How to Make Favorite Polenta Beef Casserole

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

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook polenta beef casserole using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Polenta Beef Casserole:

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