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Polenta Pie

 

It’s the last of our last of our "Around The World for £4 or Less" recipes. So we’ve been to Zambia. This is not quite the recipe we expected, but we couldn’t find Crocodile meat locally within budget!

Ingredients:-

300g Polenta
350ml of Stock
100g Margarine
1 large Onion, sliced
1 clove of Garlic, minced
225g cooked minced Beef,  mixed vegetables (Other options in the recipe were cubed Chicken, Lentils etc.)
1 tbsp on Flour
A Handful of chopped fresh Coriander
½ tsp dried Basil
Juice of a Lemon
Salt and Pepper
Oil

Method:-

(1) Add the Stock to 350ml of water and bring to the boil.
(2) In a bowl add a little of the Stock at a time to the Polenta and stir or whisk making sure there are no lumps.
(3) Reserve a little of the Stock.
(4) Return the Polenta to a pan and let it sit to absorb the liquid.
(5) Prepare and chop the vegetables into bite sized pieces.
(6) Fry the Onions and Garlic with a little Oil and Margarine.
(7) Add the meat and fry until browned.
(8) Add the vegetables and fry until they still have a little bite. We used Potatoes Swede Carrots and Peas.
(9) Add the remaining Stock, Flour, chopped Coriander, dried Basil, and Lemon Juice.
(10) Season with Salt & Pepper and simmer gently.
(11) Grease an oven proof dish and add 2/3 of the Polenta to the bottom and bake for 10 minutes at 180c
(12) Above this add the vegetable and meat mix.
(13) Add the remaining Polenta and run a fork on the top into lines.
(14) Return to the oven and bake for 30 minutes at 180c.

We served ours with a Gluten free Bread crumbed vegetable tray bake.

 

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This recipe was supposed to be sufficient for four. Actually you could easily serve six substantial portions. So you might want to reduce the ingredient quantities!
 
Ingredients:-
 
4 Chicken thighs
1 Cup of frozen Peas
1 cup of Basmati Rice
2 tbs Oil
2 Carrots, cut into batons
1/3 Leek, cut into chunks
1 tin Chopped Tomatoes
1 large Onion
5 cloves of Garlic, quartered
1 bunch of Parsley, chopped 
2 bullet Chillies, sliced
1 tbs Salt
½ tbs Black Pepper
1 tbs Curry powder
1 tbs Chilli powder
1 Bouquet Garni
1 small Red Bell Pepper, sliced
1 Lime cut into wedges
 
Method:-
 
(1) Add all the ingredients except the Rice, Bell Pepper and Peas to a large pan with water and bring to the boil.
(2) Simmer for 30 minutes.
(3) Remove the Chicken and allow to cool.
(4) Strain the stock from the other cooked ingredients and set aside.
(5) Cut the cooked Chicken from the bone into rough cubes.
(6) In a frying pan add the Oil and Rice and fry until the rice has taken on a little colour.
(7) Add the stock,  frozen Peas and Red Bell Pepper.
(8) Bring to the boil and then simmer and stir until the Rice is cooked and has absorbed most of the Stock.
(9) Add the vegetables and remove the Bouquet Garni.
(10) Simmer until heated through.
(11) Add the Chicken and stir until evenly heated.
 
Serve garnished with chopped Parsley, sliced Chillies and Lime wedges.
 

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