Leek & Bacon Risotto
Leek & Bacon Risotto

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The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek. The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus Allium also contains the onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, chive, and Chinese onion.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook leek & bacon risotto using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Leek & Bacon Risotto:
  1. Get 200 g Arborio risotto rice
  2. Get 350 leek, finely sliced
  3. Make ready 7 slices bacon, chopped
  4. Prepare 3 cubes vegetable stock
  5. Get 1 litre hot water
  6. Take 30 g butter
  7. Take Handful chopped walnuts
  8. Prepare 70 g Gorgonzola cheese or Stilton cheese, crumbled
  9. Get 3 tbs Olive oil
  10. Make ready flaked chilli pepper

As a milder onion, one of the most popular preparations is buttered leeks, which can be incorporated into a dish or enjoyed as a vegetable side. They're great in chicken and ham dishes and particularly tasty for recipes that include cheese and cream. Find leek recipes, videos, and ideas from Food Network. Leek tops should be dark green and firm, not limp or dried out.

Steps to make Leek & Bacon Risotto:
  1. Ingredients
  2. Add vegetable stocks to 1 litre of hot water and allow the cubes are dissolved. - - Heat the oil in a pan and cook the chopped bacon until it’s fried and cooked. Remove it from the pan and Set aside.
  3. Place the same pan with risotto rice and chopped leeks on the medium heat. Add a ladle of vegetable stock and stirring until absorbed,
  4. Stirring until absorbed, then repeat the process with adding other ladle of stock. Stir until the stock has been absorbed, then add another ladle of stock, keep adding stock and stirring until the rice is cooked. It will take about 25 minutes.Once the rice is cooked, remove from the heat and stir in flaked chilli, bacon, crumbled cheese and butter.
  5. Cover the pot with a lid and set aside for 5 minutes, until butter and cheese melted. Top it with toasted walnuts and ready to be served.

The bulb ends should have fringes of small crisp-looking roots still attached; avoid split or soft bulbs, or those with large blemishes. Refrigerate leeks up to one week, loosely wrapped in plastic. Wait to trim the tops and roots until just before using. Most leek cooking methods soften the leeks, but we want to celebrate the fresh, crunchy flavor of these alliums! You can use pickled leeks on anything that calls for pickled onions.

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