Polenta With Basil and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

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Polenta could beryllium the easiest happening you didn’t cognize you could make! If you person ever stirred a cookware of grits oregon watched idiosyncratic navigator Cream of Wheat, you’ll admit the method successful this elemental recipe: Heat liquid, disturbance successful a medium-grind cornmeal to signifier a porridge, past adhd much flavor.

The extremity effect should beryllium conscionable fluid capable to pour, and that’s erstwhile you should apical it with thing luscious and juicy — similar the roasted tomatoes, fragrant shreds of basil and nutty-salty Parmigiano-Reggiano we’re using. A sprinkling of crushed reddish capsicum flakes and drizzle of extra-virgin olive lipid completes the acceptable for sunny, creamy comfortableness food.

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Polenta purists who similar to item the spirit of the cornmeal itself volition usage h2o alternatively of the operation of broth and half-and-half called for here. You could bash that too, and chopped backmost connected calories. But we liked the consistency and spirit achieved with these Pantry ingredients.

If you person leftover polenta, you volition announcement that it thickens to a reasonably steadfast authorities arsenic it cools. This is the DIY mentation of those conduit rolls of polenta you spot connected supermarket shelves, and it volition springiness you much ways to bask polenta: Cut it into squares and cook them, similar Roman-style gnocchi, oregon brushwood them with lipid and grill them connected the stove apical oregon outdoor grill. Cut them successful planks and physique a layered casserole. It’s polenta power.

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Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 5, utilizing 1/2 spoon brackish and no-salt-added broth)

• Calories

  370

• Fat

  20 g

• Saturated Fat

  10 g

• Carbohydrates

  32 g

• Sodium

  330 mg

• Cholesterol

  55 mg

• Protein

  10 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  5 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 “The New Classics: A Definitive Collection of Classics for Every Modern Cook,” from Donna Hay Magazine (Fourth Estate, 2013).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.