Sunday, 21 April 2013

Chicken and prawn risotto with mushrooms and rocket


I bought some chicken fillets cheaply (5 large fillets for £5) and then bought some reduced prawns and reduced rocket.  Clearly, a risotto was crying out to be made.

Ingredients:
2 chicken fillets (£2)
approx 275g arborio rice (about a £1.  Stock cupboard.)
Prawns (reduced to 49p)
Rocket (reduced from 99p to 49p)
Leeks
Mushrooms (approx 50p)
White wine 
Chicken/vegetable stock (about a pint/500ml)
Lemon

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Cut the chicken into pieces and fry in oil until browned a little and cooked.

In another pan, fry chopped leeks with a little garlic and the mushrooms.  Add a glass of white wine and reduce.  Make up the stock.  

Add the rice and stir through the vegetables until translucent.  Then proceed to add the stock, half a cup at a time, stirring as much as you can.  When most of the stock has been added and the rice is on it's way to being cooked, add the chicken pieces and the prawns (they were cooked).

When the rice is cooked (you may need to add less stock than you made, or a little more water), squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the risotto, stir through some rocket and twist some black pepper to taste.

Serve, with more lemon to squeeze.

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