Start by part cooking your vegetables by adding the olive oil to a heavy bottom pan and half of the chopped shallot. Once the shallot softened, add in order the asparagus, ham and peas. Cooke them for about 10 minutes until they still have a bite to it. These will be added back in the risotto for the final step. Once these are cooked, place them in a dish to use later.

For the risotto, add to the same pan the butter and the shallot. Once this has softened, add your rice and let toast for a couple of minutes. If you are using the white wine, add it now and let the alcohol steam. Add your vegetable stock about 100ml at the time and continue to do so, but only when the previous stock has been absorbed, until you have about 100ml left.

At this point add your previously cooked vegetable and ham, stir and add the final 100ml of stock. Check that the rice is cooked, al dente, and turn the heat off. Proceed to mantecare the risotto, by adding your 10g butter and 25g grated parmesan. Fold and serve with adding fresh mint to the dish.