Radicchio and roasted pumpkin risotto with gingered pumpkin cream and braised fennel

Preparation info
  • For

    four

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Café Paradiso Cookbook

By Denis Cotter

Published 1999

  • About

Pumpkin risotto is my ultimate comfort food and the gingered pumpkin cream here adds another layer of pampering for pumpkin lovers. I must admit I first made the cream for its colour and was a bit insecure about the whole dish, which also featured braised beetroot and leek along with the fennel; it looked stunning. Anyway, some of the fussiest of risotto eaters gave it the all-clear and I relaxed. The radicchio’s function in this bliss zone is to give a slightly bitter contrasting edge, tho