Warehouse stores like Costco are a dangerous place because you can't just get some of something, you have to get a TON of it. It's fine when it's something like toilet paper or rice, but when it's perishable, it becomes a race to finish all of that goat cheese. To be honest, the cheese aisle is where I lose myself at Costco. Last go round, the goat cheese got me but I ain't mad about that.
This goat cheese risotto recipe is borne of the need to use up a good chunk of goat cheese at once, but in a way that highlights the slight tang of it, the creaminess that it imparts to whatever dish it joins in with. Risotto is a perfect canvas for a cheese artist to experiment with the flavors against a neutral but eternally delicious backdrop.
Goat Cheese Risotto
Ingredients
- 3 cups assorted vegetables: green beans, bell peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, zucchini diced to the size of a thumbnail
- 3 cloves garlic peeled
- 2 tbsp olive oil divided
- 1 cup onion finel diced
- 1 cup Arborio rice
- 1 cup white wine
- 3 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- 1 cup Toscano or Parmesan cheese
- 4 oz. goat cheese
Instructions
- Toss the diced vegetables with t tbsp of olive oil. Place in an oven preheated to 400 degrees and bake for 45 minutes, flipping vegetables around with a spatula every 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat up the stock in a small pan over medium heat.
- Heat up the other tbsp of olive oil in a larger pot over medium high heat. Once heated, add onions and stir to coat.
- Saute the onions for about 3 minutes, and try not to let the onions brown.
- Stir in the arborio rice and stir to coat in oil. Let the rice toast for about 2 minutes.
- Pour in the white wine and stir to coat. Let the wine absorb for about 3-4 minutes.
- Add a cup at a time of warmed stock to the pot. Add another once it had absorbed, for a total of 3 times. But at the last cupful, do not let but about half of the liquid absorb.
- Turn off the heat, fluff the rice, and add the cheeses. Use your stirring spoon to cover the cheese in hot rice to help it melt.
- Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- The vegetables should be done by now, so pull those out of the oven.
- To serve, spoon rice into a plate or bowl, and top with vegetables and additional shredded cheese as desired.
Want more goat cheese recipes? Try goat cheese fudge and goat cheese and honey and caramelized onions over grits.