{"id":165,"date":"2009-11-16T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-11-16T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:19:00","slug":"squash-risotto-with-chicken-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/2009\/11\/squash-risotto-with-chicken-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Risotto with Chicken Sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SwCoxXSuKcI\/AAAAAAAAB-I\/Nm3icJ5Nfdo\/s1600-h\/IMG_9222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SwCoxXSuKcI\/AAAAAAAAB-I\/Nm3icJ5Nfdo\/s400\/IMG_9222.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404505118864189890\" \/><\/a>Hello dear cooking blog. Please accept my apologies for being away for so long. But I am back and I thought this dish would help make up for my long absence. I just love a nice savory stick to your ribs risotto. While I was rummaging through the fridge looking for something to throw together for dinner I spied some leftover roasted squash. I am growing weary of the typical squash soup and thought maybe I could incorporate this into some risotto. Yes! I still have some decent fresh sage in the garden &#8211; a perfect match with squash. And for some protein I have these delicious chicken sausage with asiago cheese and spinach in the freezer. Perfect! <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I made a chicken broth with water and some Korean chicken dashi powder. Not quite homemade but it will do in a pinch for this dish. Altogether it was about 7 cups of broth. I chopped up a medium onion and sauteed it in a hot pan with olive oil. Once they were softened I added about 2.5 cups of Korean rice. I use this rice for everything. It has a fair amount of starch which lends itself well to risotto if you don&#8217;t rinse it. I tossed in the rice, some chopped garlic and some sliced fresh sage. I started slowly adding the broth with stirring over the next 15 minutes. I added some frozen peas for a touch of sweetness and color and added a pound of the chicken sausage. Cooking was continued for another 5 minutes or so until the rice was the perfect texture &#8211; not too soft and not to crunchy. It was nicely savory and really filling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear cooking blog. Please accept my apologies for being away for so long. But I am back and I thought this dish would help make up for my long absence. I just love a nice savory stick to your ribs risotto. While I was rummaging through the fridge looking for something to throw together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[224,248,9,249],"class_list":{"0":"post-165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"tag-chicken-sausage","7":"tag-rice","8":"tag-risotto","9":"tag-squash","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}