Spinach Risotto - Greek style

Written By hollie wildëthorn

Ingredients:

  • One bunch silverbeet, remove storks or English spinach include storks, washed and chopped

  • 1⁄2 cup olive oil

  • 1 cup chopped spring onions

  • 1 red onion, chopped or 1 small leek

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 3/4 cup rice Arborio or short-grain rice is best

  • lemon juice

  • 2 tablespoons fresh dill or parsley

  • 3 cups water

  • Salt and fresh ground black pepper

  • Serve sprinkled with fetta cheese or Parmesan cheese

Method:

Place oil into a saucepan and warm. Add onion, spring onion, leek and garlic and gently stir till golden colour emerges. Add the chopped spinach, stir and mix together with a little boiled water till spinach just wilts. Add salt, pepper and lemon juice with the cup and a half of rice. Mix well. Continue stirring so as not to stick and then add half cup by half cup of water, preferably boiled in jug, and keep

stirring and adding water until each time the water has been absorbed by the rice. This way creates a creamy rice. Continue this until rice is fully cooked and liquid is absorbed. Add parsley at end and mix in and sprinkle with fetta or parmesan cheese to serve. Enjoy and happy cooking.

hollie wildëthorn

hollie wildëthorn is a psychotherapist, clinical counsellor, and educator working with trauma, embodiment, rhythm and relational ways of living and healing. This work sits at the intersections of depth psychology, nervous system awareness, land-based wisdom and cyclical models of change, supporting people to reconnect with inner authority, embodied knowing and meaningful rhythm in their lives.

hollie is particularly interested in work that honours complexity rather than quick solutions, and that recognises how trauma, culture, history and place shape the ways we think, feel and relate. the institute for self crafting approach is non-pathologising, non-linear and grounded in the understanding that healing and becoming are processes of relationship rather than correction.

hollie lives and works on Walbunja Yuin Country in regional NSW. Her teaching and practice are informed by land, season and the acknowledgement that the language and systems she works within are inherited rather than neutral. Attending to power, context and humility is an ongoing part of practice.

in 2026, hollie chose to write her name in lowercase as a conscious language practice, reflecting an intention to soften hierarchy, refuse monument-building and speak with greater care within an inherited, colonised tongue.

https://instituteforselfcrafting.com
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