Barley “risotto” with chestnuts

Easy-peasy autumn recipe: Barley “risotto” with chestnuts

Today we share with you the recipe for barley “risotto” with chestnuts. Very healthy, plant-based dish will warm you up in cold autumn days.

Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked chestnuts
• 200g barley
• 200g tofu
• 150g carrots (or other vegetables by choice)
• Ginger
• Onion
• Garlic
• Parsley
• Spices

Preparation:

1. Day before cooking: Soak barley in water overnight in a covered container. Next day: drain and rinse the barley before cooking. 
2. Rinse the chestnuts. Place them in the pot of water. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to obtain a nice gentle simmer. Cook for 20minutes. When cool enough to handle, work quickly with one chestnut at a time to remove the outer shell.
3. Heat the oil and add chopped onion and garlic. After 5 minutes, add ginger and spices and simmer for few minutes.
4. Add carrots, barley, chestnuts, salt and 2dcl of water. Cook at a lower temperature.
5. After 20minutes add sliced tofu and simemr for 2-3minutes.
6. Serve with chopped parsley on the top (we’ve used parsley pesto).
7. Bon appetit.

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Preprost jesenski recept: Ječmenova “rižota” s kostanji

Danes z vami delimo recept za ječmenovo “rižoto” s kostanjem. Zelo zdrava jed s sestavinami rastlinskega izvora, ki vas bo ogrela v teh hladnih jesenskih dneh.

Sestavine:

• 500g kuhanega kostanja
• 200g ječmena
• 200g tofuja
• 150g korenja (ali druge zelenjave po vaši izbiri)
• Ingver
• Čebula
• Česen
• Peteršilj
• Začimbe

Priprava:

• Dan pred kuhanjem: Ječmen čez noč namočite v vodi v pokriti posodi. Naslednji dan ječmen pred kuhanjem odcedite in sperite.
• Operite kostanje. Nato jih položite v lonec z vodo.
• Zavrete, nato ogenj znižate in kuhate 20 minut. Ko se kostanji dovolj ohladijo, jim odstranite zunanjo lupino.
• Segrejte olje in dodajte sesekljano čebulo in česen.
• Po 5 minutah dodajte ingver in začimbe ter dušite nekaj minut.
• Nato dodajte korenje, ječmen, kostanj, sol in 2dcl vode. Kuhajte pri nižji temperaturi.
• Po 20 minutah dodajte narezan tofu in 2-3minute pokuhajte.
• Postrezite s sesekljanim peteršiljem na vrhu (midve sva uporabili pesto iz peteršilja).
• Dober tek.

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