chicken risotto

Serves 4

Ingredients

500g chicken tenderloins, chopped into bite-size pieces

olive oil

celtic sea salt + cracked black pepper

onion, diced

2 garlic cloves, crushed

2 cups arborio rice

500ml chicken stock

1 cup hot water

tin of diced tomato

1 cup sliced green beans

2 tablespoons basil leaves, sliced

Method

1. Cook chicken in rice cooker with oil and seasoning. Remove and place in a separate bowl
2. Cook onion and garlic in rice cooker. Add additional oil if necessary
3. Add rice and toss to coat with oil
4. Add stock, water and tomato. Stir and cover with lid
5. When most of the liquid is absorbed (but before the rice cooker turns itself off) add beans and stir through
6. When the rice cooker turns itself off stir through chicken and basil leaves

Notes
If you don't have a rice cooker, the same method can be used on a cooktop or in the oven. If you don't have fresh green beans, frozen green beans work just as well, or even peas. Feel free to grate fresh parmesan cheese if you aren't avoiding dairy.

pumpkin + fish risotto

Serves 5

Poppy cooks...

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC.
   
   
2. Dice
   butternut pumpkin into 1cm squares, place in a baking tray and coat with
   olive oil and bake until the pumpkin starts to get a little colour.
   
   
3. In the meantime, heat
   3 tablespoons coconut oil in a cast iron casserole dish.
   
   
4. Add
   onion, diced and
   2 cups arborio rice, tossing to coat in coconut oil.
   
   
5. Add
   5 cups filtered water and
   2 teaspoons celtic sea salt.
   
   
6. Once half the liquid has been absorbed by the rice, stir through
   6 mushrooms, sliced,
   handful spinach, sliced,
   2 white fish fillets, chopped.
   
   
7. Occasionally stir the risotto, and when all the liquid is absorbed, add
   3 tablespoons parsley, chopped and roasted pumpkin.
   
   
8. Serve risotto into bowls topped with a sprinkle of 
   chia seeds,
   crispy bacon and
   parmesan cheese.