(Mushrooms risotto - Our recipe)

Time: preparation: 15 minutes ........ cooking: 20 minutes 2 medium size Boletus edulis mushrooms     or cultivated ones 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons dried chives 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely     chopped (or 2 teaspoons dried one) 1 teaspoon dried bay leaf 100 ml (4 fl oz - 1/2 C) white dry wine 700 ml (25 fl oz - 3C) vegetable stock 200 g (7 oz) Italian arborio rice Parmesan, if you like Medium difficulty

  Spoon measures are American spoons, that is standard cook's measuring spoons used in USA.
  The best plan is to regard 2 American teaspoons or tablespoons as 1 English teaspoon or tablespoon (eating spoons)

Clean the mushrooms removing any lumps of earth and other impurities with the tip of a knife blade. Brush off grit and dirt with a toothbrush. Do not rinse them with running water; you could loose their delicate taste! Moisten some absorbent kitchen paper and clean them accurately. Slide them lengthways.
Put them in a saucepan with olive oil, herbs and some water. Simmer over a low flame until the water is well reduced.
Meanwhile prepare the vegetable stock and keep it over a weak flame so that it is not cold when the moment comes for its addition.
Add rice and cook for 3-4 minutes until it looks milky. Add wine, and simmer until absorbed, stirring. At this point add 2 ladlefuls of vegetable stock and simmer until absorbed, stirring. Keep on adding stock, ladle by ladle, until rice is tender.
Shortly before the end of cooking time, whip in grated Parmesan, if you like.
Serve after 5 minutes.

Note
- You can also use frozen mushrooms or dried ones. You have to cook them in the same
  way of fresh ones. The dried mushrooms must be soaked.
- The white dry wine can be substituted with a sherry glass of "Marsala" (kind of Sicilian
  wine) or "Mirto" (kind of Sardinian liqueur). Above all we suggest you this substitution
  in the case of cultivated mushrooms.
- You can also add saffron during the cooking, if you like it.

What's the right wine?
Monferrato chiaretto: a wine from Piedmont - Italy.

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