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Spring Risotto in Thermomix

📍 Italy
⏱️Prep: 10 min
🔥Cook: 30 min
Total: 40 min
🍽️4 servings
Difficulty: Easy

Spring risotto is the freshest version of Italy's most beloved rice dish: carnaroli rice cooked with ladles of warm stock, finished with seasonal asparagus, peas and courgette. The Thermomix takes over the constant stirring. Butter beaten in off the heat and a generous handful of Parmesan give it the signature creamy finish.

🛒 Ingredients

4 servings
  • 320g carnaroli rice
  • 150ml white wine
  • 1 liter hot vegetable stock
  • 1 onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • Asparagus, peas, zucchini
  • 60g cold butter
  • 80g Parmesan
  • Salt, pepper

👨‍🍳 Step-by-step instructions

  1. Chop onion and garlic: 5 sec, speed 5. Sauté 3 min, 120°C, speed 1.

  2. Add rice: toast 2 min, 120°C, speed 1.

  3. Add white wine: simmer 2 min, 100°C, speed 1 to evaporate.

  4. Add hot stock. Set 15 min, 100°C, speed 1, reverse direction.

  5. In the last 3 min, add vegetables through the lid opening.

  6. Turn off. Mix in cold butter and Parmesan with a spatula.

💡 Chef's tip

The Thermomix risotto trick: always use reverse rotation to avoid breaking the rice grains, and perform the final mantecato — butter and Parmesan — with the machine switched off. Stir by hand for those final 30 seconds.

📝 Our take

Thermomix risotto frees the cook from 25 minutes of constant stirring. The result is not identical to the traditional version — reverse rotation is not the same as manual movement — but the difference is smaller than it seems and the convenience is total. The final mantecato with butter and Parmesan off the heat is the step that cannot be skipped.

🍷 Wine & food pairing

Italian white wine — a northern Pinot Grigio or a Soave Classico. For a spring vegetable risotto, a fresh, mineral white is always the right choice.

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