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Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto

Sweet Red Pepper & Goat’s Cheese Risotto


  • Author: caroline
  • Total Time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 1 1x

Description

A simple, vegetarian and easy risotto recipe with sweet red pepper combined with creamy goat’s cheese. Flavoured with rich thyme, this is a perfect and delicious mid week meal. 


Ingredients

Scale

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Ingredients

  • 1 tsp olive oil or light cooking spray
  • 1/2 onion, diced (around 60 g)
  • 1 red pepper, diced into chunky sticks (around 85 g)
  • 100g risotto rice
  • 2 sprigs thyme, leaves stripped, plus extra for garnish
  • 50ml dry white wine
  • 250ml vegetable stock
  • 50g baby asparagus, ends ‘clicked’ off
  • 50g goat’s cheese

Instructions

1. Heat a little olive oil or some light cooking spray over a medium high heat in a large frying pan. Add the onion and pepper and cook for 5 minutes until softened.

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Step 1

2. Add the rice and thyme and cook over the heat for 1 minute.

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Step 2

3. Add the wine and 1 ladle of the stock. Reduce the heat so the mixture is slowly simmering.

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Step 3

4. Once the liquid has been absorbed continue to add the rest of the stock – a ladleful at a time, waiting until each is absorbed before adding more. Cook for around 10 minutes and then add the asparagus.

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Step 4

5. Continue to cook for a further 10 minutes until the rice is al dente, then stir in 3/4 of the goat’s cheese.

Sweet Red Pepper Goat's Cheese Risotto Step 5

6. Plate the risotto and crumble over the remainder of the goat’s cheese. Top with a little extra thyme for garnish and serve – yum!

Notes

  1. If you don’t have any asparagus on hand you could substitute tender stem broccoli or green beans (for green beans, add a few minutes earlier than you would the asparagus)
  2. If you prefer you can substitute the wine for the equivalent extra vegetable stock. 
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1
  • Calories: 550
  • Fat: 14g
  • Carbohydrates: 90g
  • Protein: 17g

Keywords: risotto, italian, goats cheese, cheese, dinner, easy, rice