Healthy rice recipe for 4 people, takes only 40 mins; recipe has onion, olive oil, butter, streaky bacon, risotto rice, vegetable stock, frozen pea and parmesan.
Easy risotto with bacon & peas
Course: Healthy rice
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
5 mins
Ingredients
- Onion: 1 onion
- Olive Oil: 2 tbsp olive oil
- Butter: knob of butter
- Streaky Bacon: 6 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
- Risotto Rice: 300g risotto rice
- Vegetable Stock: 1l hot vegetable stock
- Frozen Pea: 100g frozen peas
- Parmesan: freshly grated parmesan, to serve
Directions
- Finely chop 1 onion. Heat 2 tbsp olive oil and a knob of butter in apan, add the onions and fry until lightly browned (about 7 minutes).
- Add 6 chopped rashers streaky bacon and fry for a further 5 minutes, until it starts to crisp.
- Add 300g risotto rice and 1l hot vegetable stock, and bring to the boil. Stir well, then reduce the heat and cook, covered, for 15-20 minutes until the rice is almost tender.
- Stir in 100g frozen peas, add a little salt and pepper and cook for a further 3 minutes, until the peas are cooked.
- Serve sprinkled with freshlygratedparmesan and freshly ground black pepper.
