Sugar-Free Pumpkin Risotto

After making mini pumpkin muffins, I had a little pumpkin left โ so I turned it into this creamy, healthy risotto.
Itโs mild, naturally sweet, and perfect for both kids and adults.
Made with milk instead of cream, it feels light yet comforting.
๋จํธ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋๋จธํ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ๋จ์ ๋จํธ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ๋จํธ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ์กฐ๋์์.
์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋จ๋ง๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ ์ด๋ฅธ๊น์ง ํจ๊ป ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํฌ๋ฆผ ๋์ ์ฐ์ ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ถ๋ด ์์ด ๋ด๋ฐฑํด์.
๐ฅฃ Ingredients | ์ฌ๋ฃ

150g steamed pumpkin (์ฐ ๋จํธ๋ฐ 150g)
*In Korea, we often use ๋จํธ๋ฐ (danhobak), a type of [Kabocha squash] thatโs naturally sweet and creamy. If youโre in the U.S., you can replace it with [butternut squash] or any sweet pumpkin variety.
1 bowl cooked rice (๋ฐฅ 1๊ณต๊ธฐ)
1 cup milk or soy milk (์ฐ์ ๋๋ ๋์ 1์ปต)
1/4 onion, finely chopped (์ํ 1/4๊ฐ, ์๊ฒ ๋ค์ง ๊ฒ)
1 tbsp olive oil (์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธ์ 1ํฐ์ )
Pinch of salt (์๊ธ ์ฝ๊ฐ, ์ ํ)
Parmesan cheese (optional, ํ๋ฅด๋ฉ์ฐ ์น์ฆ ์ฝ๊ฐ)
๐ณ Instructions | ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ

- Heat olive oil in a pan and sautรฉ chopped onion until translucent.
์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธ์ ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ํฌ๋ช ํด์ง ๋๊น์ง ๋ณถ์์. - Add steamed pumpkin and mash gently with a spoon.
์ฐ ๋จํธ๋ฐ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ฃผ๊ฑฑ์ผ๋ก ์ผ๊นจ๋ฉฐ ์์ด์. - Add rice and mix evenly.
๋ฐฅ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ์์ด์. - Pour in milk and cook over low heat while stirring until thickened.
์ฐ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ค์ฝ๋ถ์์ ๊ฑธ์ญํด์ง ๋๊น์ง ์ ์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋์ ๋๋ค. - Adjust seasoning with salt or cheese if desired.
๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ด์์.
โจ Tips | ๋ง๋ค ๋ ํ
- Pumpkin Moisture Control: If the pumpkin is watery, drain slightly before using to keep texture creamy, not soupy.
๋จํธ๋ฐ์ด ๋๋ฌด ๋ฌฝ์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์ง ๋นผ ์ฃผ์ธ์. ์ง๊ฐ์ด ํจ์ฌ ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํด์ ธ์. - Rice Texture: Slightly firm rice works best; overcooked rice can become mushy.
๋๋ฌด ํผ์ง ๋ฐฅ๋ณด๋จ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๊ผฌ๋คํ ๋ฐฅ์ด ์๊ฐ์ด ์ข์์. - Richer Flavor: Mix 1 tsp butter or a bit of cheese at the end for a deeper flavor.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๋ฒํฐ๋ ์น์ฆ๋ฅผ ์ด์ง ๋ฃ์ผ๋ฉด ํ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ์งํด์ง๋๋ค. - Baby Version: Skip salt and cheese; add a little more milk for a softer texture.
์๊ธฐ์ฉ์ ์๊ธยท์น์ฆ๋ฅผ ๋นผ๊ณ ์ฐ์ ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋ฃ์ด ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. - Leftover Idea: Great for using up leftover pumpkin from muffins or soups.
๋จ์ ๋จํธ๋ฐ ํ์ฉ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ก๋ ์ข์์.
โจ Key Points | ํฌ์ธํธ
- Natural Sweetness โ Sweetened only by pumpkinโs natural flavor, no sugar added.
๋จํธ๋ฐ์ ์์ฐ ๋จ๋ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋ฌ์ฝคํด์. - Soft & Creamy Texture โ Smooth and mild, perfect for both kids and adults.
๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์ด์. - Simple Ingredients โ Made with just six basic ingredients.
์ฌ๋ฃ๋ ๋จ 6๊ฐ์ง, ๊ฐ๋จํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์์ด์. - Healthy Comfort Food โ Light but filling without cream or butter.
ํฌ๋ฆผ์ด๋ ๋ฒํฐ ์์ด๋ ๋ ๋ ํ๊ณ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ํ ๋ผ์์.
๐ง Storage | ๋ณด๊ด๋ฒ

- Refrigerate up to 2 days | ๋์ฅ 2์ผ
- Freeze up to 1 week | ๋๋ 1์ฃผ
- Reheat for 30 seconds before serving | ์ ์๋ ์ธ์ง์ 30์ด ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ณต์

When the weather gets chilly, a warm bowl of comfort food feels just right.
A spoonful of this pumpkin risotto fills the room with a cozy, sweet aroma.
Itโs amazing how soft and rich it tastes โ all without any added sugar.
A healthy meal that both kids and adults can enjoy together.
Wishing you a happy table, even without sugar ๐