Baked Polenta With Roasted Tomatoes, Eggs & Ricotta
- Baked Polenta, eggs, ricotta
- 2 cups leftover polenta
- 4 halves rosted tomatoes
- 4 beautiful eggs
- 1/4 grated ricotta salata
- 3/4 cup fresh ricotta
- 1 + tablespoons olive oil
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- Roasted Tomatoes
- 2 large nice plum tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1 sprig rosemary (small)
- Salt & pepper
- Drizzle olive oil in bottom of oven proof dish
- Prepare polenta according to package (feel free to add a bit more milk, a bit more butter a nice handful of ricotta salata or percorino cheese), if using left over polenta, warm in pan with small amount of milk or stock till creamy, if using polenta in a tube, mash with potato masher first..then warm in pan with milk or stock the end result should be creamy
- pour polenta in to oven proof dish, make little indentations for eggs
- crack eggs into little indentations
- arrange tomatoes around eggs
- dollop ricotta around ( not over egg yolk)
- Sprinkle with Ricotta Salata
- Drizzle with remaining Olive Oil, & lay rosemary branch over top
- Cover with foil ( or if cooking vessel has cover use that)
- Cook in 350 degree over @ 15 - 20 min till whites are set
- remove foil, cover & rosemary sprig & flash under broiler for a minute or two, yolks should be runny..sometimes they are not, which is also ok but not as wonderful
- To serve: Fresh cracked black pepper and really good salt.. and extra drizzle of good olive oil won't hurt neither will torn basil leaves of chopped chives.
- Halve tomatoes and set cut side down in small oven proof dish.
- Drizzle with olive oil, zest, salt & pepper
- set rosemary sprig in pan
- roast at 300 till soft ...maybe 1 hr - 45 or leave over night in gas oven
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/2002-baked-polenta-with-roasted-tomatoes-eggs-ricotta (may not work)