Recipe
Share the Love With This Valentine's Day Heart Beet Risotto
Valentine’s Day may be cleverly disguised as an exclusive holiday for couples, but it’s really every foodie’s favorite opportunity to eat as much pink-colored food as possible. Whether you decide to cook for a special someone or to cook for yourself, you can’t go wrong celebrating a cheesy holiday with a cheesy recipe. The ooey-gooey beet risotto is studded with bites of bright red beets, which infuse the dish with their lovely hue. Roasting the beets first takes a bit longer than boiling them, but it gives them a much sweeter, more complex flavor. Besides being packed with vitamin C, folate and manganese, beets are also known to be a natural aphrodisiac, making them must for any Valentine’s Day menu.
No matter who you may be making this beet risotto for, cooking a meal from scratch is an act of love in itself, and especially when it requires this much stirring.
Beet your heart out!
Heart Beet Risotto
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Total Time: 1 hr
- Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 3 peeled beets
- 1 cup rice arborio is the best but short grain brown rice also works
- 1 small yellow onion chopped
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- Coconut or olive oil
- 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter