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Risotto Mantecato ai Quattro Formaggi Recipe

Ingredients

6 1/4 cups vegetable stock
 
3 tablespoons butter
 
One onion, thinly sliced
 
2 cups rice for risotto
 
2 ounces fontina cheese, diced - a semi-hard, Italian-style cow's milk cheese a milk fat  - a buttery cheese
 
2 ounces Emmenthal cheese - mild, nutty, and slightly sweet flavor -
substitute with 
Gruyère, Jarlsberg, Comté, Havarti

2 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, diced - a soft and creamy or firm and crumbly, with the mold providing a strong and tangy flavor.
 
2/3 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, freshly grated

Directions

Risotto Mantecato ai Quattro Formaggi Recipe

 

1. Bring the stock to a boil.

2. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a different pan and the onion and cook string occasionally for five minutes.

3. Stir the rice and cook until the grains are coated in butter.

4. Add a ladleful of the hot stock, stirring until it has been absorbed.

5. Continue adding the stock a ladleful at a time, and stirring until each addition has been absorbed.

6. This will take 18 to 20 minutes.

7. About five minutes before the rice is cooked, stir in all the cheeses.

8. When the rice is tender, and the cheeses have melted, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the remaining butter.

Serve immediately.