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I had originally included this risotto as a variation tip in my Risotto Recipe, but as it is differently enough and I wanted to feature some pumpkin recipes on my blog, I decided to include it as it’s own post as well. A short mention as a variation tip doens’t do this dish justice. When it is autumn I like to make this risotto. It’s filled with warm pumpkin and apple and cinnamon. The pumpkin and apple get soft in the oven and it’s the perfect combination with the cinnamon flavoured rice.
This recipe is based on her The Cozy Apron her Roasted Pumpkin Risotto
Ingredients
- Pumpkin – half a pumpkin
- Apples – 2
- Onion – 1
- Risotto Rice/ arborio rice – 250 gram/ 1 1/4 cup
- Water – 1 liter/ 4 cups
- Low Salt Vegetable Bouillon cubes – 2
- Cinnamon – 1 teaspoon
- Olive Oil
This recipe feeds around 4 people.
Method
- Slice and the dice the onion in small pieces and throw it in the wok, add some olive oil. Don’t bake it yet, but prepare the other ignredients first.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius/ 392 degrees fahrenheit. Then peel, slice and dice the pumpkin and apples into tiny squares. Place the pumpkin and apple squares on a baking sheet covered plate and place in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Now bake the onion in the wok till translucent.
- Add the rice, the water combined with the bouillon cubes and the cinnamon. Let it cook for about 20 minutes.
- Once the apple and pumpkin are done, get them out of the oven. Pick up the baking sheet, fold it in two and hold on the top, then shake it so the apple and pumpkin fall into the wok. Stir till combined.
- Enjoy your risotto!
Pictures
Variation Tips
- Pumpkin Spice. I know in america they often sell pumpkin spice and I think that would work great too instead of cinnamon.
- Pumpkin, corn and apple Risotto. Add a small can of corn to the recipe, to add soem colour and extra veggies.
- Pumpkin and Apple Risotto with meat. If you like soem meat with your risotto either add saucages like The Cozy Apron does in ehr recipe or add some chicken.
I like the look of it, but with apple and cinnamon ? Hemmm, nope 😉 Maybe with pumpkin and something else !
Maybe pumpkin and corn or red bell pepper or mushrooms? I think you could easily swap the apple for something else that you do like:).
Mushrooms, yes, it’s a good idea – and perfect for the season 🙂
Yes that’s what I thought too, although I don’t like mushrooms myself I do think they fit this dish.
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You’re just like my daughters, I usually hide mushrooms in their soup so they don’t know they’re eating them 😉
You’ll have to cut the mushrooms very very small for me not to notice them. I can’t stand the texture of them.
This look dang delicious!!! I have never tried a pumpkin dinner dish. I have mostly just done desserts with pumpkin. But I love anything pumpkin, so I definitely need to try this.
This was the first pumpkin dinner dish I tried. I also made a curry with pumpkin once, but that one wasn’t a big succes. For pumpkin desserts I have tried pumpkin cookies, which were great, and a pumpkin pie, but that was a disaster, lol.
Mm…thanks for sharing. This looks quite yummy!
I really like this dish and it’s perfect for fall.
That looks delicious and not a ton of ingredients. I usually just do pumpkin bread or pie. I will saute squash or mash it, but I’ve never done that with pumpkin.
I’ll have to find a recipe for pumpkin bread, that sounds yummy! I like that about this recipe how it requires very little ingredients and it’s really good. I also have eaten mashed squash for dinner, that’s yummy too!
That looks and sounds really interesting. I’ve never actually eaten pumpkin in this way. I’ve only had pumpkin in pies or cookies.
So far this is the only pumpkin dinner dish that I really like. I also ate a pumpkin curry once, but that recipe wasn’t to my taste.
You know I’m a HUGE fan of pumpkin, Lola, so any recipe with pumpkin in it sounds delicious! I’m going to try this one – see if I can tempt my pickiest eater with it. 🙂
I really like pumpkin too, this is my favourite dinenr recipe with it so far. I hope you and your family like this one and that even your pickiest eater will like it. I am a picky eater too, so I can relate 😉
can this be made without onion? cause then i’m def making it this week >.>
Sure! I personally like onion, so I often add it to my dishes, but the flavour won’t chance too much without it I think. You can always add some other veggies like mushrooms if you want to.
Let me know how it turns out 🙂
That looks so yummy! I love pumpkin and apple together! Great recipe! I am going to pin it to try soon!
Me too, pumpkin and apple is a great combination! Let me know once you give it a try and how it turns out :D!
Mmm, this sounds really yummy. I don’t make enough risotto!
I try to make it once every few weeks. I am not a big rice eater, but I do like risotto. And it’s fun to try out different variations.
Risotto is like one of the things I LOVE to eat. My brother makes all kinds of variations of it for me, and this pumpkin/apple risotto recipe sounds like heaven. I just showed it to him hoping he’d whip it up for me the next time we meet 😀 😀 😀
I also like to try out different variations of risotto, there are so many different things you can add to it. I hope your brother will make this recipe for you once :).
I’m totally curious about this, though I’m not sure about the cinnamon? Is it a subtle flavour?
We always eat pumpkin as a savoury thing (roasted, mashed, steamed, soup, etc) and it’s the perfect addition to risotto, I’ll have to give this a try! 🙂
It’s not too overwheleming, although you can also skip it or add less if you aren’t sure you’ll like it.
I have tried roasted, mashed and soup so far with pumpkin and some sweet things like cookies and cake. I do think it works really well with risotto. I hope you’ll give it a try 🙂