Recipe: Tasty Butternut Squash and Spinach Risotto

Butternut Squash and Spinach Risotto.

You can cook Butternut Squash and Spinach Risotto using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butternut Squash and Spinach Risotto

1. You need 1/2 of white onion.
2. It's 1 clove of garlic.
3. It's 1 cup of spinach.
4. You need 1 of butternut squash.
5. You need 1/2 cup of Risotto rice.
6. It's 1 pinch of salt.
7. Prepare 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
8. It's 1 dash of olive oil.
9. You need of sage.
10. Prepare 1 of vegetable stock cube.

Butternut Squash and Spinach Risotto step by step

1. Preheat oven to gas mark 7.
2. Chop onions/garlic and fry until softened.
3. Add rice to the pan (dry) and fry with the onions for a few minutes to absorb the flavour of the onions.
4. Make up the stock cube with about 700ml of water and pour into the pan.
5. Chop butternut squash into small cubes and microwave for 5 minutes to pre-soften it then add it to the oven.
6. Wait for the butternut squash to be cooked (roughly 20 mins) and for the rice to fully absorb the stock.
7. In the last 5 minutes ish, add the spinach to the pan.
8. Combine everything together. Cut cheese into cubes and add this too..
9. Sprinkle a generous amount of sage into the pan and season to taste. Stir well.