Sweet Potato Risotto

A cheap, yet indulgent and creamy dish, works well with butternut squash too.

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Ingredients

Instructions

Step 1:

  • It is easiest to start roasting the sweet potato chunks whilst cooking the risotto, put in the oven at 200 degrees coated in a little oil. It takes about twenty minutes for these to cook.

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  • Heat some oil in a pan add a little paprika, add the onion and fry.

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  • Add the risotto rice, stir continuously until rice is coated in the oil and is tinged red.

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  • Add the pressed garlic and stir.

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  • Add the wine about ½ a glass will do ? Enjoy the rest and keep on stirring whilst the wine bubbles away, once bubbled away reduce the heat a little.

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  • Add a small spalsh of vegetable stock and stir – once soaked up by the rice pour in a little more ? KEEP STIRRING!!! You may need to remove the Sweet potato from the oven at this point so it is okay to stop stirring for a while.

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  • Every time the rice absorbs the water add a splash more. Keep cooking until stock is gone (You may need a little more stock).

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  • The rice should be soft and not really chewy.

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  • Add the sweet potato now, make sure it is warm through and turn off the heat.

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  • Add the grated parmesan, black pepper, chilli powder and lemon juice and stir in.

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  • Et Bon Appetite!!! Enjoy with a chilled glas or two of wine 😀 .

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  • ** For something a little meaty add 100g chorizo at the point where we add the paprika. **