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OUR LATEST VIDEOSI make so many Italian recipes on a daily basis and risotto is one of them. When I went vegan, I thought I couldn’t eat it anymore, but that’s not true, it’s quite easy to make a delicious vegan risotto, just use oil or vegan butter instead of butter and any vegan cheese or nutritional yeast instead of cheese, that’s all! I prefer to use extra virgin olive oil because we have high quality olive oil here in Spain and is quite inexpensive. And also nutritional yeast because I think is a healthier option than the vegan cheeses I can find here. As there are so many veggies, you’ll never get bored making risotto, you can use mushrooms, pumpkin, asparagus, peas, tomatoes or any vegetable you like.
What you can see in the picture above is a risotto in bianco, which is the basic risotto. This recipe is really tasty and creamy, so you can use it as a base to make any risotto you want. I added mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and basil, yum!
I don’t know why, but I can’t eat mushrooms, I’m not allergic to them, but I can’t digest them properly, that’s why there are just a few recipes using them on the blog and also the reason why you can see two different dishes in the pictures, one of them without the mushrooms, it’s mine! ? It was so delicious by the way with the tomatoes and the basil, it’s a great combo!
Vegan Mushroom Risotto
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 2-4
To make a vegan mushroom risotto is so easy. It’s cholesterol-free, lower in fat and healthier than the traditional one.
Ingredients
- 4 mushrooms
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
- 1/2 onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 oz celery, finely chopped (15 g)
- 8 oz arborio or short grain rice (225 g)
- 1/4 cup white wine (65 ml)
- 4 cups vegetable broth (1 liter)
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast (30 g)
- 4 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
- Fresh basil to taste, finely chopped
Instructions
- Slice the mushrooms and cook them in a frying pan or a saucepan over medium high heat with one tablespoon of oil, and some salt and pepper to taste until golden brown. Set aside.
- Add another tablespoon of oil in the frying pan (or saucepan) and cook over medium high heat the onion and the celery until golden brown. Then add the rice and cook for a couple of minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the wine and cook until the liquid is absorbed.
- Add warmed vegetable broth, 1 cup or 250 ml at a time and stir frequently. When the broth is almost absorbed, add more broth until the rice is cooked, but al dente. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes. Add more broth if necessary.
- Remove from the heat, add the last tablespoon of oil, the nutritional yeast and stir. Let the risotto stand covered for at least 2 minutes.
- Finally, add the mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and basil and serve. We add some ground black pepper on top sometimes.
- You can keep the risotto in a sealed container in the fridge for about 2 to 4 days.
Notes
* Recipe adapted from Jamie Oliver.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 of the recipe
- Calories: 367
- Sugar: 6.4 g
- Sodium: 176.7 mg
- Fat: 5.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 62.4 g
- Fiber: 10.1 g
- Protein: 21.7 g
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I’ve been following your blog for a while, and really enjoying the recipes! Can you sub nutritional yeast with the brewers yeast? It is impossible to find the other kind where I live.
Keep up the good work and all the best!
Hi! I am not the creator of this recipe but I would say no. I use nutritional yeast and brewer’s yeast ad they are completely different. Nutritional yeast has a cheesy flavor. Brewer’s yeast has a very strong flavor not like cheese at all (I use it to make cookies to increase my milk for feeding my baby). Hope hat helps!
Hi Jenn! Nutritional yeast tastes much better, but I also use brewer’s yeast sometimes and is okay, as long as you use the non-bitter kind 🙂
I didn’t even know there was a non-bitter kind. Thats good to know!
Hi Milena! It’s not easty to find nutritional yeast here in Spain, so I use brewer’s yeast sometimes, but the non-bitter kind 🙂
What is the substitute for wine in this recipe as I do not take alcohol
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Hi Jeyam! You can use water or vegetable broth instead 🙂