Polenta with mushrooms and lentils

Polenta with mushrooms and lentils

www.foodwise.com.au

Once considered peasant food by the Italians, these days we prize polenta for its nutritional value, lack of gluten and versatility.

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Cooking tools:

  • Colander
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Mixing bowl
  • Saucepan
  • Stove
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon
  • Ladle
  • Measuring cup
  • Measuring spoon
  • Spoon
  • Airtight container
  • Refrigerator

Ingredients

  • 8 dried porcini or shiitake mushrooms
  • 3 cups vegetable stock
  • 1 cup fine polenta
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 brown onion, diced
  • 2 celery stalks, diced
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1–2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 cups vegetable stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 cup puy lentils or tiny blue-green lentils, washed
  • 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves or 1 tsp dried thyme
  • sea salt
  • cracked black pepper
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped basil or flatleaf parsley, or 1–2 bay leaves, to garnish

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