With Bite Me Fine Foods Vegetarian Falafels
Posted By Bec van den Elzen - Nutritionist July 2, 2018
Ingredients
(Serves 6)
- 4 Bite Me Fine Foods Green Lentil Falafels (slice into quartes)
- 1 cup Arborio rice
- 1 small head of broccoli, sliced (optional)
- 200g mushrooms, sliced
- 200g butternut pumpkin
- 1⁄2 cup of baby spinach
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 large clove garlic
- 1 litre veggie stock
- Olive oil for cooking
- Parsley to serve
- Nutritional Yeast/Parmesan to serve
Method
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Roast sliced pumpkin for 25 minutes or until soft. Remove, and mash.
- In a saucepan, cook mushrooms, broccoli, onion and garlic (in a drizzle of olive oil).
- In separate saucepan, bring stock to the boil.
- Meanwhile, once veggie mixture is cooked, add rice, spinach, pumpkin and wine.
- Slowly pour 1-2 cups at a time of stock into veggie/rice mixture.
- Continue to boil until liquid has reduced and rice is cooked.
- Heat 4 Bite Me Fine Foods Falafels in a sandwich press or fry pan, slice into quarters and stir into risotto mixture.
- Serve with parsley and nutritional yeast.