Squash Risotto Recipe - Ingredients and Directions on How to Make the Perfect Risotto

This squash risotto recipe is one of the best dishes in the history of time. Risotto is an Italian dish where rice is cooked in a broth using a specific technique. Cheese is often added towards the end of the process, although this recipe doesn't use cheese and it tastes absolutely incredible.

As such, it is a perfect recipe for vegans and vegetarians, and this recipe uses squash, which is incredible. Meat-eaters will love it, too. Risotto recipe ingredients area easy to find.

Squash Risotto Recipe Ingredients

• 3 cups water
• 2 cups squash, diced
• 1 tsp coconut oil (or olive oil)
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2-3 Tbsp fresh thyme (or 1 Tbsp dried)
• 1 cup short grain brown rice
• sea salt
• 1/2 cup warmed white wine
• black pepper
• optional: pumpkin seeds

Squash Risotto Recipe Directions

1. The risotto recipe ingredients are easy to put together. Start by boiling the squash in a pot. You can also steam it.
2. Heat the water in a pot and maintain it just below a boil.
3. Warm a third pot to medium (last pot, I promise) and add the oil and onion. Coat the onion in oil and cook it until it is translucent, but not browned.
4. If using dried thyme, add it now. Otherwise, the fresh thyme can wait until the very end of this whole process. Add the rice and stir to coat it in the oil. Pour in the wine and stir until it is all absorbed. Add 2 tsp sea salt. Add the heated water to the rice 1/2 cup at a time, stirring constantly until all the liquid is absorbed before adding more.
5. Use all 3 cups of water for a very creamy risotto, or only 2-2 1/2 cups for a sticky risotto.
6. When all the liquid is absorbed, the rice should be soft, but only just cooked (al dente). Then you can stir in the squash.
7. Garnish your squash risotto recipe with cracked black pepper and optionally roasted pumpkin seeds for the best meal ever.

About this Author

To watch a free video of me making this squash risotto recipe, so I can show you the exact techniques that will make the perfect risotto, go to http://www.healthyveganrecipes.net/video/squash-risotto

Heather Nauta is a registered holistic nutritionist who teaches you how to live a healthy vegan/vegetarian lifestyle, including how to get proper nutrition, enough protein, vitamin b12 and other minerals, and how to make an amazing variety of simple, fast healthy recipes that taste incredible for you and your family.

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