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Creamy Goat Cheese Polenta with Roasted Figs Tart Cherries and Fried Rosemary

A few weeks back I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a cherry immersion event in Traverse City, Michigan with a handful of other food bloggers and experts in the food industry to learn everything there is to know about tart cherries – an industry I knew very little about.

Category Vegetarian

Recipe Ingredients

  1 teaspoon oil, divided
  6 figs, halved
  3 cups water
  1½ cups whole milk
  1¾ teaspoons salt, divided
  1 cup yellow cornmeal
  3 tablespoons butter, divided
  4 ounces goat cheese
  ¼ cup finely diced onion
  1 large garlic clove, minced
  1 cup dried tart cherries
  ¼ cup tart cherry concentrate
  1 cup red wine (merlot, shiraz or pinot noir will work nicely)
  1 teaspoon sugar

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