a chicken breast, cut into strips and top the risotto with it.
Inspiring families to grow at least one fresh food item at home to experience the benefits of fresh food.
Linking in from TIK – I am going to give this recipe a try. I LOVE risotto but it is one of the dishes that I never seem to be able to get right so always on the look out for a new recipe to try and hopefully get right.
HAve you tried selling your surplus on your footpath with a batch of them and an honesty box (not sure if that is suitable wherever you are but I have seen it so often it must work in some places !!!) ?
Have a great day !
Hi Linda, thanks for visiting. I think this recipe is fail safe. Let me know what you think. We could sell excess here I think. I am considering taking any excess this season to my Mothers Group to swap for the (different) excess they have. I do that with my next door neighbour also. She checks what I have planted and plants alternate things. I am having a great day, I hope you do too 🙂 Thanks again. K
As promised here is the Kasouni recipe which is a good way to make use of excess zucchini’s. I got home from holidays yesterday and said to Mark that we have no vegies. I then picked purple beans, butter beans, potatoes, broccoli, carrot, cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, leeks and beetroot from the garden.
Kasouni
90 gm black mustard seeds
250 gm fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
500 ml malt vinegar
125 gm garlic, peeled and chopped
60 gm green chili (use only 1/3 unless you like it really hot)
2kg of zucchini (or tomato or eggplant) finely chopped or grated
250ml sunflower/grapeseed oil
30 gm tumeric
90gm Cumin
60gm chilli powder
250 gm brown sugar
60-90gm salt
Mince ginger, garlic and chillis with 50 ml of vinegar
Heat oil until very hot and add the mustard, tumeric, cumin, chilli powder. Stir for approx 5 mins taking care it doesn’t stick or burn
Add minced garlic, ginger and chilli and cook for 5 mins
Add everything else and simmer for 60-90 mins.
It is ready when the oil comes to the top and it is thickened. The smell will infiltrate your kitchen!!
Put in hot jars and seal. It was last up to 2 years.
Happy Cooking!!
Hi Mel, happy new year. Your garden sounds very productive I am going to come and have a look soon. I can’t wait to try your recipe, thanks for sharing it! Kx
hi i was just wondering if there is anything i can use to substitute the white wine
thankyou
You could use white wine vinegar, or just leave it out all together.