If you’re craving warm, filling comfort food this recipe for Chicken Bacon Risotto is just the dish you need. For this dish, I have tailored the recipe to make it friendly for those on the Slimming World plan.
Chicken Bacon Risotto Recipe
This chicken bacon risotto recipe is not synfree (it has a total of 5 syns per whole dish) but it is relatively low in syns which is perfect for an evening meal when sharing with the family. It’s got a small amount of white wine in it which really adds to the flavour and some parmesan stirred in towards the end of the cooking process. All in all, it is a really delicious dish and one that is a favourite for us to enjoy throughout the week.
Chicken and Bacon Risotto
A delicious low fat (and low in syns for Slimming World followers) Chicken and Bacon risotto, full of flavour that is soaked up in the Arborio rice. A dish that is a warm, filling comfort food, with plenty to go round.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts, diced
- 4 bacon medallions, cut into strips
- 1 onion, diced
- 500ml chicken stock (2 OXO cubes)
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 150g risotto rice
- 100ml white wine
- 80g garden peas
- 6 mushrooms, sliced
- 15g Parmesan
- 2 teaspoons of dried sage
- 2 teaspoons of rosemary
- Salt and Pepper to season
- Low fat cooking spray
Instructions
- Spray a deep frying pan with cooking oil spray
- Add the chicken and bacon, fry until cooked through then remove from the pan
- Re-spray with cooking oil spray and add the onion, garlic, mushrooms and fry gently
- Once onions have softened, add the risotto rice and stir fry for 30 seconds
- Pour in the wine and keep stirring
- Once the wine has reduced, add the stock but only one-ladle full at a time
- Let the rice soak up the liquid and keep adding the stock until you've added it all
- Add the herbs, chicken, bacon and peas back to the pan
- Season to taste
- Stir through and add a little water if needed
- Keep the heat low and simmer for 15 minutes
- Just before serving, turn the heat off, add the parmesan and stir through
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
If following the Slimming World plan, make sure to weigh and measure your own ingredient portions to protect your weightloss.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 323Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 69mgSodium: 565mgCarbohydrates: 24gFiber: 2gSugar: 5gProtein: 30g
It’s a really delicious dish and I used minimal amounts of wine and cheese in it to keep it low syn. This chicken bacon risotto recipe serves 4 good sized portions or 2 really large portions (depending on how hungry you are) and the total recipe has a syn value of 5. Therefore only 1.5 syns if splitting the complete dish into four or 2.5 syns if sharing the complete dish between two people.
Such a versatile dish
This dish is really versatile. You could keep it to one variety of meat such as bacon or chicken alone or why not try Turkey? Instead of using mushrooms and peas, you could add your favourite vegetable. Remember to cut up the vegetables into small pieces as so to keep in with the style of the dish.
You may wish to increase the parmesan that’s stirred through the dish (remember to check the syns if you add more cheese) and if you wanted the dish to exclude the wine, you could add a dash of white wine vinegar. (This would also reduce the amount of syns used).
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Ooh I love white wine in risotto. I actually rarely buy white but when I make a risotto it’s the law.
Nat.x
Can you do this with out white wine???
Of course, it just adds to the flavour with the wine but perfectly tasty without it
I make this with no wine (I up the stock liquid) and no cheese to make it syn and dairy free. It’s delicious!
Fab idea!
Hi looks
how many calories are there please
Hello! This looks so lovely can’t wait to try it! Can I double check if you can store it in the fridge to have the next day?
Yes, we always keep some for afters for lunch the next day! As long as you cheat it thoroughly it should be fine.