Ham and zucchini risotto

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This recipe is very easy, unexpensive and the most important thing: very tasty.

Ingredients 4 servings

320 g short grain rice 

1000 ml  homemade broth

200 g onion

1 zucchini (about 400 g)

100 g York ham (about 4 slices)

Aged cheese, at your taste

Extra virgin olive oil

Salt

Parsley and some croutons for garnish

Optional

50 g butter

100 ml white wine

Directions

Chop finely the onion.

Peel zucchini and cut into small cubes.

Put the homemade broth in a saucepan and keep simmering.

In a large deep skillet add a good splash of extra virgin olive oil and stir fry onion. When onion is golden brown add the zucchini, a little salt and sauté for a few minutes.

Add after the rice and stir well until it looks transparent.

Pour now the white wine if you want to add it, and let it evaporate the alcohol before adding broth.

Add to the skillet two or three ladles of broth and stir well so rice release its starch.

 Lower to medium heat and add more broth as you see it is necessary (at the end rice should be almost dry), stirring occasionally.

If you don't have enough broth you can add a little water.

In the meantime  you can grate the cheese and cut the ham into small strips, set aside.

When rice is simmering around 15 minutes, taste it and add more salt if neccesary.  And be careful  rice doesn’t get overdone.

Remove from the heat when rice is ready. In case you want to put the butter is now the moment to add it and stir well to melt the butter.

Serve with ham and the grated aged cheese sprinkled over, garnish with some croutons, a little parsley and enjoy it!