BROCCOLI + MUSHROOM ORZO BAKE // Serves 6
It’s like a mac n cheese-ish pasta bake nonetheless with some greens in it. My children like broccoli, nonetheless it is potential you will get away with regardless of your folks like in related quantity, and cooked earlier than along with it in. As long as the mushrooms are massive small, I can squeeze these by them. Sub in peas or hunks of cooked butternut squash or add in 1/2 lb. of browned Italian sausage contained within the event you want an animal protein in there.
All via the event you’re making this to ship or freeze, assemble all of the units by the use of the panko parm topper, and wrap it in foil. Change alongside instructions to convey it to room temperature earlier than baking.
Substances
2 Tbsp. of additional virgin olive oil or butter
1 small yellow onion – chopped small
8 oz. of mushrooms – cleaned, massive exactly chopped
3 cloves of garlic – minced
sea salt
pepper
2/3 cup of white wine
1 pinch of pink pepper flakes
2 tsp. of newest thyme leaves
3 cups of vegetable or rooster inventory
1/2 lb. of orzo (about 1 heaping cup)
1/2 cup of heavy cream
1 lemon – zested
4 oz. of grated fontina or Italian cheese mix
1 cup of panko
1/4 cup of parmesean
extra virgin olive oil
trendy parsley – chopped
Instructions
Grease an 8” pan or 10” oven-proof skillet. Preheat the oven to 400′.
In an unlimited Dutch oven or skillet over medium, warmth your oil or butter. Add the onion, and sauté a couple of minutes till tender. Add the mushrooms, garlic, large pinches of salt and pepper and sauté one totally fully totally different 5 minutes, till the liquid is launched and along with you get some browning. Stir all by way of the wine and put collectively dinner one totally fully totally different 5 minutes to rearrange dinner down. Stir all by way of the pepper flakes, thyme, and alter off the warmth.
In a single totally fully totally different pot, warmth the broth to a light-weight boil. Add the orzo and put collectively dinner for about 7 minutes till merely tender. Sure, it ought to absorb numerous the moisture.
Change the orzo and any residual broth to the pot with the mushrooms. Add the steamed broccoli, cream, lemon zest, cheese and one totally fully totally different pinch of salt and pepper. Fold all of the units to mix. It should be free.
Change the combo to your ready pan. Sprinkle the panko and parm on prime, and drizzle it with olive oil (it is possibly refrigerated for a day or frozen at this diploma. Convey the refrigerated one to room temperature earlier than baking. Put collectively dinner the frozen one, lined for 25 then uncovered for 20). Bake for 20 minutes, uncovered, till the proper is golden brown.
Garnish with trendy herbs.
Your full casserole may be assembled as pretty a bit as a day upfront and baked merely earlier than serving. It’d in all probability be frozen pre-bake as exactly.
This makes a whole lot of meals, is usually a unbelievable one to double and reward or freeze for later.
As long as you get your mushrooms and broccoli small, mine hottest it!
Jovial makes a cassava-based orzo. It might effectively get gummy, nonetheless I really really actually really feel it ought to nonetheless work applicable right correct proper right here. It’s attainable a long-grain brown rice would work applicable right correct proper right here, too. I might merely steam it earlier than assembling, and add two eggs in there contained within the event you might to assist it defend some kind.