Polenta with Mushrooms
This is a great veggie recipe that can be eaten as lunch or dinner. Even my meat and potatoes husband enjoys it. Grilled polenta is served with mushroom sauce.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 1 litre water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup (125g) polenta
- 1/4 cup (60ml) olive oil
- 500g button mushrooms, sliced
- 1/2 small onion, finely diced
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon diced fresh parsley
Directions
Preparation:10min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:40min
- In a heavy saucepan over high heat bring water to a boil with salt and pepper. Slowly pour in polenta stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Reduce heat to low and cook 20 minutes; stirring frequently as the mixture thickens.
- Using a wet spatula, spoon the polenta mixture 1cm thick onto a sheet of greaseproof paper. Set aside to cool.
- Preheat oven grill. Lightly grease a baking tray.
- Heat oil in a large frypan over high heat. Cook mushrooms, onion, garlic and herbs in the hot oil until mushrooms are tender.
- Cut cooled polenta into squares and place on prepared baking tray. Grill until browned on both sides. Serve with mushroom sauce.
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I can't rate this because I changed way too much from the recipe. Like others who've rated the recipe, I find polenta to be very bland. So while cooking it for this recipe, I added to the water-cornmeal mixture: salt, pepper, minced garlic, ground cumin, whole cumin seeds that I'd toasted in a pan, chile powder, and onion powder. In addition to the mushroom topping in this recipe, I also had a pico de gallo-style topping, and a garlic onion tomato sauce topping. I made a pile of lightly-steamed spinach in the center of each plate, placed several polenta slices on the spinach and garnished them only with a little coarse pepper and salt, and some sprigs of cilantro. Then I made small piles of each type of topping in an array around the polenta so that toppings could be added as prefered by the consumer. This went over really well and got rave reviews - the first time we've had polenta and liked it! - 04 Dec 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This recipe worked great when I doubled it to make 8 servings. I also used some Shittake mushrooms which brought a rich flavor to the sauce. Another tip, it was difficult to transfer the cut polenta from the wax paper since I accidentally cut through the wax paper when I was slicing the squares. The waxpaper stuck to the polenta. So I just lifted it with teh wax paper and flipped it over when I put it on the baking sheet and then peeled off the wax paper. This worked well for me. This is a savory recipe. - 13 Jan 2002 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I liked the simplicity of this meal. The polenta may be used as appetizers. Broiling the polenta until browned gave it an oily flavor which was similar to fried tortilla chips. Baking lightly gave a great flavor. - 10 Jun 2001 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)