Grandpa’s Secret Pumpkin Risotto Recipe!

Today we’re making Pumpkin Risotto, a creamy, comforting Italian classic that’s perfect for fall or any time you crave something rich and velvety. Arborio rice is slowly cooked with white wine, broth, and pumpkin purée, then finished with butter, parmesan, and fresh herbs for the ultimate comfort meal.

This risotto is smooth, savory, and just slightly sweet from the pumpkin — a perfect balance of flavors that feels like a warm hug in every bite.

Filmed live on October 21st 2025.

Hello everybody. Tonight we make a pumpkin rotto. I got over here already. I soft them up a little bit. Take a little time to cook. And now what I do, I load the gas and I put this on the side like this. Okay. And now what I do, I put a little oil over here. It’s enough. And we warm up now. This oil got the rice go here. Let’s warm up the oil a little bit. We got to saute the rice. Ario rice. Rotto with a pumpkin. Oh, night’s time pumpkin. Okay, now this. Okay, now the rice. What I do? I wash a little bit with a cold water. Okay, take all the stuff out. It’s really good. Do like this. And we put the rice not right over here. I got a good spoon to help me take all the rice out. Okay. And now we got to cook a little bit of the rice. Look here. Oh yeah, baby. I look good. Michelle Cook sent you 500 stars with the bunny ears. Oh, thank you very much for the pumpkin. I I was called my wife. She said, “No, no, say like this. You got to say pumpkin.” I say, “Pumpkin.” He said, “No pumpkin.” Hey, I go. Okay. Now, look how beautiful this rice. [Music] And thanks to Shawn Morris. Thank you. Thank you to everybody the look of this video and thank you for the star and for the people on Tik Tok. Thanks for all the gifts there as well. Thank you so much and thank you very much of Tik Tok. Okay, I got the chicken stock over there. After everybody know you got to use the chicken stock, the cooked rice, the rotto. Okay, now the rotto. What you need? You need a little wine. And let’s put white wine dry. [Music] Oh, nice. Smell good. If you want to after you’re done turning that, if you want to just show the pumpkin that you carved out over there. Yes. Okay. Now, this turn. This is the one I was use. I use F this. This it’s a four pound. I was use F two pound. And look how be. But it’s so hard to take the skin out. Oo. So for those that are carving your pumpkins, don’t throw the meat out. You can make a good risoto with it. Yeah. Look at that. Everybody after the this Halloween, everybody you see pumpkin on the street, everybody throw away. But it’s good. They make like you cook, you make a blend and you eat, you drink with a nice toast bread. Oh, it’s so good. All right. Now we mix everything together. The rice and the pumpkin. Okay. Now this you got to cook everything together. Oh, he look good in that, right? And you want to just explain what was in uh the pot before the pumpkin. Okay. You got a pumpkin and we put a I cook a shallot. I saute the shallot with oil. I cook the shallot a little bit after I put the pumpkin and I cook like maybe the 10 minute like this is soften them up. And now we put it together with the rice and we got to make ratoto. And now like I say we got to start use the chicken stock. And this is the chicken stock. You got to put a little bit at a time. Not everything at one time. Okay. And we leave like this. And now this it got to cook really really low. And we put in a little black pepper. Okay. We got the flake pepper hot and we use little salt but not too much salt. Got the chicken stock. It’s salty. Only like this. But after we taste I got to put the cheese and the pegorino cheese. It’s salty too. Okay, now we need them more. All right. Smells good. Look good, huh? Mhm. Nice. And thank you to Patricia and Dolores for the stars. Thank you very much. Thank you for the star to everybody. Oh yes, Barbara, this is live now. Yes, it’s me. I’m alive. We go live. Sports. Uh I think intern integrity sent you some goats. Goat. again. You think you’re going to use all of that? Well, we got to see. I got I got to taste. Okay. Rachel sent you a Oh, yeah baby on Tik Tok. Oh yeah, baby. You going to make anything on the side too? I got to make a chicken milanes. Okay. Now, what I got to do, I want to taste them. Hey Barbara, thank you so much for the stars. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you everybody. And Jess, too. Got to cook with the rice. Somebody said you should put some sausage in it. Yeah, make a sausage. What about hot dog? Hot dog would be good, too, right? Yeah. He already put wine in it. Yes, I poured the wine. Dante wants to know if you’re really live. Salute. I’m live. I salute. Yes. It’s live. It’s live. And Monday we cook six story for the support live. And Tuesday we supposed to call cook tonight six story but we did but maybe 10 after 6. It’s live too. Okay. Every Monday, Tuesday it’s live. A lot of time we do extra one. It’s life too. Oh, sinner. You can find the ricotta donuts uh recipe on his website if you want to check that out. I can’t really put a link here though. The only thing the result when you make you got to stay on the top make a shoe turn turn. See you not turn is stick. It’s not good. And they make a shoe. See you need more chicken stock. They use a little bit at a time. Okay. After what happened? It’s a cook. You put too much after come in broad. That’s arboreio rice, right? Yes. It’s arboreio. And just a quick update uh for those watching on Tik Tok. This is his real cooking page on Tik Tok. Tik Tok will not verify this page. And there are fake ones on Tik Tok that steal our videos and make money off them. So, if you could avoid them and not comment on them and also um report them, that would be awesome. Again, this is the real page obviously cuz we’re live right now and a fake page can’t do that. Look good. Yes. Yep. Okay. Let’s see now. Taste it again. Okay. Let’s just say yeah. Where are you from in in Italy? You me or me? Oh yeah. I’m a south of south Italy for I’m pul everybody know I’m close the uh you know a lot of people they go see I’m close over there that place the patriio. Thanks Debbie for the stars. Thank you. Thank you for the start of the everybody. Thanks so much. Thank you for all the gifts over on Tik Tok. Appreciate that. Tick tock. So, how will you be making the chicken melan? Well, chicken melan it’s easy to make. You know, I I got the chicken breasted chicken. You put flour, eggs, a breadcrumb. And I like to cook a little bit oil, a little butter. And this it come out really, really good. Somebody said Neopad is from Campobaso. Baso. Okay, now we need more chicken stock. I think now maybe maybe it’s enough. Thank you, Bill, Leslie, and Mike for the stars. Nice to see you guys here. Yeah. Thank you very much, Bill. They come look this video tonight. I look you less than I too. It’s really nice. Everybody I got a lot of support and never miss on Tuesday when I cook. It make me happy. I got somebody for the support. How many years? I got to build it. It’s a number one thing. Somebody else together. It’s looking uh thicker. Yeah, it’s good. Look at this. Beautiful. Huh? We got a full house over on Facebook tonight. Wow. I think I got an offer for me this tonight. Is that enough? Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Somebody said they love your cooking for many years. And I love your t-shirt. Oh yeah, baby. Nice. I think it’s a little spice. The little flake of pepper. Boy. Really? Uh-oh. You still have more hot peppers I could eat? Oh, that one. Hey, I got to go pick up outside. The skinny one, right? Yeah. Yeah, I got them. What are you cooking? It’s a roto pumpkin rotto. Oh, I forgot to say something. I was go to store today. It was a kids for the I don’t know maybe the college. It was about six or seven kids of I think a college. And one of the boys say, “Hey, look, he’s over here. He’s on Tik Tok.” I say, “Yeah, I’m a tic tac toe.” Yeah. Yeah. Why? A lot of kids look on Tik Tok. There’s a few people. There’s more on Tik Tok tonight than Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what he told me. He said, “Oh, I was go by the pumpkin and this he was over there and he said, “Oh, he was out.” He said, “Hey, look over here. Tick tock.” What tic tac? Thank you, Joanie, for the stars. And she says, “God bless you all.” Thank you very much. Thank you. Also, thanks to Lena. Lena. Lena. Nice name, Lena. Okay, I want to taste it. You know, I got to put the rest of the stuff for the cookies. Joanie, he’s making pumpkin risoto. Oh, D. You know why? Let’s start. Put a little butter. Butter is healthy, right? You got to use a lot. Okay. And now we give it a nice You see, you got to watch your nugget. Thank you so much, Paula. That that means a lot. Thank you. Oh, Lena is short for Carmelina. Carmelina. Oh, nice. Carmelin my in Italy Sara. It was La Carmelina. La Carmelina. Maria Anina. Anina. March. How many cups of risoto? Bill’s asking. Uh, this is four 4 and 1/2 cup. It’s no up. And thank you, Monica, for the stars. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have a written recipe for this? No. Look, it’s a nice nice creoso. There’s a different risoto. I mean, it’s nice creamy. Well, that’s without cheese yet. No. Where the one I put the cheese? You see that? What would you all think if he used plant-based cheese? Plant? Not the plant. They make a cheese. They They had plant meat, too. Are you crazy? We got to make it one day. You want to try it? Do what? Plant meat. Plant meat? I got a lot of plant outside. I’ll take the skin. How I cook? What do you eat? You got to eat the tree now. Tree burgers. Okay. Now, pecorino. Peorino. Romano. Thank you, Azul. Everyone’s saying no. No plant meat. Looking great. Smells good. What do you guys rate this so far? One out of 10. Got to be very hands-on with this recipe, right? You think it can sauté this? Try it. Thank you, Dominic, for the stars. Thank you very much for the star. Never saute this. Is thick on the parts? Okay. Look how beautiful. Hh. Look at that. Hh. Mhm. Okay. We want to put over here. Sure. Okay. I I needed the the the the heat. The heater. Yeah, they get the heater. I need the heater. What do you all think about some pumpkin seeds on top? We just didn’t have time to toast them. All right. Look at that. Look how beautiful. Huh? The color. It’s nice. Everything. Where’s my Oh, my dish. It’s right over here. Okay, now we put the palm. I want I want to taste. It’s too hard. Okay, now nice. And see you want a little bit more egg and you put it right on the top. Yeah. Really delicious. The pumpkin it come out really good and the rice and the cheese on the top. It’s delicious. I hope somebody make a liino the way I make you do the same. Believe me, it come out good. Thank you very much everybody and thank you for your support and thank you for the star and thank you to everybody on Tuesday like I say six story or six it make me very happy now it’s a time for me you know everybody say pasqual you know I’m happy I don’t look at my age my age it’s not feel good I take a walk every single day and still I work outside and I feel good and like this everybody the my age I hope everybody do the same like I told a lot of friend my no big couch potato but a lot of people like the beater and I like be more no potato sour potato a planted potato Okay, thank you very much again and we see next week. Thank you. And um he’s making chicken bananas on the side. So we’ll post that in the stories if you want to watch. Thank you. Thank you very much.