Sausage, Brown Rice Risotto
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 lb sweet Italian sausage
- 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium bell pepper, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup brown rice
- 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans chicken broth (I use low sodium)
- 1 teaspoon dried sage or 1 teaspoon dried basil, crumbled
- salt
- pepper
directions
- Bring water and wine to boil in a medium saucepan.
- Add sausages and reduce heat to a simmer.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes; sausages should be fully cooked but still juicy.
- Drain sausages (discard water/wine) and cut them into 1/2 inch slices, reserving sausage juices.
- Melt butter in a large saucepan. Saute rice until golden brown.
- Add onion and bell pepper and saute over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
- Mix in garlic and saute for another minute.
- Add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Simmer rice for about 45 minutes, until creamy.
- Just before rice is cooked, add sausage juices and sage.
- Stir in sausage slices and season to taste with salt and pepper.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Northwest Lynnie
United States
An avid cook since I was a teenager, and a retired First-Grade teacher, my students and I used to cook twice a month in the classroom, coordinating what we prepared with our curriculum. I always snuck in mini- lessons on nutrition and manners at the same time. :) The children loved it, taking home recipes they made in class and asking their parents to make them again at home. THESE were no boring lessons on liquid and dry measurement! If you think about it, cooking is largely a combination of math, chemistry, and artistry.
Fond memories of my students play a role in my cooking-life today. A giant, framed, black chalkboard graces one dining room wall, replete with the menu-of-the-day in manuscript handwriting and simple chalk drawings.
Special joys in my life these days, (besides two outstanding grown children :), family, friends, and cooking) include gardening/landscaping, writing a book about teaching, music, discovering watercolors by local artists, and exploring my new island home, where bald eagles and Dungeness crabs are among my neighbors.