Chicken and Wild Garlic Risotto. This quick-cooking, creamy risotto features chicken, carrots and peas enhanced with the flavor of mushrooms and roasted garlic. Risotto takes a lot of practice and patience to make right. Try this mouthwatering chicken and wild mushroom risotto recipe and taste the glorious results.
Just as perfect for weeknight meals as it is for dinner parties.
Start by sautéing onion and garlic in a splash of olive oil (you can add butter too) until soft and translucent.
Add short-grain risotto rice and stir to coat in.
You can have Chicken and Wild Garlic Risotto using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chicken and Wild Garlic Risotto
- You need 50 g of Chrorizo, Diced (7 syns).
- You need 2 of Chicken Breasts, Diced.
- It's 1 of Onion Diced.
- Prepare 1 of Roasted Red Pepper.
- It's 400 g of Risotto Rice.
- Prepare 1 litre of Chicken Stock.
- You need 100 g of Tomato Puree (about 6 tbsp).
- You need 1 tbsp of Paprika.
- Prepare Pinch of Saffron.
- It's of Wild Garlic.
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Chicken and Wild Garlic Risotto instructions
- Fry the diced chorizo until lightly browned and there is a thin layer of oil covering the wok/pan. Remove and set aside. If at any point the pan seems dry, add a few squirts of Frylight to oil..
- Fry off the diced chicken until lightly browned. Add to the Chorizo and set aside..
- Add the diced onion to the pan and fry until softened, add the roast pepper and stir for 30 seconds..
- Add the rice to the pan, mix to coat and stir for 30 seconds. At this point add the chicken stock to the pan..
- Add the tomato puree, paprika and saffron and stir to combine..
- Once the rice has started to swell, add the Chorizo and chicken back to the pan..
- Stir regularly and cook the rice to taste. Season to taste and serve with wild garlic. Finely chop the leaves and sprinkle on top, garnish with a head of flowers which is also edible. If wild garlic is not available, add a diced glove of garlic to the pan at step 3..
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