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Basic Italian polenta with sweet potato  Rate Recipe
Let chef Dale show you the secrets to Italian cuisine. Quick and easy, this dish is sure to impress!
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3 onions chopped
3 cloves crushed garlic
2 tbsp olive oil
3 cups vegetable stock or 4 cups if you want soft Polenta
1-cup Polenta (corn meal)
200gm semi dried tomato minced
1 thinly sliced sweet potato roasted for 20 minutes @220
1 cup grated pecorino cheese  
½ cup chopped Italian parsley
In a heavy based saucepan caramelise onion and garlic in olive oil until fragrant.  Add stock and allow simmering on low heat.  Drizzle & stir in polenta slowly until the polenta starts to thicken to a mash consistency.  Stir in tomato, roasted sweet potato, cheese and parsley and allow to rest for 10 minutes.  Line a cake tin with olive oil and pour in hot polenta.  Allow the polenta to just set to a mash potato consistency.

Cut wedge slices of polenta; grill them until outside is crispy,

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