Creamy Parmesan Risotto with Roasted Thyme Mushrooms

Sharing this easy Creamy Parmesan Risotto with Roasted Thyme Mushroom on this meatless Monday! This simple parmesan risotto is made in under an hour and is a great way to use pantry staples and lots of mushrooms. It’s creamy, garlicky, swirled with parmesan cheese, and finished with Roasted Thyme Mushrooms. Perfect cozy dinner any night of the week. If you are ever at a loss for what to make for an impromptu dinner party or just a random night, especially if there will be vegetarians at the table, consider this luxurious risotto.

Here Are the Step by Step Details:

This recipe comes together using ingredients that you more than likely already have—garlic, shallots, chicken stock, thyme, arborio rice, mushrooms, butter, salt and pepper.

Start with the Risotto, it’s simple and easy and very straight forward. Before even touching the risotto, you’re going to simmer the stock in a large saucepan and keep warm over low heat. You absolutely have to use warm stock when making this recipe. Adding cold stock to a hot pan will cool everything down and mess up the cooking process. Keep the stock at a simmer in a separate pan so everything stays hot and cooks evenly.

Next, you heat oil in a Dutch over medium heat, then add the garlic, shallots, half of the butter and thyme. Add the rice, let that get a little toasted, then sir in some dry white wine. If you don’t like to cook with wine, use an equal amount of apple juice (1:1 ratio). Once the wine has cooked into the rice, add chicken stock 1/2 cup at a time, stirring nearly constantly until each portion is absorbed before adding the next oh and be sure to season everything with salt and pepper to your taste.

Once the risotto has cooked add the rest of the butter and parmesan cheese.

Now moving on to the roasted mushrooms. You’re going to slice the mushrooms and place them on a baking sheet. Next, make a butter sauce on the stove using butter, thyme, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper, then you pour the sauce over the mushrooms, making sure they’re all coated before transferring the mushrooms to the oven.

To finish off this dish, divide the risotto into bowls then top it off with the roasted mushrooms, more cheese (because, duh) pepper, flaky sea salt and herbs. If you have leftover sauce from the mushrooms, make sure you pour that over the risotto as well!

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