Instant Pot Butternut Squash Risotto

August 7, 2019 Rae

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Roasted butternut squash is added to a creamy thyme and viognier instant pot risotto for a comforting fall dinner.

Instant Pot Butternut Squash Risotto with Viognier

Inspired by one of my absolute favorite butternut squash recipes from the last year, this version is cooked in an Instant Pot (or pressure cooker, whatever you prefer to call it), so that means it’s easy and quick to get onto the dinner table!

While technically a meatless recipe, I do call for the use of chick stock in this pressure cooker butternut squash risotto. It can obviously easily be adapted to be vegetarian by using vegetable broth, so the choice is yours.

The butternut squash is roasted in the oven, it can be roasted the night before or about an hour or so you plan to start cooking dinner. Since it’s cubed, it only takes about 40 minutes to roast so that’s enough time to take your shoes off, get into some comfy clothes, pour yourself a glass of wine (I recommend Viogner) and read a chapter or two of the book you’re struggling to get through. Speaking of books, I just finished Things You Save in a Fire and I really loved it and cannot recommend it enough. It’s such a huge contrast to what I usually read (give me all the dark and depressing novels any day of the week—be sure to leave some reading recommendations in the comments if you have one!)

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew―even one as competent and smart as Cassie. Except for the infatuation-inspiring rookie, who doesn't seem to mind having Cassie around. But she can't think about that. Because love is girly, and it’s not her thing. And don’t forget the advice her old captain gave her: Never date firefighters. Cassie can feel her resolve slipping...and it means risking it all―the only job she’s ever loved, and the hero she’s worked like hell to become. Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire is a heartfelt and healing tour-de-force about the strength of vulnerability, the nourishing magic of forgiveness, and the life-changing power of defining courage, at last, for yourself.

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I very rarely ever talk about politics or religion on here, and that’s for obvious reasons but the past week and a half, I have just been so plan sad and angry about what’s been going on in our country. Gilroy isn’t too far away from where I live, and while I called the Bay Area home, I attended the Gilroy Garlic Festival countless times. It’s a family event, a place where people should have felt safe to escape from their real lives for one day to eat all things garlic. Now it’s forever marred by a senseless tragedy. I don’t pretend to have the answers or solution on how to end the cycle, but I’ve noticed that there is no safe, free place for people to even have an open dialog about the issues at hand. Everyone just talks over one another, unwilling to listen to the other point of view and it’s just… disappointing.

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