As you will have already guessed by now, I love quick and easy meals to serve up for dinner. I have already shared some of my family favourite recipes with you, carry on to the end of the post to see them. now I am sharing another quick and easy dinner my easy chicken risotto recipe.
I love risotto, but always found it boring standing ladling in the stock in one or two spoonfuls. If you like risotto you will love this recipe. I actually got the recipe from the BBC food website a long time ago.
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Ingredients
2 tbsp of oil
1 onion, cut in half, coarsely grated
2 garlic cloves, grated
250g risotto rice
100ml white wine or water
1 litre/1¾ pints chicken stock cube, made with 1 stock cube
250g cooked leftover chicken, skin removed, cut into small pieces
75g hard Italian-style cheese, finely grated
25g butter
freshly ground black pepper
Method
Step 1
boil the kettle and make up chicken stock, made up with 1 stock cube
If using raw chicken cook off and put to one side
Step 2
heat the oil in a pan and add onion and garlic – for quickness I use a handful of frozen diced onion and a spoon of lazy garlic
Step 3
Add the risotto rice and stir and coat with the remaining oil and onion and garlic
Add half of the wine or water and mix
Step 4
Pour in the stock and simmer and stir frequently until most of the stock has absorbed and you are getting a creamy consistency
Step 5
Add the chicken, rest of the wine and black pepper to taste and add salt if needed. We have found that by using one stock cube we need to add a little bit of salt
Step 6
Once the required consistency add the butter and grated cheese, stir and remove from the heat
You can add peas as well, but my family all moaned at me for doing this so I tend to not add them now.
This would work exactly the same for making a mushroom risotto.
Also great for popping in the microwave for a tasty lunch the next day.
Have you seen my other quick and easy meals
If you have some family favourite recipes you would like to share, I would love to try and feature them.
This does sound wonderful. I am definitely going to bookmark this recipe and I shall be trying it next week.
I love risotto but always very hit and miss when I tried to make it, but this is fail proof and comes out great every time
I’ve recently won a bag of risotto rice and although I love risotto, I have never made it myself so I was happy to stumble on this so I can try and make it at home now. Just need to get myself some parmesan.
This recipe is so easy and works every time.
Love risotto!
So do I and this is such an easy fool proof recipe that takes no time to make
Thanks for this recipe x
Oh yum!! I absolutely love risotto, I’ve never tried making it with meat so a chicken one sounds a lovely change
I love risotto and it is so easy to make, I love to make it with chicken as easier as all my family like it
So easy I could probably manage to cook it!
Honestly it is such an easy recipe and never goes wrong
I have only made mushroom risotto before so would love to try making this chicken risotto recipe
I hope you enjoy it, I had some left over and my Mum tried it and loved it
Looks like a winning recipe to me! My children will love this dish. I like that it is so easy to make too!
It is the easiest risotto recipe I have ever tried and so far have never had a fail
I don’t actually think I’ve ever made risotto myself, but it’s actually such an easy thing to make so I might have to give it a go x
I have tried various recipes over the years, but this is the easiest one I have made and it has never let me down or gone wrong
Oh yum yum! I have never had risotto before, so would love to give your recipe a try 😍I love easy to make recipes, too😛❤️
This is such an easy recipe to make, Ihope you try it and enjoy it
This recipe sounds delicious, I absolutely love risotto but I am just rubbish at making it myself!
This recipe is so easy and you cant go wrong with it
I really enjoy chicken risotto but haven’t made it in ages, so you have inspired me now! I like putting peas in mine and cut up peppers
I ended up making this for dinner last night and took no time at all to make. It is easier to keep it simple and just have the chicken as my family are so fussy and I would end up making a different version for each one of them
Easy and delicious – yes please
It is such a quick and easy meal to make, we ended up having it last night