What is Polenta?

What is Polenta?

What is Polenta?

What is Polenta?

Polenta is a porridge made from cornmeal originally from the Italy. In the stores, you may find quick-cooking polenta, or precooked. It is a corn side dish that you can serve even with a piece of fish or meat.

Is Polenta Healthy?

Is Polenta Healthy?

Without any other ingredients, polenta is considered quite healthy as it is made only from water, some salt and cornmeal.

What polenta is made of?

What polenta is made of?

Polenta is a porridge made from cornmeal. It is made from coarsely-ground yellow corn, but sometimes you can find different recipes using finely-ground yellow or white corn. Beside the cornmeal, you will need a little bit of cheese, butter and milk to make it creamier.

What does it taste like?

What does it taste like?

It has a taste of corn porridge but it is a little bit mild. Because it has a neutral taste, you can serve it near almost anything or you can experiment with adding different ingredients into the recipe.

Polenta vs. Grits

Polenta vs. Grits

The main difference between those two is that polenta is made from flint corn, when for the grits is used dent corn. Also, they differ in texture. Grits are creamier.

How Do you eat it?

How Do you eat it?

You can eat it hot, or to leave it to cool down, then to slice it and to fry on a pan to obtain some delicious sliced snacks.