Pea and Mint Risotto
by Sainsbury's
In this vibrant recipe, you blitz up the peas with parmesan and mint to make this super luxurious and green finish. Such an easy mid-week dinner to pull together and provides one of your 5-a-day. This recipe is part of Sainsbury's Feed Your Family For A Fiver campaign, a selection of recipes that have been designed to cost under £5 based on a family of 4 adults. Items subject to availability, excludes Locals. Prices valid for 3 weeks. Items per kg varies at checkout. Where items are in Aldi Price Match Sainsbury's reserve the right to substitute comparable items/remove recipes from promotion. Where whole packs are not used in recipe, full pack price is included in calculation. Calculation based on customers owning cooking oil. For more info on Aldi Price Match sainsburys.com/aldipricematch
Method
Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
Place a large saucepan of water on the hob, cook the peas for a few minutes until tender. Once the peas are cooked drain into a large sieve. Return the now empty saucepan to the hob and add the olive oil.
Step 2
Once the oil is hot add the Inspired to Cook diced onions and some salt and pepper and cook slowly until very soft and translucent. Meanwhile tip 2/3 of the cooked peas into a food processor along with most of the mint, all the parmesan and a glug of water. Blitz to form a thick puree and set aside.
Step 3
Once the onion is cooked through add the crushed garlic and cook out for a few minutes. Now add the risotto rice, stir to coat, and add a ladleful of stock. Cook the stock out, stirring often, and add another ladleful. Continue adding and reducing the stock, then once the risotto is almost cooked through add in the pea puree and remaining whole peas.
Step 4
Reduce the heat to low/medium and stir the puree through. Continue cooking gently until the rice is cooked completely, then turn the heat off and leave to rest for 5 minutes before portioning between 4 bowls.
Step 5
Finish with the remaining mint leaves and a little extra black pepper
- Ingredients
- Based on 4 servings
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1 tbsp Vegetable Oil 1x Sainsbury's Vegetable Oil 1L -
60g Parmesan Cheese 1x Sainsbury's Fresh Grated Parmigiano Cheese 60g -
500g Garden Peas 1x Stamford Street Co. Peas 850g -
1 Vegetable Stock Cube 1x Sainsbury's Stock Cubes, Vegetable 10x10g -
2 Garlic Cloves 1x Sainsbury's Garlic -
200g Diced Onions 1x Sainsbury's Diced Onions, Inspired to Cook 200g -
30g Mint 1x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Mint 30g -
400g Arborio Risotto Rice 1x Sainsbury's Arborio Risotto Rice 500g -
Maldon Salt, to taste 1x Maldon Sea Salt Flakes 250g