Ready polenta and Porcini sauce
Ready polenta and Porcini sauce
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 ready polenta, 200g of porcini mushrooms, extra virgin olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic, 50g of grated cheese, ½ glass of white wine, fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
Method
In a saucepan warm up 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with the cloves of garlic finely minced, add the porcini mushrooms cut into pieces, and stir.
Then pour the white wine on the porcini mushrooms and let it steam.
Add some fine sea salt to taste and let it cook over low heat, covered, for at least 15 minutes.
In the meantime, in another saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the porcini sauce.
Dust the polenta with the grated cheese and some fresh ground pepper to taste.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends or family.
Ready Polenta and anchovies
Ready Polenta and anchovies
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 of ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, extra virgin olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic, 70g of flat fillets anchovies (anchovies can), fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
Method
In a saucepan warm up 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with the cloves of garlic finely minced, add the anchovies cut into pieces and stir.
In the meantime, in another saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the anchovies sauce. This is the traditional way to serve the polenta in Italy.
Dust the polenta with some fresh ground pepper to taste.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends or family.
If you prefer, you can pour the polenta in every single dish, garnish and serve.
Ready Polenta and Black Truffles
Ready Polenta and Black Truffles
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 of ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, extra virgin olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic, 50g of black truffles (or 150g of truffle sauce), fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
Method
In a saucepan prepare a “soffritto” that is: put 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with the cloves of garlic finely minced and warm it up for 2 minutes, then add the black truffles cut into thin slices.
In the meantime, in another saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the truffle slices and the “soffritto”.
Dust the polenta with some fresh ground pepper to taste.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends or family.
This is the traditional way to serve the polenta in Italy.
If you prefer, you can pour the polenta in every single dish, garnish with the truffle slices and serve.
If you do not have the black truffles, you can use a truffle sauce, to garnish every polenta dish.
Ready Polenta with Ragù
Ready Polenta with Ragù
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 of ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, extra virgin olive oil, 4 cloves of garlic, fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper, 1 medium onion, 1 carrot, 1/2 celery stalk, 500g of minced meat (pork or beef), 1 sausage opened (optional), 1 peeled tomatoes can (250g), ½ glass of red wine, ½ teaspoon of parsley finely diced.
Method
In order to prepare a delicious ragù chop the onion, the carrot and the celery stalk together, then in a saucepan put 7 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and warm up the chopped onion, the celery and the carrot, until soft (3 minutes).
Add the 4 cloves of garlic, the minced meat and one opened sausage, season with 2 teaspoons of fine sea salt and some fresh ground pepper to taste, then allow them to cook until the meat is quite dry (10 minutes). Add the red wine and let it evaporate. Finally, add the tomatoes and break them up with a wooden spoon. Season with 3 or 4 teaspoon of fine sea salt and stir. Bring to the boil and let it cook about one hour. Add some hot water if too dry. Stir occasionally. Dust with the parsley at the end.
In another saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the ragù.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends or family.
This is the traditional way to serve the polenta in Italy.
If you prefer, you can pour the polenta in every single dish, garnish with the ragù and serve.
Ready Polenta with 4 Cheeses
Ready Polenta with 4 Cheeses
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 of ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper, 50g Mozzarella cut into thin slices, 50g Ricotta, 25g grated Parmesan, 50g Gorgonzola cut into slices (you can, of course, vary the cheeses, as you prefer)
Method
In a saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3-5 minutes, stirring continuously. Add some hot water if too dry.
Finally, pour the polenta in every dish, smooth it and scatter the Ricotta over, then garnish with the Mozzarella and Gorgonzola slices and, finally, scatter the Parmesan over.
Bake every dish in a microwave for a few minutes, until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling.
Dust with some fresh black pepper and serve.
Ready Polenta with dried Tomatoes and spicy Olives
Ready Polenta with dried Tomatoes and spicy Olives
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 of ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, 30g of pitted black olives, 30g of pitted green olives, 60g of pitted spicy olives, (150g or) 1 can of dried spicy tomatoes, fine sea salt, 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.
Method
Cut the tomatoes into strips, cut all the olives into pieces and put them in a bowl, season with the extra virgin olive oil and mix. Dust with some fresh pepper to taste.
In the meantime, in a saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the tomatoes and olives mix. Sprinkle with extra virgin olive oil.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends.
This is the traditional way to serve the polenta in Italy.
If you prefer, you can pour the polenta in every single dish, smooth it, garnish with the tomatoes and olives mix and serve.
Ready Polenta with Gorgonzola and Radicchio (chicory)
Ready Polenta with Gorgonzola and Radicchio (chicory)
Ingredients for 4 people
250g Casale1485 ready Polenta, 0,75 litre of hot water, extra virgin olive oil, 1 onion, ½ glass of white wine, 200g of radicchio (chicory), 150g of Gorgonzola (or your favourite Italian cheese), fine sea salt, fresh ground pepper.
Method
In a saucepan put 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with the onion finely minced and warm it up for 2 minutes, then add the radicchio cut into strips and let it cook for at least 5 minutes, until soft. Finally pour the white wine and let it evaporate.
In the meantime, in another saucepan, put 0,75 litre of water and a tablespoon of fine sea salt, warm it up over low heat for 10 minutes, then add the polenta flour; let it cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
Finally, pour the polenta on a large chopping board, smooth it and garnish with the radicchio and the sauce. Cut the gorgonzola into small pieces and scatter them over the polenta.
Dust the polenta with some fresh ground pepper to taste.
Put the chopping board at the centre of the table and now share with your friends or family.
This is the traditional way to serve the polenta in Italy.
If you prefer, you can pour the polenta in every single dish, garnish with the radicchio sauce and the gorgonzola pieces, and serve.