I bought a tube of polenta because I thought I'd try it... but now I don't know what to do with it! Can anyone recommend a use for this polenta?
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Jenniferocious
ANSWERS: 4
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cut some of it. bake it for a few minutes. drip some olive oil and some salt and pepper on it, and ad a slice of mozzerella cheese, tomato and basil.
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I use polenta as a pizza base. Top it with chicken and capsicum and heaps of other yummy pizza toppings.
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put some olive oil in a pan, get it hot fry slices of it in the pan remove to a plate and cover with your fav red sauce. OR slice it, put it in a pan that has some olive oil in the bottom cover with fresh spinach and feta cheese and bake at 375 for about an hour.
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Personally, I like the fried version, but you can just heat it through (bake it) and then serve it beside meats (especially with a juicy sauce) or with a hearty vegetable stew like ratatouille (sp?). If you're feeling adventurous, you could try slicing it as thinly as possible and shallow fry it (or deep fry if you can) in about a quarter to half inch of oil for polenta "chips". If you are feeling penitent, you can make polenta much more cheaply by using "quick-cooking" polenta mixes or even more cheaply (and more penitently) by using good quality yellow grits (if you live in the southeastern US - AKA "the South") and cooking it with about half the water normally called for by traditional grits recipes (you may have to play with the amounts somewhat). Make sure you let it "set" in a tube shape (I usually use some plastic wrap and roll it into a log).
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