Want an easy meal to cook during your winter weeknights? We've found the perfect recipe to pair with our Champion Chardonnay Trophy Winning ROHE Southern Valleys Chardonnay 2023!
This Chardonnay features vibrant citrus and stone fruit aromas, including melon, ripe peach and necatrine, followed by notes of grapefruit, vanilla and brioche on the palate. These flavours are enhanced by a flinty complexity and a core of juicy acidity.
This wine is the perfect pairing with risotto, as the juicy acidity helps to balance out the richness of the cream. Read below for the recipe.
A Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Risotto - Recipe from Nagi Maehashi at Recipe Tin Eats
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 75g bacon
- 350g chicken thighs
- 400g mushrooms
- 30g butter
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 onion
- 125ml white wine (ROHE Chardonnay works well!) or chicken broth
- 250g risotto rice
- 4 cups / 1 litre chicken broth / stock
Garnishing
- 35g cheese
- 15-50g butter
- Freshly chopped parsley
Instructions:
- Pour yourself a glass of ROHE Southern Valleys Chardonnay 2023.
- Heat oil in a pan over high heat. Add bacon and cook until golden. Transfer to a small bowl.
- Leave about 1tbsp bacon fat in pan- discard excess. Add chicken and cook until browned and cooked through. Transfer to a separate bowl.
- Add mushrooms and cook until light golden. Add to chicken.
- Turn heat down to medium and return pan to the stove. Add butter and melt. Add garlic and onion. Saute for 3 minutes or until softened.
- Turn heat up to high, add rice and stir until the grains become partially translucent, no longer than 1 minute.
- Add the wine and cook, scraping the bottom of the pan (to get any brown bits) until the alcohol smell evaporates.
- Turn the heat down to medium-low. Add about 3 cups of stock. Then leave it, uncovered, stirring just once or twice, until most of the liquid has been absorbed.
- Check firmness of the rice and add 1/2 cup of stock at a time, stirring in between until absorbed, until the rice is cooked to your taste.
- Add chicken and mushrooms back into the risotto towards the end, just to heat through.
- Right at the end, when the risotto is ready, add a splash of chicken broth to make the risotto slightly soupy, then take it off the stove.
- KEY STEP: Add butter (the more the better) and cheese, then stir vigorously (activates the starch and makes it super creamy). The excess liquid will evaporate quickly, so add more if you want soupier risotto. (Like what you get at posh restaurants.)
- Serve immediately. Garnish with reheated bacon, add extra cheese and parsley if desired.
Delicious!
We really enjoyed this recipe with our ROHE Chardonnay and would love to hear what you thought about the pairing!
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