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Polenta with Sage
Latest post from MARKSVEGPLOT – a blog about food and gardening in England”
There’s not much to harvest in my garden at present, but I can usually be sure of finding a few herbs when I need them. I have, for instance, several Sage plants dotted around. One of them is very “mature” now and has sprawled out from the border into the shingle.
During the Winter it doesn’t look very impressive. It dies down a lot and its woody stems act as a trap for all the fallen leaves from the nearby Bronze Maple tree. Soon it will put on a lot of new leaf, and by late Spring it will (if it performs as well as it usually does) be lush and bushy again.
But even now, if you choose carefully, you can find plenty of fresh young leaves, like these:
I wanted some Sage to go in these Polenta Chips I was making. I made the polenta in what has become my usual way, by mixing it into a paste with cold water before cooking it. Along with my Sage, I also added-in some butter, some Parmesan cheese (which I grated) and some chilli flakes.
When the polenta was cooked I tipped it out onto a greased plate and put into the fridge to chill.
When the polenta was completely cold I cut it into “chips”.
At the appropriate moment I fried the chips in vegetable oil, making sure to get the frying-pan very hot so that they would go nice and crispy.
Here’s the finished thing:
So what started out as just a few leaves from a bedraggled Sage plant led to a plateful of total yumminess, because those polenta chips were absolutely wonderful – crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, and tasty too. We ate them with a meal based on Broccoli and Gorgonzola pancakes, which I shall write about in a day or two.
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2013-03-03 09:02:37
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