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Pea and Sundried Tomato
A delicious vegan risotto. Easier to make than you think? Add parmesan if not vegan
Ingredients
- 400 g rice
- 900 g peas frozen
- 80 g sundried tomatoes cut into thin strips, approx 3 mm wide
- 160 g onion diced
- 65 ml oil from your jar of sun-dried tomatoes
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- vegetable stock made by dissolving 1 teaspoon yeast extract in hot water (you will need approximately 1 litre of stock).
- salt and pepper
- ½ tsp mustard powder
- 1 dessertspoon balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Start off by frying onion in the oil until golden brown, then add garlic
- Add the rice and stir well to coat each grain of rice in the seasoned oil.
- Gradually add vegetable stock as you stir, until the rice is cooked and swimming in a thick glossy oniony sauce, this will take approximately 20 minutes.
- Then add the sun-dried tomatoes cut into thin strips, approx 3 mm wide.
- Add peas, then mustard, and balsamic vinegar.
- Serve after just a minute, any more and the peas will overcook and lose their fresh sweetness.
- Add a little salt and black pepper to taste and drizzle some of your oil over the top if you like it to look like a Jamie Oliver recipe!
- The consistency needs to be quite wet, much more like a sloppy risotto than a biryani.
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