This Garlic Prawn and Tomato Risotto is light and creamy with big juicy prawns, bold garlic and rich colourful cherry tomatoes. It’s an easy and warming bowl of seaside seafood on a cool winters night.
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You might have heard it said that Risotto is one of those dishes that is “hard” to make, being that the rice might do all kinds of bad things if you don’t know what you’re doing and you’ll end up with a gluggy, stodgy mess on your hands, hardly worth eating at best, and bin worthy at worst.
Well, I’ve made my share of Risottos over the years, and while, I’ll admit it’s not as easy as say a just say cheesy Tuna Mornay Pasta Bake, a blink and it’s done Chilli Basil Chicken Stir-fry, or a Garlic Prawn Pizza on Sunday Nights, this is a dish worth making.
It’s a dish that takes a small amount of effort, a couple of pans, lots of prawns and a not obscene amount of cheese. But you will be rewarded when you sit down to enjoy this meal with family.
3 Tips For Creating The Perfect Risotto Rice Every time!
- Gradually add the stock: I divide the stock into 4 and add a ¼ each time just as the previous stock just starts to bubble. This keeps the rice cooking evenly without letting the liquid temperature drop too much during the cooking process.
- Leave it alone: Avoid the temptation to continuously stir. It is not necessary and you’d probably be better off having another glass of wine, or if you’re a clean freak, start with the washing up or putting things away. No amount of stirring will make it cook quicker or taste better.
- Take It Off At “Soup Like” consistency: Most people leave their risotto on way past when it should have come off. Take it off the heat when it resembles a thick soup. Remember it will continue to thicken after it is off the heat and once the lovely delicious parmesan goes in.
Living on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast leaves me with no excuse not to use the freshest seafood every time in my seafood dinner recipes, and yes in case you are wondering these prawns were fresh off the trawler from the Mooloolaba Seafood Market, just like when I made my Lemon Garlic Prawns and Spaghetti pasta.
Of course, if you live in a place of perpetual darkness in the middle of a dessert, you could use frozen prawns, but it really does taste the bomb with fresh, just caught rich, juicy and tender prawns!
Related: Juicy Crispy and Crunchy Asian Butter Prawns
Garlic Prawn and Tomato Risotto
Ingredients
- 500 grams / 1.1 lb. Uncooked prawns - (heads removed)
- 1 tablespoon Butter
- 1 medium Onion
- 2 tablespoons Garlic - (crushed)
- 2 cups / 200 grams Arborio Rice
- 4 cups / 950 ml Fish Stock
- 1 cup Cherry Tomatoes
- ½ cup Parmesan Cheese
- ½ cup /60 ml White Wine
- ½ teaspoon Thyme - (fresh or dried)
- ¼ cup Frozen peas
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon Chilli Flakes
- Lemon wedges to serve
Instructions
- Heat a frypan on the stovetop over medium heat and sauté the butter, onion and garlic.
- Add the white wine and stir for another 3 minutes.
- Add in the rice and coat it all over with the butter mixture for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of stock at a time and bring stir for a minute or two, then add the second cup of stock. Repeat until all stock is added.
- Stock should now be very hot. Add the thyme, sale and chilli flakes
- Add the uncooked prawns with heads removed. As they cook they will go from translucent to white. Try not to stir them to much after you’ve added them.
- When Risotto has become a thick soup consistency, remove from the heat and add in the parmesan chopped cherry tomatoes and frozen peas. Gently stir these in.
- Serve with lemon wedges.
- This dish is best eaten at the time it is cooked. However you can keep leftovers in the fridge in an air tight container for 24 hours. Discard after this time.
Nutrition
Note: Sugars contained in this recipe are from naturally occurring sugars in fruits, vegetables or other natural sweeteners. Calories have been calculated for your convenience using My Fitness Pal and are based on the ingredients listed in the recipe card.
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