You can eat risotto with acid reflux.
While you can eat risotto with acid reflux, it also depends on how the risotto is prepared, which will determine how it's gonna affect you.
When risotto is prepared with simple modifications, it can make the risotto perfectly safe and even soothing for people with acid reflux.
However traditional restaurant style risotto is packed with severe acid reflux triggers.
Traditional standard Italian risotto relies on several ingredients, which relax your lower esophageal sphincter or slow digestion, which both cause stomach acid to creep up into your esophagus.
The high acidity of the wine that is used at the beginning of cooking the risotto to deglaze the pan easily irritates sensitive stomachs.
And classic risotto recipes also require that you stir in large amounts of butter as well as Parmesan at the end.
And high fat foods can also delay stomach emptying and increase pressure and triggers for acid reflux.
And garlic and onions are also standard aromatics for risotto, but they are also very notorious for triggering intense heartburn.
To make risotto so that it does not trigger acid reflux, you should swap out the problematic ingredients for some gut friendly ingredients.
Swap out the wine for broth instead in the risotto and completely skip using the white wine.
Instead use a low sodium, low fat chicken broth or vegetable broth to cook the rice in for risotto, and ensure that the commercial broth doesn't secretly contain any onion powder or garlic powder.
And eliminate the heavy butter and instead use a tiny amount of olive oil, (around 1 tablespoon) to toast the rice.
And skip the heavy cheese entirely or use a very minimal sprinkle of a lower fat cheese if tolerated.
You can also bulk up the risotto dish by using comforting, low acid ingredients, like creamy butternut squash puree, which mimics the creaminess of dairy.
You can also add some mushrooms, zucchini or lean proteins like chicken breast or shrimp.
And although the white Arborio rice is standard for risotto and generally easy to digest during a flare up of acid reflux, using short grain brown rice provides you with extra fiber, which also helps keep the digestive tract moving steadily.