Vegetarian Foodservice Recipe: Chicken shiitake with mushroom risotto
Recent research shows that more than 5% of the UK population are vegetarian, that’s 3 million diners. These diners need vegetarian menu options and frequent the venues that provide vegetarian menu options.
Fry’s Family Foods help you to provide vegetarian menu options not just through delicious and nutritious vegetarian food products, with easy to follow menu ideas too.
For a copy of our eCookbook just send us an email and we will send you a copy by reply.
Serves 4
Preparation time 30 minutes
Cooking time 1 hour
Vegan
Ingredients
Risotto
- Olive oil for frying
- 2 (300 g) medium onions, finely chopped
- 1 Tbsp (15 ml) garlic, finely chopped
- 1½ C (240 g) risotto rice
- ½ C (125 ml) organic white wine
- 1.5L vegetable stock, warm
- 3 C (750 ml / 90 g) kale, shredded
- ¼ C (60 ml) coconut cream
- salt and pepper
- 380 g Fry’s Chicken-style Strips
- 2 C (500 ml / 100 g) shiitake mushrooms, sliced
Basil Oil
- ½ C (125 ml / 20 g) basil leaves
- ½ tsp (2.5 ml) garlic, finely chopped
- ½ C (125 ml) olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Handful basil leaves, to serve
Method
Risotto
- Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the onions and gently sauté for 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic and rice and fry for 3 minutes.
- Pour in the wine and allow it to simmer for a minute.
- Add the stock, a ladleful at a time, and stir continuously until all of the stock has been absorbed.
- Add in the kale and coconut cream and cook for 5 minutes.
- Season to taste.
- Heat a frying pan over medium heat until hot.
- Add a splash of olive oil and fry the chicken strips for 6-8 minutes until golden.
- Remove from the pan, add more oil if needed and fry the mushrooms for 3-5 minutes until tender.
Basil Oil
- Place everything into a food processor and blend until smooth. Season to taste.
- Serve each portion of risotto topped with some Fry’s Chicken-style Strips and shiitake mushrooms.
- Add a splash of the basil oil and garnish with basil leaves.
TIP: If you do not like the taste of kale you can replace it with shredded spinach or Swiss chard instead.
Visit our website here