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Buckwheat Polenta with Roasted Vegetables, Blue Cheese, Pine nuts and Thyme

November 18, 2018

This is a trans-seasonal dish, gluten free, vegetarian but predominately, a nourishing winter dish is perfect to warm hands, feet and heart. The addition of buckwheat flour to polenta gives it a delicious smoky earth flavour and adds to the nutrition level of this dish. Rich in fibre and silica, gluten free buckwheat contain rutin, a bioflavonoid that is know to increase blood circulation and reduce high blood pressure.


Ingredients

(Serves 4)

2 field mushrooms

8 Brussels sprouts, trimmed & halved

2 med carrots, thickly sliced

2 sml parsnips, thinly sliced

4 baby turnips, quartered

2 sprigs fresh thyme

¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

salt flakes & freshly cracked black pepper

125 g coarse polenta

60 g buckwheat flour

1tsp salt

1 litre full cream milk

50 g unsalted butter

150 g creamy blue cheese, crumbled

1 tbsp pine nuts

50 g + extra Parmesan, freshly grated

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200˚C.
  2. Brush a baking tray with a little of the olive oil. Place the field mushrooms gill side up on the tray and place the other vegetables evenly around. Strip the thyme sprigs over the vegetables, season and drizzle with the remaining olive oil before roasting in the oven for 25 minutes until caramelized.
  3. While the vegies are roasting, bring the milk to a simmer in a large heavy-based saucepan.
  4. Combine the polenta, buckwheat flour and salt.
  5. Remove the saucepan from the heat and slowly pour the polenta mix into the hot milk while whisking. Place back on a low heat with a simmer pad and cook for 20 minutes, stirring regularly with a wooden spoon to prevent burning.
  6. Stir through the unsalted butter and 50 g Parmesan.
  7. Thickly slice the field mushrooms and toss through the vegetables.
  8. Serve the soft polenta topped with the vegetables and evenly garnish with the blue cheese, pine nuts, extra grated parmesan and freshly cracked black pepper.

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