How can risotto be easy and quick? Use your Instant Pot! This shrimp risotto comes together in a snap. With a few ingredients, the dish will elevate a weeknight, or impress your guests. The electric pressure cooker eliminates most of the stirring of a classic risotto, and it frees you up to throw together a salad and slice up some crusty bread while it cooks for you!
Ingredients
- seafood stock: 2 cups
- green onions: 3 piece
- unsalted butter: 2 Tbsp (divided)
- clove garlic: 1 piece (minced)
- pinch salt and ground black pepper: 1 piece (to taste)
- arborio rice: 0.75 cup
- pinch pinch dried thyme: 1 piece
- dry white wine: 2 Tbsp
- shrimp: 0.5 pound (peeled and deveined)
- frozen peas: 0.25 cup
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese: 1 Tbsp (to taste)
- fresh flat-leaf parsley: 1 Tbsp (chopped)
- Lemon wedges: 4 piece (for garnish)
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Stages of cooking
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Heat seafood stock in a microwave-safe container for about 3 minutes on High. Leave in the microwave until ready to use.
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Slice green onions. Separate green and white parts.
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Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot) and select Saute function. Melt 1 tablespoon butter. Add garlic and white part of the green onions. Season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring, until onion has softened and garlic is fragrant, about 2 1/2 minutes. Add rice and thyme. Saute, stirring occasionally, until rice begins to have a little color, about 3 minutes.
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Pour in wine and cook, stirring, until wine evaporates, about 30 seconds. Stir in the heated seafood stock, making sure contents of the pot move freely. Turn off Saute function.
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Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set timer for 5 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for pressure to build.
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Release pressure carefully using the quick-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, about 5 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid. Add shrimp, peas, and reserved green onion tops. Close the lid and allow the shrimp to cook using the Keep Warm function, about 7 minutes. Open lid and check to see if shrimp are done.
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Add grated Parmesan cheese and remaining 1 tablespoon butter, stirring until butter is melted. Serve with fresh parsley and lemon wedges.
