Roast Winter Vegetable Risotto

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6-8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Open Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1996

  • About

This risotto has a great texture with plenty of the roasted winter vegetables giving flavours and, of course, colours to the dish. It’s as basic as our other risotto dishes but leaves a totally different taste.

To finish this dish, I’ve made what I call a Roast Gravy Dressing. It certainly doesn’t sound vegetarian, but it is. The gravy taste comes from the reduction of Madeira. When reduced, Madeira can give a sweet but almost ‘meaty’ rich flavour. Also, once the vegetables have bee