This Sausage Mushroom Risotto is one of my favourite go to recipes if I want a tasty, quick(ish) and filling meal.
It is just 4 SmartPoints on Weight Watchers Freestyle plan.
The risotto is 4 Smart Points on Weight Watchers Freestyle plan, based on the recipe being enough for four portions.
The portions are small but are also very filling.
However, on greedy days, I have been known to double up and have two helpings ????
I tend to use M&S skinny sausages in this risotto but if you want to lower the Smart Points even more you could use Heck Chicken sausages.
If you do use Heck chicken sausages, I would suggest leaving the skins on though - just chop each sausage into 4 before baking.
This recipe is adapted from the tasty Sausage and Cherry Tomato Risotto recipe from Weight Watchers Kitchen Secrets cookbook .
The Porcini mushrooms give the risotto a deep, rich flavour and makes it a lovely, satisfying and comforting meal to have on a cold winters night.
Tips for making Sausage Mushroom Risotto fluffy
The knack to making a fluffy risotto is to add the liquid bit by bit.
This means that this recipe is not one that you can wander off and leave whilst you do other things!
You need to be close by, stirring the rice and adding more liquid once the previous liquid has been absorbed.
Way to reduce the SmartPoints in this recipe!
Use Heck chicken sausages rather than skinny pork sausages
Like Risotto? You may also like this recipe!
6 SmartPoint Prawn Risotto
Sausage & Porcini Mushroom Risotto
Ingredients
- 10 sprays calorie controlled spray oil
- ½ onion finely chopped
- ⅔ cup risotto rice
- 3 tbsp white wine
- ½ vegetable stock cube
- 3 lean pork sausages I used M&S
- ¾ cup dried porcini mushrooms
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200oC / 180oC Fan / 400oF / Gas mark 6.
- Place the dried mushrooms into a large bowl and pour over 500 ml boiling water. Soak for 20 minutes, then drain into a bowl, retaining the mushroom water to use to make the stock. Chop the mushrooms and set aside.
- Whilst the mushrooms are soaking, mist a baking tray with frylight and squeeze the sausage meat out of the sausages directly onto the baking tray. You can then discard the sausage skins. You want to make approximately 12 - 16 sausage balls. Cook for 25 minutes turning occasionally.
- Make the stock by using the mushroom water and crumbling in a stock cube. Add more boiling water, if needed, to make 500ml of stock.
- Whilst the sausages are cooking, spray a large frying pan with frylight and add the chopped onions. Cook and stir for 5 minutes until the onions have softened. If the onions start to stick to the bottom of the pan, add a splash of water to prevent this.
- Add the rice to the onions and stir for a minute or two before adding the wine. Cook for 30 seconds or so to let the alcohol burn off. Stir in the chopped porcini mushrooms.
- Keep the pan over a medium heat and start adding the stock, bit by bit, whilst stirring often. You want the rice to absorb all of the liquid before you add more liquid. The rice should start to plump up and become creamy and tender. By the time you add the last of the stock the rice should be cooked.
- Remove the risotto from the heat and add in the cooked sausage balls before serving.
Katherine Veale says
Very tasty recipe I follow Weight watchers on the W.W website so this recipe maybe on there website as well for the smart points value.
Marianne says
Hi Katherine
I am glad that you enjoyed this recipe & thank you for taking the time to comment - it is much appreciated!
Good luck with your WW journey
Kind regards
Marianne