Greek Herby Shrimp Risotto with Feta

ByIvy Liacopoulou
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This Greek Herby Shrimp Risotto is a wonderful and gluten-free dish made with shrimps and herbs, but with a tasty Greek feta twist. 

Chronia Polla - Happy 2010!!  I hope you all had a wonderful time.  

Unlike Christmas day, we had a wonderful time during these holidays.  The weather here in Greece was fantastic and more like Spring (I heard on the weather forecast that it was the hottest New Year day the past hundred years) so with a good weather like that we couldn't stay at home for long.

December was a very sinful month and I have used more butter than I use in a whole year. 

Hopefully, we will be back to normal healthy eating again and as most of you share resolutions this time of the year, mine would be not to eat butter again until next December 🙂  put some exercise in my life again and try and loose the extra weight I gained during the holidays.

I don't really like making resolutions as I never keep them but this year my primary goal will be to focus on the cookbook and hopefully have it published within 2010.  

There's a lot of work needed to be done and believe me that is more work than I imagined. 

It's a huge project and I estimate that I will be working full time in the afternoons until late in the evening. 

I am not sure if I will use the recipes I have already published, but my goal will be to recreate some of them to test them again and hopefully take better photos and of course make some new original ones, always using the best fresh local ingredients and giving substitutes to some Greek products I use, wherever possible.

This will be taking a lot of my time, at least until I get started, so I will try and post only once a week, considering that I have the Greek blog as well and will follow your posts on my google reader or Facebook during breaks and will try and visit all of you as much as time permits.

Collage shrimp and herb risotto picture


I used frozen shrimps to make this risotto but you can use fresh ones if you like but frozen  shrimps are just as good and you can make this dish in no time. 

Frozen shrimps picture

The addition of feta made it creamy and we loved it.  I always like to try new flavours and when I made it again, instead of using parsley and dill I used dried mint.   Absolutely delicious!!

Mint on Risotto image
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Greek Herby Shrimp Risotto with Feta

Yield: 6
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

This Greek Herby Shrimp Risotto is a wonderful and gluten-free dish made with shrimps and herbs, but with a tasty Greek feta twist 

5.0 Stars (1 Review)

Ingredients

  • 1 kilo frozen shrimps or fresh if you prefer
  • ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 leek (white part only), finely chopped
  • 2 spring onions (white part and a little of the green), finely chopped
  • 1 - 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 500 grams carolina rice (sub. arborio)
  • ½ cup white dry wine
  • 5 ½ cups shrimp broth
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons parsley, finely cut
  • 2 tablespoons dill, finely cut
  • 150 grams feta, crumbled

Instructions

  1. Boil shrimps for 5 minutes, strain and reserve the broth.
  2. Heat the olive oil in a big heavy skillet over medium heat  Sauté leek, onions and garlic until they are translucent (about 2 to 3 minutes).
  3. Add the rice and sauté, stirring continuously, until rice grains are oil-coated (about 3 minutes). Pour in wine and reduce heat to medium low. Simmer uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes, adding a cup of broth each time and stirring until it is absorbed.
  4. Season with salt and pepper and five minutes before the end, add the last cup of broth, stir in the shrimps as well as the feta, the parsley and dill and mix.
  5. Remove from the heat, cover the frying pan and let it stand 5 minutes before serving, sprinkling some more dill, parsley and black pepper on top.
Nutrition Information
Yield 6 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 651Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 7gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 12gCholesterol 656mgSodium 3178mgCarbohydrates 33gFiber 1gSugar 2gProtein 75g

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© Ivy Liacopoulou
Cuisine: Greek Cuisine / Category: Risotto

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Happy New Year to all of you with Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity!!

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32 Comments

  1. Happy New Year Ivy and glad to hear the family is now well. Seafood (shrimp in this case) in risotto is a delight and an excuse to sip some wine while stirring!

  5. Happy New Year Ivy! Sounds like you have a busy time ahead of you...good luck with it all. You can't go past a decent risotto...and I love the flavours you have used!

  6. This looks lovely, Ivy! I made risotto last night, too... it was delicious:

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    I used only 1 1/2 TBS olive oil and 1 TBS butter and it worked out wonderfully. 😉

  7. I'm glad someone over there is having great weather... the hottest in 100 years sounds really nice right now 🙂 I think shrimp is a fantastic way to get back on the healthy eating wagon 🙂

  9. Best wishes for the coming year Ivy! I wish you the best of luck with your cookbook project; I can't see how it is going to be harder than keeping a blog like this? risotto looks so delicious!

  13. Happy New Year Ivy. The risotto sounds wonderful and creamy. Good luck with the book and I am looking forward to seeing it.

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