Simple Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Polenta Beef Casserole

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, polenta beef casserole. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Polenta Beef Casserole is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Polenta Beef Casserole is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook polenta beef casserole using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Polenta Beef Casserole:

1. Make ready For The Polenta
2. Get water
3. Prepare Green cabbage, shredded
4. Prepare yellow cornmeal
5. Make ready Salt
6. Take For The Mince Beef
7. Make ready drizzle of olive oil
8. Take medium onion, diced
9. Make ready medium carrots, grated
10. Make ready celery stalk, diced
11. Get mince beef
12. Get ground nutmeg
13. Make ready chopped parsley
14. Make ready mixed dried herbs
15. Make ready oxo cube
16. Make ready red wine
17. Prepare tinned tomatos
18. Prepare Salt
19. Get Ground black pepper
20. Take Bechamel Sauce
21. Prepare butter
22. Prepare plain flour
23. Get milk
24. Take Salt
25. Get Ground black pepper
26. Make ready nutmeg
27. Take Grated parmesan cheese, to sprinkle on top

Instructions to make Polenta Beef Casserole:

1. In a saucepan bring to the boil 500ml of water with a pinch of salt. Add the cabbage and boil on medium for about 20 minutes or until cabbage is really soft.
2. In the meantime, heat the olive oil over medium heat-high heat and add the onion, carrots and celery. Sauté until vegetables are soft. Add the beef and season with salt and pepper. Then add the rest of the herbs and spices. Continue to cook until beef is no longer pink. Add in the wine, oxo cube, a splash of water and the tomatoes. Cook for about 45-60 minutes until vegetables and meat are really soft.
3. Mix the cornmeal with about 250ml of water to avoid it clumping together. Reduce the heat to low and add the soaked cornmeal to the cabbage pot, whisk well and continue to cook stirring regularly for about 20-25 minutes until cornmeal mixture has thickened.
4. To make the bechamel sauce, melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and whisk in the flour and cook, stirring continously for about 2 minutes or so until mixture stars to bubble. Add in the milk and continuing to stir until the sauce has thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
5. To assemble, place the polenta into a greased baking tray and spread evenly. Layer with the meat and spread evenly again. Lastly pour over the bechamel sauce and spread over the mince. Sprinkle with the parmasan.
6. Bake for 25-30 minutes at 180c.

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