TUNA RISOTTO

[Karonjulie]

TUNA RISOTTO

4 Servings - 292 calories per serve - Total fat 3g (Saturated fat 0.8g) Weight watchers = 4.5 points

Ingredients

1 onion
1 garlic clove
sea salt to taste
180 g arborio rice
375ml chicken stock
400g chopped tomatoes
185g tuna in water
2 tbs parsley chopped
4 tbs frozen peas
15g oil  or use a bit of the chicken stock to saute



Add onion & garlic  into TM bowl and chop for 5  seconds on speed 7.

Add oil and salt, and saute for 2 mins at 100 degrees on speed 1.

Insert butterfly.  Add remaining ingredients, except frozen peas, and cook for 17-20 mins at 100 degrees on reverse   + speed soft  .    5 minutes before cooked add frozen peas.

Cheap, easy and yummy.

** optional: stir through Parmesan cheese and squeeze fresh lemon juice over the top.

Members' comments
cathy79 - Easy and delicious.  I used a large tin of tuna (400g?) as 185 didn't sound like enough to feed 4 people. The timing was perfect, very creamy texture, but very low fat.  Forgot the peas, doesn't matter.  Love these pantry recipes.

em - I made this the other day, very yummy and so easy. I agree, pantry recipes are great, something you can whip up easily without running to the shop!

RM - This was absolutely delicious.  I didn't have any tomatoes so I used diced tin toms and the tuna I had was in the little tins which was Tuna with semi dried tom and basil.  I also added 50gm of Parmesan at the end and let it rest in the thermo server for 20minutes.

Lellyj - My Mum cooked this and said it was delicious.  Maybe because it was so yummy they found it more 3 serves than 4.

JFI trialled this recipe as a quick nutritious meal--considered takeaway, but figured out that it would take longer to go get it than cook this dish . . . and besides IT WAS ON MY MENU PLAN!!  I was naughty . . . I doubled the recipe!!  Only used 1 onion, 2 well drained 185g tuna tins and 700, rather than 750g tomato, and the volume was JUST under the maximum.  I put the risotto in the thermoserver for a few minutes and this is when I added the peas.  The TMX certainly didn't seem to be under too much pressure or anything, and as I say the volume was just under the 2L mark.
Verdict . . . a yummy, healthy, quick and easy meal . . .YAY!

JD - We had this with the addition of some fresh asparagus added with the peas (I didn't add the tuna until then either). A nice quick, cheap meal with ingredients on hand.

djinni373 - Short on time tonight and there was only 4 of us for dinner so I made this. So quick and easy and soooo delicious!
Just a few minor changes: added a small leek instead of onion, 1 teaspoon of good old vege stock concentrate instead of chicken stock and added a 425g tin of tuna in last 5 minutes. Stirred through about 3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese then sqeezed lemon juice on top to serve. YUMYUM.  I always used tinned tomatoes for this as it is really good to make if you are in a big hurry (and a tin is easy as). Did use fresh tomatoes once but didn't like the colour of the risotto or all the skins hanging off the butterfly.
 
KerrynN - Well I managed to get it cooked and to the table in just over half an hour. I did also make some MEMOC (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3419.0) to put into it as with only two vegetables it didn't feel quite enough for the children who are in the middle of their two week intensive swimming classes at school. I really enjoyed it, DH thought it was OK and then added some pepper and really enjoyed it, and both the kids were not too impressed (but as they are soooo tired and nothing is making them happy today I wouldn't rely on it).

TAT - This is easily one of the cheapest, simplest, healthiest and yummiest risottos we've made in the thermie! We love it!



 

[Thermomixer]

Cheap, easy and yummy.

Thanks for the recipe - easy -  like the cheap, easy and yummy bit 

[Rowi]

Hi, there.  I am wondering what "speed soft" means?  I have a Thermomix that I purchased in Spain, so I'm not familiar with the English terminology.  Does it mean the "spoon" setting on the speed dial?
Thanks so much!

[bron]

Yes Rowi, I am in Spain, and here we call it spoon speed, but overseas they call it speed soft.... 

[Thermomixer]

Thanks Rowi - I have edited the recipe with the symbols to make it "internationally friendly"

[cathy79]

Made this tonight - easy and delicious.  I used a large tin of tuna (400g?) as 185 didn't sound like enough to feed 4 people.

The timing was perfect, very creamy texture, but very low fat.  Forgot the peas, doesn't matter.  Love these pantry recipes.

[Thermomixer]

  Love these pantry recipes.

Very true CB79 - great to be always able to whip up a great quick meal with what we know we'll have on hand.

[em]

hi i made this the other day, very yummy and so easy. i agree, pantry recipes are great, something you can whip up easily without running to the shop!

[RM]

This was absolutely delicious.  I didn't have any tomatoes so I used diced tin toms and the tuna I had was in the little tins which was Tuna withs semi dried tom and basil.  I also added 50gm of Parmesan at the end and let it rest in the thermo server for 20minutes.

[Lellyj]

My Mum cooked this and said it was delicious.  Maybe because it was so yummy they found it more 3 serves than 4.  I wonder if anyone has tried doubling it?  I need to have 5 serves!  I think it might all fit, what do you think?

[Cornish Cream]

I think twice the recipe is going to be too much Lellyj.How about 1x1/2 the recipe and see if that cooks OK.Since someone mentioned about stripping the blades if you overload the TM, I am a lot more careful these days.

[judydawn]

Lellyj, because this is a weight watchers recipe, you will find the serves are smaller than normal - hence the recipe saying it feeds 4.  If you want to double it, you could start a second batch whilst the first is resting in the thermosaver. Have everything beside the TMX ready to go.  By the time your family have eaten a small bowful, seconds should be ready.

[Lellyj]

Thanks Cornish Cream and Judydawn, both great suggestions.    I'm a bit stressy about overloading the blades too, CC and also my mum didn't have the base of her tmx on properly and she damaged her machine by stuff getting inside the motor, so I'm anxious to not overflow, too! 

[fundj&e]

In the EDC book the mushroom risotto has upto 400grams of rice so why would this recipe would put stress on the blades. i am missing something ?

[Lellyj]

Fundj I'm thinking that it's not only the rice, but the 800g of tomatoes, the 370g tuna, and the 750g stock as well as the rice, if this recipe were doubled, that might push the volume over capacity . . . anyway, the dish is on my menu plan this week on concert night as something quick and easy, so I will have a fiddle and report back.

Just to let you know, I casually said "on my menu plan" . . . as if I'm super-organised and plan my meals ahead all the time . . . NOT!  Usually I plan my meals walking home from school, or hanging on the fridge door at about 5.00 pm, and usually I have to take the dog for a walk to the shop to make sure I have the ingredients!!  I truly don't know whats happened to me . . . and the last week of term, too!  I think it's all these thermomeals I want to try that's inspiring me to have a personality transplant . . .
Can't wait for the holidays when I try making yogurt, and something I thought I would NEVER make, butter, just can't resist reading all these posts about how yummy home made butter is.  The personality transplant continues . . .