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Mushroom, Bacon & Spring Onion Risotto

 

Ingredients

15ml olive oil

125g streaky bacon, chopped

250g Button or Portabellini mushrooms, quartered

150g Baby Button mushrooms

30g butter

400g risotto rice

½ litre hot chicken or vegetable stock

60g Parmesan cheese, finely grated

milled black pepper

4 spring onions, thinly sliced

20ml fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped

 

Method

1 Heat the oil in a pan and fry the bacon for 4-5 minutes.

2 Add the mushrooms and cook for 4-5 minutes.

3 Add the butter and risotto rice and cook for 1 minute.

4 Stir a ladleful of the hot stock into the rice mixture and cook over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes, or until the stock has been absorbed.

5 Continue adding the stock, a ladleful at a time, and cooking until it has been absorbed before adding more stock.

6 As soon as the rice is creamy and tender, stir in the Parmesan cheese, milled black pepper to taste and the spring onions.

7 Serve at once sprinkled with chopped flat-leaf parsley.