Polenta
Ingredients
- 2 quarts water
- 1 tbsp salt
- corn meal
- 1 tsp Parmesan cheese
Sauce
- 1 large onion
- ½ clove garlic
- 5 pieces dried mushroom
- a little beef extract
- water
- salt
- paprika
- pinch sugar
- ⅓ tsp vinegar
- flour
Instructions
- Take an iron kettle, put in two quarts water with one tablespoon salt. Heat and before boiling, slowly pour in your corn meal, stirring continuously until you have it very stiff. Put on lid and let boil for an hour or more. Turn out in a pan and keep warm. Later this is turned out on a platter for the table.
- Cut it in pieces of about an inch wide for each plate and on this the following sauce is added with a teaspoon Parmesan cheese added to each piece.
Sauce
- Brown a good sized onion in two tablespoons butter, add ½ clove of garlic, about 5 pieces of dried mushroom, being well soaked in water (use the water also) dissolve a little extract of beef, pouring that into this with a little more water, salt and some paprika—a pinch of sugar and1/3 teaspoon vinegar.
- A little flour to make a nice gravy. This makes it very palatable.
- It takes about ten minutes to cook.
Notes
Serve in gravy bowl—a spoonful on each piece of Polenta. Added to that the grated cheese, is all that is needed for a whole meal. Apple sauce should be served with this dish.
