What's Cooking?

Last week's Chicken Enchilada Dip was featured at Full Plate Thursday.  Woo-hoo!  

Thank you so much Miz Helen!

This morning I needed to make a chicken recipe for the Dishing It Up recipe hop

and

I needed to review Knorr Homestyle Chicken Stock for Smiley360

and

I needed to post a recipe for Miz Helen's Full Plate Thursday (I couldn't NOT post the week after I had been awarded this prestigious honor)

so...

all three are getting knocked out in one fell swoop.

Today, like seriously right now just for you at 8:11am on a Thursday, I am making Kohl Rabi & Sugar Snap Pea Risotto - just as soon as I get in from picking the sugar snaps out of the garden.

Okay, so started making the risotto and had a mild panic thinking that I might be out of arborio rice.
Rice was found.  Crisis averted.

If your peeps insist on having meat with every meal, you could always throw in some cooked and shredded chicken to this and it would be very tasty.

Kohl Rabi & Sugar Snap Pea Risotto

1 tub Knorr Homestyle Chicken Stock
4c. Water
Olive Oil
Knob of Butter
Handful of Scallions, chopped
3 small Kohl Rabi Bulbs, peeled and diced
1 1/2c. Arborio (Risotto) Rice
1/3c. White Wine
Sugar Snap Peas
Salt & Freshly Ground Pepper to taste
Parmesan to serve

Boil 4c. water in a saucepan, drop in stock.  Stir, cover, and keep warm.
Go three times around the pan with the oil and get the pan heated.  Drop in the butter, kohl rabi, and onions.  Cook for about 5 minutes.
Next, put the rice in the onion mixture and cook until rice is translucent (about a minute).
Pour in the wine and cook until it has been absorbed.
Pour in the stock one ladle full at a time waiting each time for it to be absorbed by the rice.
Once the stock is gone, if your rice is still not tender enough for you, pour in a little water, and by little, I mean like 1/2c.-ish at a time until it is where you want it to be.
Just before it is at the consistency that you like, stir in the peas, cut off the heat, and put a lid on the pan for 5 minutes.
Season to taste.
Grate Parmesan over the top to serve.

That was the recipe part, here is the review part:

The Knorr Homestyle stock was so convenient!  I have reveled in homemade stock for years but the downside to my stock is that I freeze it (because I am terrified of my pressure cooker).  Which means when I want to use the frozen stock, I have to have some foresight to let it thaw - no impromptu risotto for breakfast.

I looked for the MSG in it and couldn't find it.  That's because it isn't there.  Many of the stocks available use MSG as a flavor enhancer but not Knorr Homestyle. 

What it comes down to is taste, and this tastes good. 

*I was sent a package of Knorr Homestyle Stock by Smiley360 to use and review.  All opinions are my own.