POLENTA! Simple and Good! (15 minutes to serve)
Ingredients:
2 ltrs of water
1 tablespoon of cooking salt.
2 coffee mugs of Polenta.
Step 1.
Cook the 2ltrs of water with the 2 tablespoons of salt.
Step 2.
Add 2 cups of polenta and stir (by hand) with an eggbeater (whisk), low temperature (small falme) for 5 to 10 minutes till it thickens up.
Note: the stiring time depends from brand of polenta to the temperature of the stove, gas or electric stove.
Serve with milk or sour cream.
I do not serve with anything anything else. I have seen some people (on the internet) have this as a side dish, instead of mashed potatoes.
This polenta is so called instant polenta and so it is cooked faster. The real polenta from the yellow corn flour will need about 45 minutes to cook and you ll need to mix it all that time. Traditionally is cooked on the open fire in a copper bucket. For mixing it is used special wooden flat spoon. (spatula).
Some kind of polenta similar dish derives already from Roman times. Later polenta is a famous replacement for bread by poor people. In Italy polenta is more known on the North (Friuli Venezia Gulia) in Slovenia was also very common meal. My father is telling me that it was an everyday meal. Dober tek. :)
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is it not a typical italian food?
cause i'm italian and i heard much about polenta..
European.
Where there is corn, there is polenta!
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Any good?
Omg I love polenta... Thanks for sharing..
Polenta and cheese were my comfort food. My parents are from Friuli Venezia Gulia. This is a common dish in that region of Italy. It was the food of the poor because it was cheap to make but now its served in fancy restaurants. :) I tried the premade polenta in the grocery store sold in Texas...not as good as homemade.
awesome