Afghan Risotto

Shola is a sticky, short-grain rice dish, cooked until soft in a tomato broth with carrots and turmeric, which together give it a warm pumpkin color. Typically, this Afghan dish is made with diced chicken; however, I have substituted chewy shiitake mushrooms, which only enhances the flavor of the rice dish. This is one of those enormous one-pot meals meant to feed large, multigenerational Afghan families; it’s inexpensive, full of nutrition and packed with flavor to feed a household on the