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    Home » Instant Pot

    Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto

    Published: Aug 3, 2019 · Modified: Jun 11, 2020 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

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    My friend Angela bought an Instant Pot Duo on Prime Day. A few days after she received I went round her house to show her how to use it and we improvised this delicious Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto.

    Delicious Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto served in a deep white plate with black wording. Recipe by Feisty Tapas. The perfect recipe for beginners with lots ot ftip

    This risotto is a great beginner recipe that shows off the Sauté function of the Instant Pot, as well as the amazingly easy dish that is a pressure cooked risotto.

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    You might also like my other risotto recipe, my Instant Pot Prawn, Trout and Pea Risotto.

    If you haven't tried pressure cooking risotto and are used to doing it on the hob, you're going to notice how much easier Instant Pot risotto is. No need to hang around.

    As your Instant Pot doesn't need babysitting, this recipe is also easier than on a conventional pressure cooker where you have to hang around to regulate the heat when it reachers pressure.

    That's because the Instant Pot just does it all on its own. It reaches pressure and counts down on its own while you keep doing whatever you fancy doing?

    In fact, what will you do while it's cooking?

    Read a book?

    Put your feet up?

    Play with the children or grandchildren?

    On the fence about buying an Instant Pot? Check out my Unboxing and Water Test videos.

    It's so easy to use and there's so much help to use it regularly, plus of course this website is full of Instant Pot recipes.

    Do let me know if you try it of course!

    Have you joined my Pressure Cooking UK with Feisty Tapas group?

    Delicious Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto just cooked

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    The pressure cooked risotto seen from above on a white plate that makes it look rather funny (the plate has the words spaghetti, tortellini, tagliatelle, cannelloni printed in black all around the rim)

    Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto

    Maria Bravo
    Pressure cooked risotto is not only delicious but it's easy and very hands-free. No more standing by the hob adding ladlefulls of stock. This is the perfect beginner recipe
    5 from 2 votes
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 5 minutes mins
    Course Appetizer, Main Course
    Cuisine Italian
    Servings 2 people
    Calories 381 kcal

    Equipment

    • 1 Pressure Cooker

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 onion chopped
    • 3 garlic cloves chopped
    • 1 celery stalk chopped
    • 1 courgette sliced into half moons
    • 6-8 mushrooms sliced in wedges
    • 1 glug white wine if you don't have any, don't worry, just use some of the stock
    • 150 g arborio risotto rice
    • 100 g frozen prawns
    • 400 ml water from the kettle
    • 2 tablespoons vegetable stock paste heaped, make my vegetable stock paste

    To serve (optional but it's so good!)

    • Knob of butter

    Instructions
     

    • Press Sauté, adjust to Less* and add 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil. Add the onion, garlic and celery and stir to coat in the olive oil. Put the Instant Pot glass lid on or a lid that fits. After 3-5 minutes add the courgette and the mushrooms and stir. In total the vegetables should be on sauté for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
    • Dilute the vegetable stock paste in the hot water
    • Add a glug of white wine (or a glug of the stock) and stir in the risotto rice, let it sauté for a couple of minutes, stirring. Deglaze by adding a splash of stock and scraping the bottom of the inner pot with a wooden spoon to make sure any caramelised bits are removed.
    • Stir in the prawns.
    • Pour the vegetable stock in while you stir.
    • Make sure the sealing ring is in place and press it down following its circumference a few times as you press it down. Steam release Sealed. Pressure cook on high pressure for 5 minutes.
    • At the end of the 5 minutes wait a few seconds for things to settle inside and do a quick pressure release**.
      Risotto is supposed to have a bit of bite, if you want it softer, put the lid back on whether fully or loosely and the rice will keep cooking in the residual heat.
      Delicious Instant Pot Prawn, Courgette and Mushroom Risotto just cooked
    • You can stir in a knob of butter at this stage. No cheese in seafood risotto.

    Notes

    My advice to make life easier, add the ingredients to the pot as you chop them in the order they show in the ingredients list.
    Vegetable Stock Paste recipe here
    Short of time? Skip the first step, it won't be the same but sometimes life just throws us curveballs
    Have homemade chicken or gammon stock at home? Use it for this recipe
    Want to double it up? Feel free. The timings remain the same. Just remember rice expands so you can only fill up to the half way line (the ½ line of your inner pot).
    How to set your Instant Pot to Sauté Less: Press the Sauté button immediately followed by the Adjust button to adjust to Less (or if you have v3 of the DUO, press Sauté a few times until it's set to Less)
    How to set your Instant Pot to Sauté More: Press the Sauté button immediately followed by the Adjust button to adjust to More (or if you have v3 of the DUO, press Sauté a few times until it's set to More)  
    *Terminology
    Quick release (also called quick pressure release or QPR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Natural release (also called natural pressure release or NPR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid.
    Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example, if a recipe says to do a 4 minute QPR at the end. You wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 381kcalCarbohydrates: 72gProtein: 20gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 81mgSodium: 1386mgPotassium: 762mgFiber: 5gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 206IUVitamin C: 24mgCalcium: 82mgIron: 4mg
    Keyword arborio, courgette, mushrooms, prawns
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    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

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    Comments

    1. Susan joyce says

      October 09, 2019 at 10:27 pm

      5 stars
      This recipe is fab.. I left out the mushrooms as we dont like them and used a reg stock cube as I haven't made the paste yet
      Everyone loved this and it will be a staple on our house
      Thanks for the great recipe. Love my instantpot

      Reply
    2. J says

      January 03, 2021 at 6:12 pm

      5 stars
      I adapted to use up Xmas leftovers, ham & cheese, and this was delicious and perfectly al dente!

      Reply
      • Maria says

        January 03, 2021 at 7:43 pm

        That's brilliant J! Thanks so much for letting me know. You might also like this Gammon Rice recipe https://www.feistytapas.com/2020/07/instant-pot-gammon-rice/

        Reply
    3. Nadira says

      October 19, 2022 at 1:18 pm

      Looks so easy and no standing & stirring 😊. Will try it tonight with roasted pumpkin. Can’t wait! Thanks Maria for all your delicious recipes

      Reply

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