Nonna Irene’s sausage stew with soft polenta
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If it’s an Italian nona’s recipe, you know that it shall be three things: delicious; comforting and served in a quantity that far exceeds the capacity of ones stomach. This stew served atop a bed of creamy polenta very much hits that mark!
Ingredients
Serves 6
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¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
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4 garlic cloves, skin on, bashed with the back of a knife
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10-12 pork and fennel sausages, cut into 3 cm pieces
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10-12 pork spareribs
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5 oz red wine
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2 14 oz canned tomatoes
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2–3 tsp salt flakes
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1–2 bay leaves
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freshly grated parmesan, freshly ground black pepper and chilli oil, to serve
Polenta
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17.5 oz coarse polenta
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salt flakes, to taste