Vegetables

Shallot

With care — Allowed by some hospitals and not others, or allowed only prepared a particular way.

A bowl of deep gold saffron risotto with a fine layer of melting Parmesan. — A photograph from Saffron risotto, one of the recipes that uses it.

How to prepare it

Treat it the same way as onion. Sweat it to melting, or leave it out.

Recipes using it

Saffron risotto

Sources

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — Dietary Fibre