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I make it and add red pepper and sometimes onion, cut into very small pieces,form it into a cylinder and wrap in seran wrap and chill. I cut into slices so its ready for me to use. My favorite thing is to fry in Pam spray and add a cooked over easy egg on top. DELICIOUS!!!
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RHUBARBPIE
4/12/07 5:34 P
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| I like to cook polenta from scratch and use it under stews or a pot roast, sort of an alternative to rice for soaking up juicy foods. You can buy instant polenta or a slow-cooking kind, or honestly, just use corn meal. Serve it while it's still warm (before it solidifies). You can find recipes at epicurious.com
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| Ooo I made a really good polenta pie last week. In a casserole or pie dish press the polenta down and then top it with roasted veggies and herbs.
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You didn't offend me. I like the conversation as well as the input on recipes, etc.
The instant polenta I bought is made by Dell' Alpe. I got it in my regular grocery store. I made it with chicken stock, butter, Romano and salt & pepper.
It was very good.
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Wow, Geez, didn't mean to offend you!
Were you shopping at a wholefoods type store? Where they would prepare it for you? And if so, was it prepared with chicken, beef, pork, veal or veggie stock or just water? did they add salt and pepper? I wonder how its prepared and I would question the taste.
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I know the difference between cooked polenta and dry, instant polenta.
Where I live it comes in a clear, hard, plastic container not a yellow container and I'm not talking about the polenta that's already cooked that comes in the tube. I imagine there are different brands on the market. When I asked you where you lived, I just thought maybe it was a different brand that someone would be looking for.
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That's the same thing they were talking about, when they mentioned the tubes!
The instant polenta, in the yellow cans, still needs to be cooked. It is not precooked.
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| Hi Chip, Where do you live? I live in Michigan. The instant polenta I found was in a clear plastic container, kind of like you would get from the deli. I found it near the Italian and Spanish/Mexican foods. That's the first time I'd ever seen it.
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lok for the polenta (instant) in the same aisle as the oatmeal, or possibly in the cooking aisle. It is in a little cardboard container that looks like an oatmeal container (the cardboard tube).
It should be yellow.
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| They also do make instant polenta, kind of like instant rice. I find it near the pastas. Add some cheese and green onions, salt and pepper and eat like mashed potatoes.
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ACDYEHARRIS
3/26/07 9:42 P
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| I'm familiar with the tubed polenta and have a couple of good recipes to use it in. What I'm still not sure of are these recipes that call for instant polenta. I can't seem to find something in my grocery store that says that on it. Am I just looking for a cornmeal product that won't say polenta anywhere on the box?
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I use polenta as a "base" for my meal. Mix in a little tomato and basil, for taste and color. After cooking, cool it in a cake pan (9x9) and cut it out with a biscuit cutter to make a nice shape. you can rest porkchops, Chicken breasts or anything on it, or stack things...microgreen salads, veggies...whatever.
Polenta makes a good canvas for your culinary artists paintbrush...it absorbs flavors well...chicken, veg, beef stocks...wines, liquors, aromatic herbs and spices...the list goes on and on!
Do with it as your imagination lets you...the cool thing is, corn meal is cheap...so if you screw up...try again!
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AMARANTHA
3/21/07 11:39 A
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Polenta already formed into a log (you can buy it that way, not sure if you are using this or forming your own "log" ... which you do just by cooking the cornmeal and packing into a can or mold and refrigerating ... the traditional way my mom did it was to spread it on a cookie sheet and cut into triangles) ... can be sliced and topped in any way you like, from pizza toppings to wild mushrooms with parmesan cheese and fresh herbs (which is my favorite kind of topping). You can bake it, fry it, whatever. The uses are limitless, truly.
I like to bake the slices with pizza toppings.
You can also make polenta (or buy the preformed kind) with raisins and add a sweet topping to your slices or just eat cold ... there are probably some recipes on this site and others.
Good luck! :)
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| Polenta sort of stumps me. I can make it and I have bought some as well, but what to do with it once it's made? I did try it as a topping for chili...sort of mixed it in as we ate it..that was not bad. But what else is it good for?
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