MODENA RISOTTO (PUMPKIN, PARMIGGIANO REGGIANO, AND MODENA BALSAMIC VINEGAR)

 

 

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Modena Risotto (Pumpkin, Parmiggiano Reggiano, and Modena Balsamic Vinegar)

ingredients for 4 people:

400 g. of rice Vialone Nano,

400 g. of pumpkin,

1 shallot,

1.5 l. of vegetable broth,

60 g. of butter,

60 g. of Parmigiano Reggiano,

extra virgin olive oil,

1 dl. of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar,

white wine,

a little salt and pepper.

Brown the chopped shallot, add the pumpkin cut into coarse cubes (save someone to put in the risotto), salt and pepper.

 

 

Cover with hot water and cook

 

 

Blend until creamy

 

 

Reduce the Traditional Balsamic Vinegar to the consistency of a syrup (it is possible to buy the reduction already made) Toast the rice with a little extra virgin olive oil,

 

 

sprinkle with a little white wine and cook

 

 

adding hot broth gradually

 

 

and towards the end the pumpkin cream.

 

 

When cooked, stir off the heat with butter and Parmigiano Reggiano

 

 

Lay the rice on the plate and decorate it with Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

 

 

Wine to match

I wanted to stay in the area to give an idea of all that Modena can offer with a Lambrusco, but it is a very particular Lambrusco.

This is the Rosé of Cantina Della Volta, a classic vintage harvest 2012 method and makes 48 months on the lees, the same that the French use to make Champagne.

It is a very special thing, because usually Lambrusco is drunk very young.

On the one hand we have the softness, the fatness given by the butter and the creaming, and on the other hand the verticality, the elegance, the acidity and the freshness of the classic Lambrusco method.

On the one hand we take a characteristic dish from Northern Italy in its typical Modena version, with balsamic vinegar, on the other we take a typical Modena grape but in an international version that goes beyond the borders.

Not having the possibility here in Canada to have this type of wine, I have however chosen another type of Lambrusco, also very good.

 

 

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