Recipe: Chocolate-strawberry rissotto

Try this incredibly sweet twist to the classic risotto

Ingredients:

• Arborio rice 80 gms 
• Clarified butter 10 ml 
• Mascarpone cheese 30 gms 
• Butter 5 gms 
• Strawberry 80 gms 
• Chocolate 20 gms 
• Sugar 10 gms 
• Salt To taste 
• Balsamic Vinegar few drops 
• Sweet vermouth (or wine) 10 ml 
• Vanilla essence few drops

Method:

• Keep one whole strawberry for garnish and cop the rest into fine dices.
• Heat clarified butter and add rice to it and lightly toast it starts to give aroma.
• Deglaze with vermouth or wine then add Hot water to it ladle by ladle to it. Add sugar and 
• salt to it.
• Just when it is eighty percent cooked add the chopped strawberries to it. 
• Cook further till al dente and then add mascarpone cheese, butter and balsamic vinegar.
• Stir vigorously so that it comes out to be creamy.
• Take out the risotto in a plate and garnish with strawberry and a quenelle of mascarpone cheese and a chocolate stick.

This recipe has been contributed by Executive Chef Girish Kumar at Courtyard By Marriott Pune Chakan.