CREAMY ROASTED GARLIC AND CHIVES RISOTTO

Creamy Roasted Garlic and Chives Risotto image

A simple risotto that's easy to make. This recipe is full of flavor and you can customize it to suit your taste. You can add optional ingredients such as 1 cup of spinach, mushrooms, shrimp, or chicken. Serve warm.

Provided by Erin

Categories Main Dish Recipes Rice Risotto Recipes

Time 50m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

4 cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
4 cloves roasted garlic, mashed into a paste
4 leaves fresh sweet basil
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 shallot, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 ½ cups Arborio rice
¼ cup dry white wine
¼ cup half-and-half
¼ cup crumbled Gorgonzola cheese

Steps:

Combine chicken broth, chives, roasted garlic, and basil in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer.
Heat vegetable oil and butter in a separate pot over medium heat; cook and stir shallot and garlic in the hot oil-butter mixture until shallot is softened, about 5 minutes. Add rice to shallot mixture; increase heat to medium-high. Cook and stir until rice is fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add wine, reduce heat to low, and simmer until wine is absorbed, about 5 minutes.
Stir simmering broth mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, into rice mixture and continue to simmer until rice absorbs liquid; repeat, adding 1/2 cup of broth at a time, until all the broth is absorbed and rice is tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Stir half-and-half into risotto; fold in Gorgonzola cheese until melted.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 343.7 calories, Carbohydrate 49.6 g, Cholesterol 18.2 mg, Fat 11.9 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 6.5 g, SaturatedFat 3.8 g, Sodium 716.2 mg, Sugar 1.1 g