Ingredients for 4 people

300 g of Carnaroli rice Mulino Marello

half a purple cabbage

extra virgin olive oil to taste

Procedure

Thinly slice the purple cabbage and pour it into the pot together with the rice. Add about a generous liter of boiling salted water and cook until absorbed.

If you think it is useful, add more hot water. It takes about 15-20 minutes. Once you have reached the desired cooking time, turn off the heat, pour in some extra virgin olive oil and serve.

Decorate if desired with raw purple cabbage and seeds such as chia seeds or sesame.

Curiosity

Risotto is a very popular, typically Italian dish, which deserves to be prepared more often, not just on holidays, as we often tend to do.

We can make a tasty risotto with just 2 ingredients, as I suggest in today's recipe.

You don't need broth, not even butter or parmesan, just good quality rice, like Carnaroli Mulino Marello and a vegetable that we want to make the protagonist of our dish.

All this makes the creation of risotto even easier and faster, but above all, it allows us to obtain a light and digestible first course. There are no dairy products, there is no fried food, not even cooked oil. All simple and natural, so as to enhance the full and delicate flavor of Carnaroli rice, and the particular flavor of purple cabbage.

Our risotto can always become new and my invitation, in fact, is to go beyond the usual condiments such as asparagus, peas, porcini mushrooms, saffron, pumpkin and radicchio, just to stay vegetable-based and experiment with new proposals.

I wanted to try it purple cabbage, a vegetable rich in antioxidants that gives our risotto an intense and unexpected colour. Purple cabbage, compared to cauliflower and bush, in my opinion has a more delicate and less "cabbage" flavor and the result is a very pleasant risotto on the palate.

I remember that purple cabbage is rich in fibre, contains minerals such as iron, calcium, potassium, vitamin K and folic acid.

An idea, this risotto, also to experiment with a different vegetable than usual, which perhaps you are not used to consuming. And, if you like it, try it raw in a salad, perhaps with rocket, orange slices and walnuts, truly delicious as well as healthy!

Recipe by Doctor Isabella Vendrame, food coach psychologist, www.isabellavendrame.com