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Vegan Curried Chickpea & Pearl Barley Risotto – Slow Cooker

This is my Vegan take on another of our Pearl Barley Risotto dishes, Slow Cooker Cajun Chicken & Pearl Barley Risotto. With just a few ingredient tweaks and still using a slow cooker, we have a fantastic Vegan Curried Chickpea & Pearl Barley Risotto which is creamy, full of flavour and worthy of any dinner table. Using pearl barley is much healthier than using traditional risotto rice types such as Arborio rice, Carnaroli or the shorter-grain risotto rice, Vialone Niro but luckily,…

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Slow Cooker Cajun Chicken & Pearl Barley Risotto

It is no secret that I am a true lover of all types of risotto and this Slow Cooker Cajun Chicken & Pearl Barley Risotto is a great way to have a fantastic risotto dish with a pearl barley twist. Using pearl barley is much healthier than using traditional risotto rice types such as Arborio rice, Carnaroli or the shorter-grain risotto rice, Vialone Niro but luckily, as the barley requires a longer cooking time than traditional risotto rice, the slow…

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Slim-Friendly Mushroom Risotto

When eating a good risotto, it is very easy to feel like it’s a very indulgent dish and usually, it’s with good reason too as risotto is generally made with the finest olive oils, lashings of butter and of course, let’s not forget that good splash or two of good quality white wine. Given those reasons, you would be right to feel that this is not the healthiest dish to be eating if you are on a diet or a…

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Cajun Chicken Olives with Saffron Rice

The chicken in this dish needs a couple of hours to marinate but I did this before I went out for the evening and of course, you can always pre-cook the rice too and re heat in the microwave if required. If you make this dish, please let me know how it went and what you thought or maybe post a couple of pictures. Did you make this recipe? Tag @steveskitchenuk on Instagram and hashtag it #steveskitchenukLike this recipe? Follow us @stevesfoodblog on Pinterest

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Spicy Mixed Beans, Chicken & Brown Rice

With the cost of food rising, I thought I would do a low-cost filling chicken and brown rice dish with loads of flavour. This easy-to-make recipe is made with everyday essentials from a low-cost supermarket, I used Aldi for my ingredients and at a total cost of £2.74 (plus store-cupboard spices) for the whole dish and a fantastic 68p per portion, this is a great dish to cook. For this dish the ingredients you will need are.; 1 tin of…

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