Polenta with Ground Beef
Polenta with Ground Beef

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, polenta with ground beef. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sliced polenta on the bottom and a spoonful of pesto or olive tapenade on top add a gourmet angle to this slow-simmered beef recipe. In a large skillet, cook ground beef until brown. For ground beef, keep refrigerated and use within one to two days.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook polenta with ground beef using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Polenta with Ground Beef:
  1. Get 1 lb Ground beef
  2. Prepare 2 tsp salt
  3. Make ready 1 3/4 cup yellow corn meal
  4. Make ready 1 cube beef boullion
  5. Prepare 1/3 cup sofrito (I use frozen goya and use 1/3 cup for a decent amount of flavor)
  6. Prepare 1 Tomato sauce (eyeball it. depends how soupy you want it)

Unrelated to polenta and all that is wonderful about braised beef ragu, I want to say one more thing The beef is tender, the polenta is semi-firm and perfectly textured, and the specks of bright green parsley are pritty to look at. Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. Next add in the ground beef and cook until no longer pink, then drain off the fat. Add in Italian seasoning and both of the tomato sauces Serve crispy polenta with a few spoonfuls of the beef and mushroom ragu over top.

Instructions to make Polenta with Ground Beef:
  1. Bring 6 cups of water to a boil. Then add 2 teaspoons of salt.
  2. While water is boiling, In a separate pan, brown the ground beef. Then drain. Add sofrito, crushed beef bullion cube, and tomato sauce. Let simmer for about 10 minutes.
  3. Gradually wish in the cornmeal into the boiling water then reduce heat to low. Cook until the mixture thickens, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. (I can usually tell it's done when all the polenta comes off the pan together when I'm stirring it.) Once done, turn off the heat and add the butter letting it melt while stirring polenta.
  4. I usually serve the ground beef over the polenta. Enjoy!

Sprinkle with crumbled Parmesan, pepper flakes and a few fresh basil leaves. Also substituted ground bison for ground beef and added more red pepper flakes for a kick. Make the Meatballs: In a small skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. I sauteed the ground beef with fresh garlic skipped the tomato sauce and added fresh herbs and mushrooms to the pasta sauce. I couldn't find cottage cheese with chives so I added some fresh chives basil and parsley to the cottage cheese (yummy).

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