Creamy Pesto Risotto
Pesto sauce:
5-6 cups fresh basil
¼ cup pine nuts (or other nuts of choice)
3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
¼ - ½ cup cashew cream or soymilk
2 cloves garlic
½ teaspoon salt
Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until fairly smooth, scraping down sides of bowl periodically to make sure you get everything incorporated. Set aside.
(to make cashew cream put 1/8 cup of raw cashews in a blender with ½ cup water and blend until smooth)
Risotto
2 cups Arborio rice
8 cups water or vegetable broth
1 onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
¾ cup white wine
Place vegetable broth in a pan and heat to boiling, then reduce the heat to keep it simmering. Place onions and garlic in a large sauté pan with enough water to steam fry (1/4-1/2 cup) Steam fry until onions are translucent, adding splashes of water if needed to prevent it from drying out. Once onions are translucent and the water has all evaporated, add the risotto and stir with a non-metal spoon for about 2 minutes. Add the wine and continue stirring until most of the wine has evaporated. Set the timer for 25 minutes now. Start adding about a ladle full of the broth to the risotto and continue stirring until most of the liquid has evaporated. (you want the pan hot enough for the broth to sizzle when it is added to the rice) Continue doing this until all the broth is gone (about 20-25 minutes). Remove the cooked rice from the heat and mix well with the pesto sauce and serve.
This is the second post I have seen today for risotto and now I am craving it! Pesto risottos sounds like a fantastic idea!
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