Polenta with black truffle
 
 
INGREDIENTS (serves 6-8 portions)
 
  • Polenta meal, long cooking, 300 g
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • Rosemary, a few branches
  • Garlic, 2 cloves, sliced
  • Anchovy fillets, packed in salt, 6-8
  • Sheep cheese, like a local “tòma”, grated, 100 g
  • Black truffle, peeled, 100 g
  • Water, 1 ½ litre
  • Salt
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    PREPARATION
     
  • Heat oil in a deep pot and brown garlic and rosemary just to flavour the oil – discard
  • Add water (1 ½ l) to aromatized oil, salt to taste and bring to a boil
  • Let the polenta meal “rain” slowly into the boiling water
  • Cook over low heat and stir continuously
  • Add anchovy fillets and grated “tòma”
  • Once thick, remove polenta from the burners and add the black truffle butter, stirring carefully – serve very hot
  • Black truffle butter: peel and mince black truffle and combine with double its amount of butter
  • The truffle butter can be frozen and used to flavour many other dishes, like spinach and ricotta-cheese ravioli…
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