Inauthentic risotto

Risotto without cheese?  I would not have been game for that in my pre allergy life.  Although, I suppose many fish and seafood risotto dishes do not contain cheese so it would be possible to pass off a dairy free risotto as an authentic one.


Is it just 'savoury rice'?  Or more akin to a paella or a jambalaya?  Anyway, risotto in our house is a good foil for using up leftover roast chicken, it's cheap, quick and loved by three of us, tolerated by the other.  I made ours with leek, courgette and peas and this week, the extremely untraditional sweetcorn ... at the request of one boy.  I really don't miss the lack of cheese now ... who would have thought it?