Vegan Mushrooms Risotto with Vegan Parmesan Cheese

Finally another recipe with mushrooms! Spoil yourselves and add many weird, yummy kinds of mushrooms.

The idea for the parmesan I "borrowed" from a product I encountered in one of the stores. It looked pretty simple to make, but of course I added a few ingredients so it will not be a total "borrow". Actually it turned out pretty yummy.

Cooking Risotto is much simpler than it looks, and not like preparing normal rice, when you put it in a pot with water and wait, here there is much more place for personal touch. What makes it much more interesting and fun.

The ingredients :

     For the Risotto –

250g Risotto rice, which were soaked in water for a few hours (The soaking stage is very important, especially for dried grains and legumes, because it gives them a bit life back and makes them be more "ready" for cooking. )

Many kinds of mushrooms, fresh and dried (the dried mushrooms have a unique taste and you should soak them in warm water for about an hour before using them. With the same water use also to make the Risotto.)

100ml your preferred vegan cooking cream

Onion

A few cloves of garlic

A couple of bay leaves

Good oil (I like to use coconut oil)

Lemon

Two glasses of a good red dry wine (one for the cook and one for the dish, of course)

Some sea salt

Some pepper  

     For the Parmesan –

3 spoons of nutritional Yeast

2 spoons of sunflower seeds

About an handful of walnuts

Some cashew nuts

Some pepper

Sea salt

A pinch of Turmeric

Starting with the Risotto. Chop the onion and sauté it for a few minutes in a pot with some oil. Add some chopped garlic and inhale the aroma that fills the kitchen. After a few minutes chop the mushrooms and add them as well. Add some salt and pepper and stir.

In the meanwhile wash the rice nicely, then add it to the pot and stir. After a few moments add the glass of wine and the bay leaves, stir, lower the heat, sit a few minutes and enjoy the glass of wine you made yourselves.

Now starts a kind of a tricky stage. You add some hot water, stir, let the rice absorb the water and then add some more water and repeat. It's very important to keep on stirring so the rice will not stick and burn. You continue like this until your cooking senses tell you that the rice is ready. Or you just taste it.   

After the rice is ready turn the heat off, add the cream, stir, cover the pot and let it rest aside for a few minutes. In the meantime make the Parmesan.

It's actually very simple. Just put the ingredients in a mixer and grind them until they are pulverized, and add salt and pepper.

After the rice rested a bit and absorbed all of the yummy tastes, arrange it nicely on a plate, squeeze some lemon juice on top, add some of the Parmesan and enjoy!