EASY Risotto with Marinara Sauce

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Easy Risotto with Marinara Sauce is a simple risotto made quickly when you add marinara sauce to it and serve.  It’s a nice change from serving traditional pasta with sauce.  Long grain rice is used instead of Arborio rice or even pasta.  But when it’s topped with fresh tomato sauce, it makes this dish mouth-watering!

 

These days everyone needs a dish that’s quick and easy to make for dinner. Right?! 

Well, this happens to be one of them.  Instead of using Italian Arborio rice, I decided to use my favorite long-grain rice. 

Cooking up an easy risotto with a marinara sauce like this recipe is a no-fuss lunch or dinner when your busy schedule needs a kitchen break! 

A few days ago we posted our favorite recipe for our Mom’s Quick Marinara Sauce.  

When you have marinara sauce already made, it makes our lives so much easy when planning a weekly menu.  So make extra the night before.

Best of all, rice is a healthy combination of protein, vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates which are often the need of the hour, and a tasty dish like this one can give you all that.  

Can We Use Jarred Sauce?

Yes, you can.  Open up a jar of your favorite brand of Marinara sauce or any tomato sauce and stir it into your risotto.  You may want to heat it up first, then stir it into the rice. 

 

EASY Risotto with Marinara Sauce:

• 1 cup Long Grain Rice

• 2 cups of water

• 1 Tbsp. butter or olive oil

• 1/2 tsp. salt

• 2 cups Moms Quick Marinara Sauce

• chopped parsley for garnish

Directions:

1.  In a medium saucepot, bring 2 cups of water to boil.  Add salt, butter, and long grain rice.  Cover and simmer for 20 minutes, until rice is tender.

2.  Remove from the heat and add 1 cup of marinara sauce into the rice.  Stir in the sauce until well combined.  Serve the rice into pasta bowls.  Spoon some additional (pre-heated) sauce on top. Garnish with some chopped parsley and serve.  Serve with grated Parmigiano at the table.

Serves 2 to 4

For More Italian Comfort Food, try these…

• Butternut Squash Risotto with Cheese and Sage

• Creamy Asparagus Risotto

• Risotto con Funghi ( Mushrooms)

• Best Creamy Lemon Risotto with Baby Peas

• Easy Vegetable Risotto

• Spring Risotto with Vegetables (Risotto Primavera)

 

 

 

Yield: 2 to 4

EASY Risotto with Marinara Sauce

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Easy Risotto with Marinara Sauce is a simple risotto made easier when you add marinara sauce to it and serve. It's a nice change from serving traditional pasta with sauce. Long grain rice is used instead of Arborio rice or even pasta.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup Long Grain Rice
• 2 cups of water
• 1 Tbsp. butter or olive oil
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 cups Moms Quick Marinara Sauce
• chopped parsley for garnish

Instructions

1. In a medium saucepot, bring 2 cups of water to boil. Add salt, butter, and long grain rice. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes, until rice is tender.
2. Remove from the heat and add 1 cup of marinara sauce into the rice. Stir in the sauce until well combined.
3. Spoon the rice into pasta bowls. Serve with additional (pre-heated) sauce on top. Garnish with some chopped parsley and serve. Serve with grated Parmigiano at the table.
4. Serves 2 to 4

 

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xo  Anna and Liz