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Romantic Dinner #4
Corn polenta with parmesan and
Fried mushrooms
Take out of the fridge and kitchen cabinet the products you will need: corn meal or corn cereal, milk (take 1,5 glass for 1 person), butter, salt, parmesan cheese (a handful of grated cheese per person), mushrooms (take 5 medium-size mushrooms for 1 person), onions (1 onion for 2 people), olive oil, tomato juice (2 min)
Pour the milk into a saucepan and put it on fire (1 min)
Put a frying pan on fire too, while it is getting hot, peel and cut the onions (2 min)
Put 3 tablespoon of olive oil and the onions into the frying pan, stir it occasionally with a wooden tablespoon (1 min)
Wash the mushrooms, cut them by halves and then slice the halves (3 min)
(!) Tip: keep an eye on milk all the time and see the moment when it is beginning to boil.
The onions should already turn brown, if so, add mushrooms to the frying pan. If not, wait a bit. After you added mushrooms, stir them carefully (2-4 min)
Grate Parmesan so that you get a handful of it for each person (4 min)
(!) Tip: it is not necessary to grate the cheese, you can just cut it into small pieces.
When the milk begins to boil, reduce heat and put corn meal or corn cereal inside placing a handful of corn for each person, stir it slowly for a few minutes (5 min).
(!) Tip: the time of cooking palenta and its taste will depend greatly on corn meal, if it is powder-like, it will be very quick, 5 min, if it is bigger, it may take about 15-20 min,
Add salt to the palenta and then to mushrooms.
Taste carefully, if the mushrooms are ready (1 min)
Let the polenta boil at a small heat, in the meanwhile lay the table, putting the tablecloth, crockery, cutlery, large dish, glasses and tomato juice (3 min)
Check the taste of palenta, add more salt if necessary (1 min)
When you feel that it is ready, add a piece of butter and Parmesan, stir everything, let it boil and melt for one more minute while stirring (2 min)
Put polenta into a large dish, decorate it with fried mushrooms (1 min)
Time needed: 30 minutes
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