Description
The best easy risotto – made in the oven! Served up with some garlic roasted mushrooms and a lemony arugula salad. YUM!
Ingredients
Mushrooms:
- 2–3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 lb. mushrooms, sliced
- 1 teaspoon salt
Risotto:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup arborio rice
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3–4 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter
- zest and juice of one lemon
- 1 teaspoon salt (more or less to taste)
Instructions
- Mushroom Prep: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toss mushroom ingredients together on a rimmed baking sheet.
- Risotto Prep: Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium low heat. Add garlic and arborio rice. Saute until the garlic is smelling really yummy and the pan looks dry. Add wine; stir and let it sizzle out. Add 2 1/2 cups of the chicken stock. Bring to a simmer.
- Risotto Part 1: Put a lid on the risotto pot. Transfer both pans to the oven (risotto on top, mushrooms on bottom). Bake for 14-15 minutes. Remove the risotto pot, but let the mushrooms keep roasting – increase to 400 degrees, and bake for another 5-8 minutes, until golden brown. Remove mushrooms from oven.
- Risotto Part 2: Place risotto back over a medium low heat. Slowly add in remaining 1-or-so cups of broth, stirring between additions until nice and creamy. Stir in the Parmesan, butter, lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt. Taste. Taste again. SO SO GOOD.
- Serve: Risotto, topped with mushrooms, topped with more Parm and lemon. Serve with a side salad and/or sprinkle with fresh parsley. You are totally at a restaurant right now.
Notes
I just used plain ol’ sliced button mushrooms. Worked great.
I usually move the mushrooms to the top rack once I take the risotto out.
I served mine with just a little side of arugula tossed with some extra olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and Parmesan.
Be sure to use freshly grated Parmesan cheese – the bagged stuff doesn’t melt in quite as smoothly as the finely, freshly grated stuff.
It’s very important that you bring that risotto pot to a simmer before putting it in the oven. I forgot to do this one time and it resulted in completely under-done risotto that I pretty much had to cook full-stop on the stove.
The lemon juice really makes this come together. You want just enough for it to wake the whole dish up, but not so much that it screams LEMON. I used the juice of one whole (very juicy) lemon, and I usually just taste as a I go. Do as you wish!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Italian
Keywords: oven risotto, lemon arugula salad, roasted mushrooms
