Fried polenta slices with pistachio butter and grappa cherries

AUTHOR
Louis Ramirez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 untreated lemon
  • 400 ml Milk
  • 7 TABLESPOONS Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 100 g Polenta
  • 1 glass (370 ml) Sour cherries
  • 1/2 pack Sauce powder "Vanilla flavor
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Grappa
  • 2 discs White bread
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 25 g Pistachio kernels
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp (Fig. 02-05 Icing sugar for dusting)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Oil

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the lemon hot, grate dry and grate the peel thinly. Bring milk, 2 tablespoons of sugar, lemon zest and 1 pinch of salt to the boil. Pull the pot off the stove. Stir in polenta with a whisk. Put the pot back on the stove, stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the polenta boils up. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes at low heat while stirring frequently. Grease a small baking tray or a flat casserole dish (approx. 20 x 30 cm) with oil. Add the porridge and smooth it down. Chill for approx. 1 hour

  2. 2

    Pour the cherries into a sieve, collect the juice in a pot. Remove 4 tablespoons of juice. Boil up the rest of the juice and 4 tbsp. sugar. Stir sauce powder and 4 tbsp. juice until smooth, thicken juice with it, bring to the boil again. Stir in cherries and grappa and chill

  3. 3

    Roughly dice bread and finely chop in the universal chopper and mix with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Whisk the eggs. Cut polenta into 8 strips and turn them one after the other into eggs and breadcrumbs

  4. 4

    Chop the pistachios. Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a pan and roast the pistachios while stirring. Remove the pistachios and wipe the pan with kitchen paper. Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a frying pan and fry the polenta slices for about 6 minutes, turning them over. Arrange the polenta slices, cherries and pistachio butter on plates. (dust picture 02-05 with icing sugar)

  5. 5

    Waiting time approx. 50 minutes

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
520 kcal
CARBS
73 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
12 g

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