Polenta
From heatherbudapest 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 6
I think polenta is like the ultimate comfort food. While you can buy it pre-made in little tubes or get the instant kind, it is never quite as good as when you make it yourself. You can make it ahead, put it in the fridge for a day or two, and serve it a variety of ways, baked with sauce, grilled, or fried with butter and covered with parmesan cheese.
Ingredients
- 6 cups water shopping list
- 1.5 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 1.5 cups coarse cornmeal shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh-ground pepper shopping list
- cayenne pepper (optional) shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter shopping list
- 1/2 cup grated fresh parmesan cheese (about 1.5 ounces) shopping list
How to make it
- Lightly oil a 9x13 baking dish. Set aside.
- Bring water to rapid boil in a large saucepan. Add the salt, then vigorously whisk in the cornmeal.
- Reduce the heat and cook at a low boil for about 20 to 25 minutes, stirring frequently, until the grains have opened up and the polenta is smooth.
- Remove the pan from the heat; stir in the pepper, a few pinches of cayenne if you're using it, the butter, and the cheese. Pour the hot polenta into the baking dish and set aside to cool.
- For polenta gratin, cut into 12 squares, then cut each square into two triangles.
- Makes 24 polenta triangles; serves 6.
- (From Annie Somerville's Fields of Greens cookbook)
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Oh yes, comfort food for sure.. my mom fixed this allot.. my kids like it fried (after it has set up in the Fridge.. even for breakfast with maple syrup! yummm
shirleyoma
in Cove loved it
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Yes! we make homemade polenta almost just like this. I like the addition of glorious cheese. Hey Shirley we fry ours sometimes too. We also have been known to brush it with a little olive oil and put them on the grill. Try that sometime.Thanks for th...more
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in Algonquin loved it
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Polenta is also a dish that I make, thank you for the recipe. I tend to fry mine and use it as a substitute for potatoes, as in eggs with fried polenta or cooked polenta with stew. I like the addition of cheese thanks again.
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