Fennel, Mushroom, Olive Together With Beef Ragout Over Polenta

Ingredients:

for the ragout:

1 1/2 lb crimini mushrooms, sliced
two bulbs fennel, sliced into half-moons
1 reddish onion, sliced into half-moons
two cloves garlic, sliced
1 1/4 lb cubed sirloin or stew beef
superfine flour (like Wondra)
quart beef stock
1/4 loving cup (drained) kalamata olives
1 tablespoon coarse herbs de Provence
1/4 loving cup chopped parsley
salt
freshly basis dark pepper



for the polenta:
vi cups beef stock or chicken stock
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
two cups yellowish stone-ground (polenta) grits
1/4 loving cup grated Parmesan
salt
freshly basis dark pepper

Directions:

for the ragout:

In a medium heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven, estrus simply about oil. Add the mushrooms, fennel, onion, together with garlic together with saute until good cooked down. The onions together with fennel should last close caramelized. Sprinkle the beef amongst flour together with stir it into the vegetables, browning the cubes on each side. Add the stock until the meat is nearly covered (may direct maintain stock leftover) together with add together the olive together with spices. Stir together with simmer, covered for 1 1/2-2 hrs or until the meat is tender. Remove the lid, stir inward the parsley together with simmer until the liquid has reduced together with the stew is quite thick if needed.


for the polenta:

In a medium pot, convey the stock together with the bay leafage to a boil. Add the polenta/grits, butter, together with fossil oil together with thus stir continually for almost 10 minutes or until all the broth is absorbed. Remove from the heat, fish out the bay leafage together with stir inward the cheese together with spices--go calorie-free on the tabular array salt due to the olives inward the ragout.



Divide the polenta upwards onto 4-6 serving dishes, transcend amongst ragout. Serve immediately.

My thoughts:

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