Crab risotto

Crab risotto

Crab risotto

Canned crabmeat makes a delicious addition to this quick and easy risotto with frozen peas and herbs - ready in just 35 minutes

  • Serves 2
  • Easy

Nutrition per serving

  • Calories 560
  • Carbohydrates 78
  • Saturated Fat 8
  • Sugar 8
  • Protein 24
  • Fat 15
  • Fiber 10
  • Salt 2.1

Ingredients

  • 1l hot vegetable or fish stock

  • 25g unsalted butter, plus an extra knob

  • 1 small onion, finely chopped

  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped

  • 175g risotto rice

  • zest 1 lemon, juice of ½ , the other ½ cut into wedges to serve

  • 140g frozen peas

  • 170g can crabmeat chunks, drained

  • 1 tbsp finely snipped chives

Method

  1. Heat the stock in a saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer. Melt the butter in a separate medium saucepan, add the onion and garlic, and fry on a low-medium heat for 5 mins until softened but not coloured. Tip in the rice and cook for 1-2 mins until the rice is hot. Add the lemon zest with 1 ladleful of hot stock and stir constantly. Once the stock has been absorbed, continue to add it, a ladleful at a time, until the rice is cooked – this will take around 18 mins.

  2. When the rice is almost cooked but still has a little bite, tip in the peas, lemon juice and crabmeat, then season and cook for 3 mins more. Once the rice is cooked, turn off the heat, add a knob of butter and a splash more stock, and leave to sit for 2 mins. Sprinkle over the chives and serve with lemon wedges.