Featuring white wine, goat cheese and fresh spinach, this dish will have your guests thinking you picked it up from a restaurant!
—LYDIA BECKER PARKVILLE, MO
PREP: 15 MIN. • COOK: 35 MIN. • MAKES: 4 SERVINGS
4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup uncooked arborio rice
1 fresh thyme sprig
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3/4 cup white wine or additional reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 cups chopped fresh spinach
4 ounces fresh goat cheese, crumbled
1. In a small saucepan, heat broth and keep warm. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, saute onion in oil until tender. Add the rice, thyme, bay leaf and pepper; cook and stir for 2-3 minutes. Reduce heat; stir in wine. Cook and stir until all of the liquid is absorbed.
2. Add heated broth, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring constantly. Allow the liquid to absorb between additions. Cook just until risotto is creamy and the rice is almost tender. (Cooking time is about 20 minutes.) Add the shrimp and spinach; cook until shrimp turn pink and spinach is wilted.
3. Stir in cheese. Discard thyme and bay leaf. Serve immediately.
PER SERVING 405 cal., 9 g fat (3 g sat. fat), 157 mg chol., 832 mg sodium, 45 g carb., 1 g fiber, 28 g pro. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 1/2 starch, 1 fat.
What’s Arborio Rice?
Arborio rice is a medium grain rice used for making risottos. In risottos, the rice has a creamy texture with a chewy center.