Risotto : Mushrooms With Garlic, Thyme and Parsley
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 9 ounces fresh mushrooms (I like a mix of different kinds, oyster, shiitake, cremini, chanterelles, reconstituted dried porcin)
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- fresh thyme, chopped or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- salt
- flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 1⁄4 teaspoon chili powder
- lemon juice
- fresh ground black pepper
directions
- Thinly slice or tear the mushrooms.
- In a very hot pan, heat the olive oil, and add the mushrooms and thyme. Cook for 1 minute, toss them, then add the garlic and a pinch of salt.
- Cook for 2 or 3 more minutes, taste them to make sure they're cooked through. Add some parsley, a pinch of chili powder, a squeeze of lemon juice, and some pepper. Toss about another minute more, and remove from the heat.
- Finely chop half the cooked mushroom mixture. Add the chopped half to the basic risotto recipe at step 8 (the same time you add liquid or stock).
- Add the other half of the mushroom mixture at step 12 (with the butter and cheese at the very end).
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I never really knew how to cook growing up. Some of you in the Breads and Baking forum have heard my disastrous story about making Nestle Toll House cookies...
When I went to college and moved out of the dorms, I started to become interested in actually learning how to cook. I had a lactose intolerant boyfriend, and a limited budget, so it made sense to stop eating take-out pizza and Taco Bell every day. I have to credit The Dairy Free Cookbook by Jane Zukin as my first real guide. (I still cook out of it , even though the boyfriend is long gone!)
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***** Fantastic as is. Wouldn't change a thing and will make it often.
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00*** Had to tweak it alot to get something I would make again.
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