Italian Food: Polenta Con Ragù Di Funghi Great Mushroom Recipes

Italian Food

 

 

This week I am back to making some Italian food for you my loyal readers and Youtube subscribers. I am going to make one of my favorit mushroom recipes today. I am still getting bombarded with requests for Malay cuisine and I promise to get back to it ASAP! I am just trying to make dishes right now that I can make with the things I have on hand here in my house because I am so well stocked that sometimes I forget just how well stocked I am and then I run the chance of things going bad and I don't like to waste money that way.

So I went looking around my pantries this week and I found some polenta which is a favorite Italian food of mine and I also found some dried shitake mushrooms which I keep on hand quite often along with dried porcini mushrooms as well. I was seeing something forming! I love mushroom recipes!  I also had some tomato paste and all the herbs and spices I needed to make some Italian food. The only thing I really had to buy this week was mushrooms. So I just got back in the door and I am writing this post and I came back with one pound of baby portobello mushrooms and some white button mushrooms to make one of my favorite mushrooms recipes and that is mushroom ragu! Polenta Con Ragù Di Funghi! In other words polenta with mushroom ragu! This is simple Italian food at it's best and one of the easiest mushroom recipes that I know how to make and it is delicious!

I mean lets look at some facts. Some of the best known dishes in the world are actually peasant foods from the rural areas of their respective countries. Polenta isn't a rich man's dish in Italy and neither is mushrooms unless you get into the tuffles both black and white and then you are talking BIG MONEY! The fact is that when it comes to Italian food many of the dishes that are world famous and known started out as humble working man's food.  I love mushrooms and I love making mushroom recipes and this dish of polenta and mushroom ragu is one of my best and favorites.

Now as far as mushroom recipes are concerned  you can make this dish as strictly vegetarian by just making the mushroom ragu and then making the polenta and that's fine! I add a light touch of either bacon or Italian sausage to the mix to add a level of flavor that you usually don't get in this dish and it's wonderful! So if you love Italian food and you love mushrooms and mushroom recipes then I urge you to make this dish and make it your own either vegetarian or not just make it your own and I promise you that you will just love it as much as I do. Enjoy the video!

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