WILD MUSHROOM RISOTTO
Ingredients
- 20g/¾oz butter
- 1 onion
- roughly chopped
- 1 garlic clove
- finely chopped
- 200ml/7fl oz dry white wine
- 300g/10½oz risotto rice
- 600ml/20fl oz mushroom stock
- 50g/1¾oz trumpet mushrooms
- 100g/3½oz girolle mushrooms
- 1 lemon
- juice only
- 2 flat-cap mushrooms
- peeled and cut into 5-mm dice
- 20g/¾oz Parmesan (or alternative vegetarian hard cheese)
- finely grated
- 50g/1¾oz mascarpone
- 50ml/2fl oz double cream
- splash truffle oil
- 3 small fresh ceps
- shaved
- 8 fresh parsley leaves
- chopped
- 8 fresh tarragon leaves
- chopped
- sea salt flakes
- 1 small truffle
- shaved
- to garnish
- olive oil
- to garnish
Directions
- Heat half the butter in a large saucepan and sweat the onion and garlic until transparent. Pour in the wine
- reduce the heat and cook for a few minutes. Add the risotto rice and mushroom stock and bring back to the boil. Cook for 7 minutes over a high heat. Drain the rice
- reserving the liquor in a saucepan.
- Heat the remaining butter in a frying pan and sauté the trumpet and girolle mushrooms. Lightly season with salt and lemon juice to taste.
- Gently heat up the saucepan of liquor
- cooking until it is reduced by half. Add in the flat-cap mushrooms and stir in the rice. Cook
- stirring constantly
- until the rice is tender. Stir in the Parmesan
- mascarpone and double cream and season with salt
- lemon juice to taste and a splash of truffle oil. Mix in the parsley and tarragon just before serving.
- Spoon into bowls and arrange the girolle and trumpet mushrooms on top. Garnish with the ceps
- shaved truffle
- olive oil and salt. Serve immediately.

