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Spinach & Sausage Risotto with Mushrooms

A creamy risotto made with sliced white button mushrooms, Wienerli and Cervelat sausages, spinach, and Parmesan, cooked in chicken bouillon water.
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Servings: 2 servings
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g White Button Mushrooms sliced
  • 180 g Risotto rice
  • 3 Wienerli sausages cut into 1cm chunks
  • 3 Cervelat sausages cut into 1cm chunks
  • 110 g Spinach washed and dry
  • 100 ml heavy cream
  • 3 cloves garlic finely minced
  • 2 onions small diced
  • Grated Parmesan optional topping
  • 1 cube chicken bouillon cube
  • 650 ml water
  • 1½ tbsp olive oil
  • White pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste

Method
 

  1. Start off by prepping all the sausages as listed, along with the garlic, onions and spinach. Pat the spinach dry before cooking. In a tall pitcher, add in one chicken bouillon cube and 650ml of water, stir until the cube starts to melt.
  2. In a large saucepan, heat up 1 tbsp olive oil to medium high heat. First, toss in the garlic and stir fry for around 10 seconds. Toss in the mushrooms and slowly turn up the heat to high. The mushrooms will start to sweat, do not stir so often but only when you think it’s sticking to the pan.
  3. Cook for about 2 minutes before flipping it over to the other side, continue cooking for another 3 minutes. The mushrooms will start to wither and shrink to ½ their original size, let it keep cooking until it’s a nice golden color.
  4. Remove the mushrooms from the pan and add ½ tbsp olive oil. Make sure to reduce the heat to medium and add in the onions. Stir constantly until the onions are turning translucent. Cook for another 30 seconds until it’s just starting to turn golden.
  5. Add in the risotto rice and stir until the edges look translucent. Add in a ladle at a time of the chicken bouillon water, as soon as the water added from before seems absorbed.
  6. The rice will start to be done at the 18 minute mark, but before finishing it off; add in the spinach. The water from the spinach will soften it more so continue cooking for another 2 minutes, while adding more water if needed.
  7. Finish off the risotto by pouring in heavy cream and stirring in the sausages as well as the mushrooms. Cook for another minute and take it off the stove.
  8. Top with grated parmesan and enjoy!

Notes

For sausages, use two different types for variation in flavour but make sure to use precooked ones. If you prefer a creamier sauce, add in about 30g-40g of the grated Parmesan when you are adding the heavy cream at the end.
Total time: about 45 min.