
From www.foxeslovelemons by Lori Yates
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 4
Preparation: 35 min
Cooking: 25 min
Ingredients
- 1000ml of vegetable (or chicken) stock
- 3 garlic cloves
- 0.5 onion (red preferably)
- 250g brown mushrooms
- 1 cup (240ml) arborio (risotto) rice
- 2 tbsp fresh thyme leaves
- 1/2 cup (120ml) dry white wine
- 250g shredded kale
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Special Equipment
- Small pan
- Large high-sided frying pan
Preparation
- Step 1 – Kale quality check
- Inspect the shredded kale and remove any hard bits of stalk
- Cut any large bits into smaller pieces
- Wash the kale thoroughly
- Step 2 – Stock
- Prepare stock in saucepan over medium heat
- When simmering, turn off heat and keep covered
- Step 3 – Onion and garlic
- Peel, halve and slice the onion into small bits
- Peel and finely chop the garlic
- Step 4 – Mushrooms
- Wash the mushrooms
- Cut in slices, and halve again to roughly button mushroom size
Cooking
- In large high-sided frying pan, melt some butter over medium-high heat.
- Add onion and garlic, cook for 2 min, stirring frequently.
- Add mushrooms and thyme, cook 8-10 min or until mushrooms are deep golden brown, stirring frequently.
- Reduce heat to medium, add the rice, cook 1-2 min or until rice begins to become translucent at edges of grains, stirring constantly.
- Add wine and pepper, stir constantly until wine is mostly absorbed.
- Add 1/2 cup hot stock, stir frequently until mostly absorbed. Add additional broth in 1/2 cup increments, stirring after each addition and cooking until broth is mostly absorbed before adding more. Cook for 18 min.
- Then stir in kale and cheese. Continue cooking 2-3 min longer or until rice is tender, stirring frequently and adding broth as needed (you may not need all of the broth).
Finishing
- Serve on preheated plates.
- Sprinkle some parmesan on top.

For vegetarians, make sure that you use vegetable stock.
In addition, for vegans, make sure that you omit the parmesan cheese.







