Straberry risotto
( Risotto con le fragole )

Strawberry risotto recipe

Preparation and cooking

• - Prepare broth.
  Keep it boiling while cooking your risotto.
• - Meanwhile add olive oil and rice in a large saucepan.
• - Cook until rice looks milky, 3 to 4 minutes.
• - Add wine and simmer until absorbed, stirring.
• - At this point add 2 ladlefuls of vegetable broth and simmer until absorbed, stirring now and then.
• - Continue adding broth, ladle by ladle, until rice is tender.
• - A minute before the end of cooking, add puréed strawberries.
  Remember to put apart some strawberries to garnish before reducing them to purée.

Just before serving

• - Turn off the stove, add chives and stir.
• - Let your strawberry risotto rest for few minutes before serving.
• - Serve in individual dishes or in a bowl topped with whole strawberries as you can see in the photo.

Note

Tips

• - Obviously strawberry risotto will never be a winter dish. The best season is always spring (May-June) when strawberries are very fragrant.
• - As risotto with strawberries is very simple, it is important to choose the finest ingredients: strawberries should be ripe and fragrant (don't choose big strawberries, you'll have the best results with medium-sized variety) and rice should not overcook.
• - This version of risotto with strawberries is suitable for people approaching the rice-fruit combination for the first time. It hasn't a high content of strawberries and the wine used is white.
• - Use fresh chives for the best result.
• - If you use brown rice, strawberry risotto is a real Mediterranean diet recipe!
• - You can mix rice with a cream cheese or mascarpone if you like, simultaneously with chives. But obviously total fat amount will be completely different.

Menu planning

• - Straberry risotto is a dish you can prepare for your daily menu or special occasions such as ceremonies celebrated at home.

Useful links for this recipe

• - Do you like strawberries? You could also be interested in another version of strawberry risotto in which I used asparagus too that is bicolor risotto or in strawberry-and-speck risotto.

Healthy eating

• - Daily menu. Risotto with strawberries has few ingredients. It's a low-calorie main dish, perfect for your family lunch in spring and summer. Read its nutrition facts. It's a low-fat risotto recipe too. Besides it tastes fantastic, so it's ideal when you're on a diet. Complete your menu with seasonal vegetables if you're still hungry. Asparagus are perfect. You can also choose boiled or grilled vegetable seasoned with a little olive oil. Consider that each tablespoon of olive oil provides 10 grams of fat and 90 calories.
  I remember rice should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals).
  At dinner you could eat a portion of meat or fish with raw or cooked vegetables and a portion of bread (50g - 1 3/4 ounce). The proteins you haven't eaten at lunch will be one of the main nutrient in your dinner.
  Here are the doses per head: 80g (2.8 ounces) long-grain parboiled rice, 50g (1 3/4 ounce) strawberries, the amount you prefer of chives, 250ml (8 1/2 fluid ounces or 1 cup) vegetable broth, less than 2 teaspoons olive oil and the amount of wine enough to cover your rice.
• - Celebration menu. If you prepare strawberry risotto for a celebration menu don't worry too much about its nutrition facts. It's a rare event.
• - Strawberry risotto has only 1.2 grams of fiber. The recommended daily value is 30g.
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Loretta

What's the right wine for " Straberry risotto "?

My husband and I match Italian "Prosecco" to strawberry risotto if served in a celebration menu. If choose this risotto for your daily menu pair Grignolino (red wine of Piedmont) or another young red wine.