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Mushroom and Marsala Casserole with Polenta Crust

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TOTAL TIME: 1 hr
Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 45 min
 
YIELD: 4 servings
LEVEL: Easy

ingredients

  • Handful dried porcini or mixed mushrooms
  • 1/4 cup EVOO
  • 1 pound portobello mushroom caps, gills scraped and caps sliced
  • 8 ounces mixed fresh mushrooms, sliced
  • 4 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 2 to 3 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves stripped and finely chopped
  • A few sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped and finely chopped
  • 1 carrot, grated or finely chopped
  • 1 onion, chopped
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Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Cover the dried mushrooms with about 2 cups water in a small pot. Bring to boil, then reduce the heat and simmer to reconstitute them.

Meanwhile, heat the EVOO in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the portobello and mixed fresh mushrooms and cook until darkened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Add the garlic, rosemary, thyme, carrots and onions, and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, 7 to 8 minutes. Add the tomato paste and stir 1 minute. Add the Marsala and deglaze the pan, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom. Add the soaked dried mushrooms and most of the cooking broth, leaving behind the last few spoonfuls as grit may settle there. Transfer the stew to a 10 to 12-inch casserole dish.

Heat the milk and 1 1/2 cups water to a simmer in a large saucepan. Whisk in the polenta and cook, whisking, until thickened. Remove from the heat while the polenta is still pourable and stir in the butter, Parmesan and salt and pepper to taste.

Pour the polenta over the mushrooms in the casserole dish. Top with the smoked cheese and sprinkle with parsley.

Cover the casserole with foil and bake for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake until golden and bubbly on top, 15 to 20 more minutes.

Cook's Note: If you are not serving the casserole immediately, assemble it but do not bake. Cool, then store in the refrigerator. Bake as directed before serving.

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  • on February 22, 2012

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    This definitely took more than an hour to prepare! But it was good. I used smoked Gruyere cheese instead of provolone and used a mix of portobellas, oyster, and shitake mushrooms. The previous reviewer mentioned the recipe being too wet, so I only used as much of the mushroom broth as looked "right" to me and it turned out fine. The recipe says it makes four servings, but you'd have to be really hungry to eat that much. The flavors are really concentrated, so a little goes a long way! We will probably actually get about nine servings out of this recipe. I'm doing WW so I plugged the recipe in the recipe builder and with nine servings it comes out to 9 points per serving.

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  • on February 01, 2012

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    It was tasty enough, but way too wet! I think next time I'll add in the reconstituted mushrooms and save the resulting mushroom stock for another recipe.

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  • on September 25, 2011

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    My family is not a big fan of polenta so I topped this with 4 cheese mashed potatos. Wonderful.

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