Warm gammon slices with polenta

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4 servings
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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (17)

12.00 gammon — thinly sliced
tomato sauce
4.00 tomatoes — large
1.00 onion — chopped
25.00 ml oil
1.00 garlic — cloves, crushed
25.00 ml tomato paste
salt and freshly ground black pepper
sugar — pinch
125.00 ml wine — red
250.00 ml stock — chicken
maize meal — polenta
1.00 Litres water
250.00 ml maize meal — polenta
25.00 ml fresh chillies — 573
salt and freshly ground black pepper
125.00 ml fresh basil — chopped, extra to garnish
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Method:

Prepare tomato sauce. Skin, seed and chop tomatoes.
Gently cook chopped onion in oil, add chopped tomatoes, garlic, tomato paste, seasoning, wine and chicken stock.
Simmer for 25 minutes and purée in food processor until smooth.
Boil water for polenta, gradually stir in the polenta with a wooden spoon. Simmer occasionally.
Add olive oil, seasoning and chopped basil, then cook for another minute.
Pour into greased muffin tins and leave to cool at room temperature.
Place gammon slices on a baking sheet, moisten with 50 ml tomato sauce, cover with aluminium foil and reheat at 150 ºC for 15 to 20 minutes.
At the same time reheat polenta covered with foil.
Reheat rest of tomato sauce.
Serve gammon slices overlapping in middle of polenta, coat with sauce and garnish with a few basil leaves.



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