Shallots and Red wine risotto

Ingredients: (2 persons)

• Risotto rice
• 1 bottle of red wine (merlot is good) - use half for the risotto, half for you when you prepare
• 4 Shallots (2 for decoration)
• vegetable stock (also work with chicken)
• 2 garlic cloves
• Butter
• Parmesan
• parsley or thyme (2 options)

Steps

1. Rince rice
2. in a pan, heat stock
3. dice shallots + garlic cloves
4. in a different pan, put butter (and a bit of oil so butter doesn’t burn)
5. add shallots + garlic + thyme
6. add rice (rinsed) + red wine
7. add stock (when needed)
8. when it’s ready, add: parmesan, parsley and 100g of butter

Serve the risotto with the shallots decoration on top… and a glass of red wine

For the decoration (10mins before it’s ready)

1. in a third pan, add a bit of butter+oil
2. once it’s ready add 2 shallots (cut in half)
3. add a bit of red wine (for colouration + taste)
4. cook at very low heat for 5-10 mins

Variant:

add mushroom (preferably swiss brown)