Roasted pumpkin and kale risotto
Serves: 4 people
Prep: 30 mins
Make this delicious and healthy risotto as a mid-week meal using roasted pumpkin (or squash) and any green vegetable that you like (we used kale here). Our bouillon is a key ingredient for this dish.
Recipe tip: Roast the full pumpkin/squash and save the other half for another recipe/risotto. Freeze it in an airtight container up to 1 month. Make sure you defrost it thoroughly before using it.
What you’ll need:
1 litre of our Marigold Organic Less Salt Veg Bouillon (any other from our range will do)
½ small pumpkin (or butternut squash), sliced in wedges, skin on, roasted (see our tip above to save time and money) and then cubed
Handful of kale, finely sliced
1 small shallot or ½ white onion, finely chopped
2 sticks of celery, trimmed and finely chopped
2 sprigs of thyme (or 1 spoonful of chopped sage leaves)
30 ml olive oil
300 g Arborio risotto rice
100 ml of dry white wine (optional)
1 tbsp of butter (or vegan alternative)
How to do it:
Warm the olive oil in a high-sided pan on a low heat. Add the chopped onion, celery and thyme sprigs. Cook slowly and stir frequently. Add the rice and turn up the heat. Keep stirring until the rice becomes translucent, do not let it catch on the base of the pan. Add the wine, if using, until it has evaporated.
In another pan, make the vegetable stock using our bouillon powder. Keep the stock boiling on a low heat. One ladle at the time, add the stock to the rice. Stir after each ladleful and wait until it has been fully absorbed before adding the next. Turn down the heat so that the rice doesn’t cook too quickly.
Add the kale halfway through and the pumpkin/butternut squash cubed just before the last ladle of stock. The consistency needs to be oozy, so don’t overcook it. Taste the rice, add salt and pepper if you like. The rice is ready when it has a tiny bit of bite to it. Put the lid on, add the butter (or vegan alternative) and let the risotto rest for 2 minutes.
Serve immediately - risotto doesn’t like to wait 😊 - sprinkled with our Engevita Nutritional Yeast Flakes (any will do 😉).
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