Recipe of the Week: FODMAP Friendly Winter Warming Vegetable Medley Risotto

Our Recipe of the Week:

FODMAP Friendly Winter Warming Vegetable Medley Risotto

The delicious, hearty comfort of risotto is tempting on a cold night. Especially because it’s so cold here in Melbourne!

There’s nothing like the nourishing comfort of a low FODMAP winter-warming risotto after a long, cold day.

Eat it while snuggled up with a blanket opposite the telly, heat then eat for lunch the day after, or enjoy as a snack any time of day.

Simply delicious and ever-so-simple to make. Now let’s get cooking!

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 1L FODMAPPED Slow Cooked Chicken Stock
• 1 ½ cups (320g) Arborio rice
• 25g butter
• 2 tbsp Cobram Estate Garlic Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 ½ cup (375ml) water
• 1 large zucchini
• 125g oyster mushroom
• 400g kent pumpkin
• 1 cup spinach
• ½ cup halved cherry tomatoes
• 30g (about 8) olives
• ¼ cup parmesan cheese
• ¼ wedge lemon and thyme to garnish
• 300g boiled and shredded chicken (optional)

Steps:

Vegetable Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 200C.
2. Cut zucchini and kent pumpkin into 1-2cm pieces.
3. Place kent pumpkin pieces onto lined baking tray and drizzle with garlic infused oil, bake for 20 minutes.
4. Add zucchini pieces with kent pumpkin and bake for another 10 minutes.

Stock Preparation

5. Pour water and FODMAPPED Slow Cooked Chicken Stock in saucepan, and bring to boil. Once boiling, reduce to simmer and cover.

Risotto Preparation

6. In another large saucepan, melt butter and 1 tbsp oil.
7. Add mushroom, spinach and cherry tomatoes to pan and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Add rice to pan.
9. Add 1 cup of stock and stir until rice and vegetables have completely absorbed the stock.
10. Once absorbed, continue to add stock 1 cup at a time.
11. Add baked zucchini and kent pumpkin to risotto with last cup of stock.
12. Stir in olives and parmesan cheese.
13. Garnish with lemon and thyme and serve.

FODMAP Friendly Certified products used:

FODMAPPED Slow Cooked Chicken Stock*

Cobram Estate Garlic Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil*

*Available at leading Australian supermarkets nation-wide.

Eat with Confidence