Risotto with mushrooms and aged local cheese Silter DOP from Valle Camonica

A tasty and creamy first course? Mushroom and cheese risotto is a really easy and quick first course to prepare, a classic autumn or winter recipe.

Mushrooms and high mountain aged cheese meet to create a first course with a delicate and artisanal taste. A risotto that in its delicacy smells of the mountains thanks to the fragrance of herbs and mountain essences of Silter, a typical Valle Camonica cheese produced exclusively in mountain pastures with raw milk from Alpine Brown cows between Lake Iseo and the Tonale and Gavia Passes.

Preparation of risotto with mushrooms and Silter cheese PDO

• To prepare risotto with mushrooms and Silter cheese , sauté the very finely chopped onion in a saucepan with a knob of butter.
• When the onion is browned, add the chopped mushrooms and simmer adding the stock cube and a little water.
  Also add the parsley and finally the rice.
• About halfway through cooking, add the silter cheese and when the rice is almost cooked, the cooking cream, which will make it creamy and tasty.
• When the cooking is finished , add fresh chopped parsley and serve the mushroom and cheese risotto.

Recipe by CiaoGnari Enoteca Italiana in Paris