Recipe: Appetizing Almond and Butternut Squash Risotto

Almond and Butternut Squash Risotto. If you like the natural sweet flavor of butternut squash, you'll love this risotto! It is so creamy and full of flavor! Great as a side dish or main course.

I often serve it with red orach, a leafy vegetable with a brilliant purple color that we often find in our CSA. Creamy butternut squash risotto recipe, perfect for autumn. Making risotto has never been easier, thanks to an electric pressure cooker, like the Instant Pot. You can have Almond and Butternut Squash Risotto using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Almond and Butternut Squash Risotto

1. It's 3 of shallots.
2. It's 100 g of risotto rice (pp).
3. Prepare 100 g of ground almonds.
4. It's 100 ml of good white wine.
5. You need 1 of vegetable stock cube.
6. Prepare 1 of butternut squash.
7. It's 1 tsp of dried or fresh sage.
8. You need of Olive oil.
9. You need of Salt and pepper.

In this easy recipe, you don't have to stand over the stove constantly stirring. While the squash is roasting, prepare the risotto. Bring the stock to the boil and keep on a low simmer. In a separate pan, melt half the butter over a medium heat.

Almond and Butternut Squash Risotto step by step

1. Peal the butternut squash and cut in half. Scoop out the seeds and leave to one side. Chop the remainder of the butternut squash into 1cm squares..
2. Put the seeds on a tray with some olive oil and salt. Put butternut squash on another tray. Roast seeds and squash at 180C. Take seeds out after 5 mins. Take squash out after 20 minutes..
3. Dice the shallots and fry in a pan for 2-4 mins until golden brown. Add the risotto rice and stir for 1 min..
4. Add stock to 600 ml hot water..
5. Add all stock liquid to risotto pan and turn down the heat to simmer until evaporated. This will take 10-15 mins approx. (You can add the stock in parts if the quantity is too much for the pan you're using.).
6. After most of the water is evaporates, test the rice. If hard, add another 100ml of water and simmer until its evaporated..
7. If soft, add ground almonds, sage, salt and pepper and butternut squash..
8. Serve..

Butternut Squash Risotto from Delish.com is all you need this winter. A lot of butternut squash risotto recipes call for roasting the squash first. Here, everything cooks in the same pot, which means the butternut squash kind of becomes the sauce too. Risotto is the epitome of fast and fancy. It may seem like a dish that's better left to your favorite Italian restaurant to make, but it's actually incredibly easy to This butternut squash version is the one I turn to again and again throughout the fall and winter months.