… Grilled Polenta & Porcini Tomato Sauce
Tonight I’m cooking for my friends Andrew and Carol, at their house, after I babysit for them so they can go to parents evening.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a 15 minute meal in someone else’s kitchen. I have never cooked with ready-made polenta before, so this will be interesting.
You whizz up tomatoes and a bunch of other ingredients first to make the tomato sauce. This requires a liquidizer. I have still not bought one. I’ve been managing with my food processor. Today I didn’t really manage. This was quite a liquidy sauce and the food processor was full. There was significant spillage while I was whizzing up the ingredients …
There seemed to be quite a lot of polenta and I couldn’t quite fit it all in my griddle pan, so there were two left over slices. The polenta was a bit hard to cook. A few pieces broke up and I didn’t really get the nice burn lines on the polenta that are in the picture in the book. I think the griddles on my griddle pan are a bit wide and rounded.
Basically I’m beaten by the chicken again. I don’t know if it’s that I’m not flattening it enough when I beat it with the rolling pin. But it wasn’t cooked through in time.
The meal took a bit longer than it should have. It certainty didn’t look as tidy as Jamie’s, but it did taste good.
Anyway it looks like I’ll be buying myself a liquidizer and a new griddle pan in the near future.
Who with: Andrew and Carol
How long: Twenty minutes and fourteen seconds
