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a plate with mushroom risotto with spinach, garnished with thyme and a fork on the side

Mushroom Risotto

AuthorRita
This mushroom risotto recipe is an excellent example of healthy comfort food! It's super creamy, delicious, easy to make, and a great weeknight dinner idea. There is a vegan option too!
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Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Servings4 servings

Ingredients  

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion chopped (120 g)
  • 4 garlic cloves minced
  • 5 cups mushrooms sliced or with different shapes (260 g)
  • 1/8 cup white wine 30 ml
  • 1 and 1/3 cups arborio rice 300 g
  • 5 cups vegetable broth 1.2 l
  • 5 cups baby spinach 100 g
  • 1/3 cup nutritional yeast or parmesan cheese 15 g
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • pepper to taste
  • grated vegan parmesan or parmesan cheese to garnish optional

Instructions 

  1. Heat a cooking pot over medium heat and drizzle the olive oil. When hot, saute the garlic and the onion for 2 minutes or until softened. 
  2.  Add the mushrooms and saute for 2 minutes.
  3. Next, add the wine and keep stirring for 1 minute or until the alcohol has evaporated.
  4. Add the arborio rice and mix with the other ingredients in the pot. 
  5. Next, reduce the heat and pour a small portion of warmed vegetable stock into the pot. Keep stirring. Add a small part of vegetable stock at a time until evaporated after each addition. Repeat this process until the rice is cooked and the risotto achieves a creamy consistency. Don't forget to keep stirring during this step. 
  6. Add the spinach leaves  5 minutes before adding the last amount of broth and combine with the risotto.
  7. Finally, add the parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper to taste and combine everything. Serve garnished with vegan parmesan or grated parmesan cheese.

Notes

Don't rinse the arborio rice before cooking! The starch is essential to make risotto dishes super thick and creamy, so make sure you don't do it. 
Using different types of mushrooms and cutting them into different shapes will add more texture to the dish.
Boil the vegetable stock right before using it, so everything cooks evenly.
If you add too much vegetable stock all at once, the rice will boil. Slowly add the broth to create a thick and creamy risotto.
White wine adds an extra flavor to this dish, and we suggest that you use it, but if you don't have it on hand, you can replace it with more vegetable broth.