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Try Mr Michael's favourite risotto! You can print off the recipe or better still,  buy the Cookbook and enjoy all the other recipes in there.  It can be ordered for only £10.00 using the Order Form below!

     Vegetable, Chicken and Chorizo Risotto 

     Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 1 onion, finely chopped or blitzed
• 3 cloves of garlic, crushed or blitzed
• 300g arborio risotto rice
• 1 litre of vegetable stock
• 250g of chicken breast, chopped into bitesize chunks
• 100g of chorizo sausage, chopped into 1cm cubes
• 1 courgette, grated
• 1 carrot, grated
• 4 or 5 of your favourite mushrooms, chopped
• Handful of peas
• Pinch of black pepper
• 15g of butter

Method

1. Heat the pan and add the butter on a low heat – once the butter has melted, add the chicken and the chorizo. Cook for about 4-5 minutes until cooked through and then remove them from the pan and set aside. 
2. Add the onion and garlic to the pan and cook until browned 3 or 4 minutes.
3. Boil the kettle and make the stock.
4. Once the onion and garlic are slightly browned and soft, add the risotto rice and stir to coat the rice in the butter left from the cooking of the meats.
5. From this point of the recipe stir regularly and add another 150mls of stock when it seems the rice may be going dry.
6. Add enough of the stock to cover the rice and leave for the rice to absorb the stock for about 2 mins. Then add more stock. 
7. Season with black pepper.
8. Add the mushrooms, courgette and carrot to the pan and stir (you will probably need to add more stock at this point)
9. Keep stirring regularly over the next 10 – 15 minutes and adding about 150mls of every 4 or 5 minutes until the rice is cooked through.
10. With about 5 minutes left, add the peas
11. Serve in a bowl and tuck in.