Spring Pea & Lemon Risotto

Bright, creamy risotto finished with sweet peas, lemon zest, and white miso instead of parmesan.

💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 16g

Green peas (8g)
Arborio rice (6g)
Miso (2g)

🍃 Sugar-Free Option

No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.

Ingredients (all organic)

✓ Arborio rice, 3/4 cup
✓ Low-sodium vegetable broth, 3.5 cups, warm
✓ Green peas, 1 cup
✓ Shallot, 1
✓ White wine, 1/4 cup (optional)
✓ White miso, 2 tsp
✓ Lemon, 1
✓ Olive oil, 1 tbsp
✓ Mint

How to Prep

1Sweat shallot in oil; toast rice 2 minutes.
2Add broth a ladle at a time, stirring, about 20 minutes.
3Stir in peas, miso, lemon zest and juice off the heat.
4Rest 2 minutes; finish with torn mint.

#comfort#gluten-free#weekend

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:

Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park

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Spring Pea & Lemon Risotto

Ingredients (all organic)

How to Prep

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

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