Perfect brown rice risotto with pumpkins
This perfect brown rice risotto with pumpkins is both nutritious, comforting, delicious and so satisfying. The nutritional yeast gives the cheesy taste add lemon to that to makes this risotto recipe absolutely perfect!
Servings: 4 people
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Cost: 5€
Equipment
- large hard-based pan or sauce-pan
Ingredients
- 2 cups short-grain rice
- 1 medium red onion/ 2 small ones
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 small piece of ginger
- 1 root of turmeric
- 2 tablespoon cold-pressed oil
- Pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 5 cups hot vegetable broth or boiling water
- 3 cups diced pumpkin, like acorn
- fresh thyme or herbs of your choice
- 5 tablespoon nutritional yeast as much you'd use if using some cheese
- ground black pepper
- 1 lemon
Instructions
- Rinse and soak your brown rice for at least 12 hrs, the longer the better
- 1 hr before cooking, drain and rinse your rice and leave it to drain all the water
- Grate the ginger, garlic, and turmeric
- Put them in a large pan, then add oil and stir. Cover and let them cook for 3 mins at medium-high heat.
- Add the ground turmeric, stir and add the drained rice with some of the thyme, stir well cover and let it cook for 5 mins for the rice to absorb the spices
- Add salt, then add 4 cups of the hot broth. Stir, cover, and bring the heat to moderate-high
- Simmer for 30 mins
- During that time chop the pumpkins keeping the skin into small equal sizes
- Dice the onions and keep aside, get the thyme leaves for garnishing
- After the 30 mins, add the pumpkins and the remaining cup of broth, it should be hot, stir and cover to cook for 10 mins
- The rice should remain firm, cut off the heat, add onions and cover for 10 mins
- Now add the pepper and thyme of which you'll have removed the stem
- Before serving, add nutritional yeast, squeeze the lemon and add the juice, adjust the seasoning and fold everything delicately
- Enjoy your perfect brown rice risotto, thank you for pinning and sharing. love you.
Notes
You might want to use long grain rice like basmati, just note that the texture will not be the same. Whole basmati rice cooks rather fast like in this pilau recipe, it' ll not give the creaminess like the short-grain rice.However, I do love basmati's more pronounced flavor.