Easy Seafood Risotto
This Seafood Risotto is easy to make, full of great flavours and textures, and is endlessly customizable!
Servings: 6 People
Calories: 579kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Onion finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon Butter
- 4 Garlic Cloves pressed or minced
- 1 lb Arborio Rice
- 1 ½ cups Dry White Wine
- 5 cups Well seasoned chicken or seafood stock * Simmering
- Zest of 1 Lemon
- Salt & Pepper
- 1 lb Raw Shrimp shelled
- 1 lb Bay Scallops
- ¾ cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
- ⅓ cup Chopped Fresh Parsley
Instructions
- In a large pan, sweat onions in butter until translucent. Add garlic and rice, stir well.
- Add half of the wine, stirring until wine is almost completely absorbed by the rice. Repeat.
- Add stock, about ½ cup at a time, stirring constantly. As rice absorbs one ladle of stock, add another and continue stirring.
- Once rice is almost cooked stir in as much of the lemon zest as you want (we like it really lemony, and use all of it), and season with salt and pepper to taste. Add scallops and shrimp along with one final scoop of simmering stock. Stir gently until seafood is cooked through. Remove from heat.
- Stir in parmesan cheese and parsley, just until well incorporated and smooth. Serve hot, garnished with more parsley and parmesan.
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Notes
* For seafood stock, I like to flavor basic chicken broth just before making the risotto. I’ll bring some standard chicken stock up to a simmer, and add shrimp shells, celery, some onion, etc and let it simmer. I like to save little baggies of raw shrimp shells in the freezer for when I need to make some seafood stock.
Nutrition
Calories: 579kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 39g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 230mg | Sodium: 1762mg | Potassium: 559mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 507IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 334mg | Iron: 6mg