EASY Risotto with Marinara Sauce

Easy Risotto with Marinara Sauce is a simple dish made with cooked rice mixed with fresh marinara sauce It’s a nice change from serving traditional pasta with tomato sauce. It is quick and easy, and mouthwatering-delicious.

 

An Easy Risotto Recipe…

These days everyone needs a dish that’s quick and easy to make for dinner. Right?!  Instead of Arborio rice, we decided to use long-grain rice. But when it’s topped with fresh tomato sauce, this dish is mouth-watering!

Cooking up this easy risotto with a marinara sauce is a no-fuss meal, ideal for 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 easier 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.

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:

For our mom’s rice with marinara sauce recipe, you will need the following 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
• fresh parsley, or basil as garnish

How to Make Easy Risotto with Marinara Sauce?

If you never made a dish like this before? No worries, it is relatively easy. Once you cook the rice, the only thing to do is add some tomato sauce to it, mix it well, then serve with extra sauce on top.

1. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepot.  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 in pasta bowls.  Spoon some additional (pre-heated) sauce on top.

3. Garnish with some chopped parsley and serve.  Serve with grated Parmigiano at the table. Serves 2 to 4

Craving More Italian Comfort Food?

Then try some of these recipes from 2 Sisters Recipes:

• 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)

A Quick Dish for Dinner

As kids growing up, comfort food to us was having either pasta or risotto for dinner EVERY night.  And this risotto with sauce was one of those dishes.  

Even though mom used the long-grain rice, instead of Arborio rice, she felt it was faster to make it and to get it to the table.  With mom’s quick marinara sauce already made, or your favorite jarred sauce,  you can whip up this dish in a matter of minutes. 

Just cook or steam your favorite long-grain rice, top it with some marinara sauce and serve! It’s that easy! Still today, our kids enjoy eating risotto no matter how I make it – they LOVE it!

ENJOY!!

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Happy Cooking!!  😉

Thanks for stopping by!  

xo anna and liz