Cauliflower cheese and chilli risotto

If you love cauliflower cheese like I do, you’ll be over the moon with this!

Ingredients

• 1 large red onion
• 2 sticks of celery
• Few sprigs of fresh tyme
• 2 knobs of butter
• Olive oil
• 300g cauliflower
• Chicken stock
• 1 red chilli
• 100g parmesan cheese
• 300g risotto rice
• 200ml white wine

Method:

1. Add the knob of butter to a warm pan and add the onion, celery, thyme and cook over a low heat for 5 mins.
2. Add the cauliflower a separate pan which has the chicken stock already in it and cook.
3. Add the rice to the other pan once all the vegetables (onion,celery&thyme) in the pan are soft.
4. Add the wine to this pan and keep stirring until all the rice has been absorbed.
5. Add a ladle full of the hot stock and cauliflower and stir constantly adding a ladle at a time.
6. Gently mash the cauliflower into the rice as it cooks.
7. Take the pan off the heat once all the stock has been added to the rice and add half the parmesan.
8. Serve the rissotto and then add the rest of the parmesan on top and sprinkle with the chilli.

Enjoy!!

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