Spring Vegetable and Shrimp Risotto

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The bully happening astir this look is that it takes good to variation. You tin substitute spinach for the chard, oregon flip successful immoderate peas toward the extremity of cooking, oregon permission retired the shrimp and disturbance successful immoderate grated food if you privation a vegetarian version.

From Alexandria cookbook writer Domenica Marchetti and her daughter, Adriana Vance.

Ingredients

8 ounces (1 bunch) rainbow chard
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 mean carrots, chopped (about 1 cup)
2 leeks, achromatic and light-green parts only, chopped successful fractional lengthwise and past chopped crosswise into bladed slices and rinsed good to region immoderate grit
1 mean clove garlic, lightly crushed but near whole
1 spoon minced caller thyme leaves
1 spoon salt, positive much arsenic needed
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 cups uncooked arborio (short-grain) rice
1/2 cupful adust achromatic wine
6 cups to 7 cups food stock, rootlike broth oregon low-sodium chickenhearted broth, warmed
12 ounces ample earthy shrimp, peeled, deveined and chopped crosswise into thirds
Finely grated zest and freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1 tiny citrus (2 to 3 teaspoons zest; astir 3 tablespoons juice)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
610
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
89 g
Sodium
1850 mg
Cholesterol
130 mg
Protein
29 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Alexandria cookbook writer Domenica Marchetti and her daughter, Adriana Vance.

Tested by Domenica Marchetti and Adriana Vance.

Published May 1, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026