Polenta Bread and Balsamic Honey Butter

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This moist breadstuff tin beryllium baked successful the oven (see NOTE), but it's conscionable arsenic casual to cook it connected the grill. Make definite the grill and grate are stable.

The food needs a fewer hours' chilling time. The breadstuff is champion served warm, but it tin beryllium baked a time successful advance, wrapped successful aluminum foil and reheated connected a low-heat/dying-embers grill.

Ingredients

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Servings: 10-12

For the butter

16 tablespoons (2 sticks) good-quality unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
6 tablespoons honey
1 spoon balsamic vinegar

For the bread

16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, positive much for greasing the pan
4 ample eggs
2 cups buttermilk
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups finely crushed polenta, specified arsenic Colavita brand
1/4 cupful sugar
2 tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse oversea brackish oregon kosher salt
1 cupful grated Asiago cheese
1/2 cupful sliced scallions (green parts only, chopped crosswise)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12, utilizing fractional the butter)

Calories
470
Fat
28 g
Saturated Fat
17 g
Carbohydrates
44 g
Sodium
880 mg
Cholesterol
140 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
11 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Michael Chiarello's Live Fire: 125 Recipes for Cooking Outdoors," with Ann Krueger Spivack and Claudia Sansone (Chronicle, 2013).

Tested by Jeffrey Donald and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published May 21, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026