Vegetable Risotto

Simple Vegetable Risotto

Its friday night and I need to use up ingredients, what do i do? Make a risotto! I've been going through risotto phase recently, mainly because its super easy to make and you can throw in pretty much anything! I finally got to use up the rest of my frozen peas too!

Basket:
75g of Arborio Rice
Half Red Pepper
4 Asparagus Spears
Half an Onion/small onion
Vegetable stock cube
Handful of frozen peas
Boiled Water
Vegan Margarine/olive oil

Step by step instructions...

1. Dice your onion

2. Lightly fry the onion/red pepper in the butter or olive oil. Then add your rice into the pan and stir to ensure rice grains are thoroughly coated.




3. Meanwhile lightly fry your asparagus.


4. Make up about 250ml of vegetable stock with boiling water and stock cube.


5. Gradually add a ladel or two of the stock to your pan of rice and keep stiring

6. Stir

7. Add more stock

8. Stir

9. Keep repeating until the rice keeps absorbing the liquid

10. Add in your veg and frozen peas and season

11. Continue to stir until all the rice has swelled up. It should be just still al dente - ie a slight bite.

12. Serve :)

"Proper" risotto uses butter to fry the onion, it also adds garlic and probably some white wine. But this is your kitchen so do it your way!

The whole process takes less than 20 minutes