Gather your mis en place; get together all of the equipment needed for the recipe and gather your ingredients.

Dice butter into 1 cm cubes.

Cut shallot from root to tip, and peel off the outer skin. Slice the shallot from tip to root, along the grain of the shallot, and then Food cut into small blocks or squares. Make sure they are all roughly the same size!dice finely.

Peel pumpkin, scoop out the seeds, and Food cut into small blocks or squares. Make sure they are all roughly the same size!dice into 1 cm cubes.

Grate parmesan cheese.

Remove sage leaves from stem and chop finely.

Remove thyme leaves from stem and chop finely.

Measure ricotta and pumpkin To blend, grind or mash food until it is a thick, smooth, lump-free consistency.puree into a bowl, and add a small pinch of nutmeg.

Measure vegetable stock into pot and heat over medium heat until simmering.

Turn the heat to medium and add a couple tablespoons of olive oil. Cook the shallots, stirring frequently until translucent, about 2 minutes.

Add the pumpkin and continue to cook over medium heat until the pumpkin begins to soften, about 5 minutes.

Add in the rice, sage, and thyme, and cook until the rice is translucent.

Add a couple ladles of stock to the pan, and stir the rice gently, to make sure that no ingredients are above the liquid.

As the stock is absorbed, continue adding about a ladleful of hot stock at a time, stirring once each time.

Keep adding stock until rice is Pasta that is just perfectly cooked. Not hard, not mushy- perfetto!al dente (just about cooked). Add one more addition of stock and cook until absorbed.

When stock is almost absorbed, stir through the butter, parmigiano reggiano, and Adding flavour to a food to enhance its taste. It can be as simple as salt and pepper or herbs, spices vinegars and condimentsseason with salt and pepper to taste.

Mix together pumpkin To blend, grind or mash food until it is a thick, smooth, lump-free consistency.puree and ricotta and Adding flavour to a food to enhance its taste. It can be as simple as salt and pepper or herbs, spices vinegars and condimentsseason with salt to taste. Dot the ricotta pumpkin mixture on top of the risotto.