Mom's Easy Oven Polenta
"This is the method for making polenta that my mom swears by. :) I asked her where she got the recipe, and she thinks it was from the Oregonian newspaper."
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a 1 to 1-1/2 quart baking pan, stir together the water, salt, pepper and polenta.
- Add the pieces of butter.
- Place the container, uncovered, in the center of the top rack of the oven and bake for 40 minutes.
- Open the oven, pull out the rack and stir the polenta (this is also the time to add any additional ingredients such as cheese).
- Close the oven and bake the polenta for an additional 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes.
- At this point you can either prepare it for frying or serve immediately; if you want to fry it, then you should form it in a pan and refrigerate for several hours.
- It's great straight out of the oven with marinara sauce on it.
- Good additions are Monterey Jack cheese, parmesan, jalapenos, or even pine nuts.
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Look for this recipe every time I make Polenta for my Italian friend. She doesn't even think her mom would care that we didn't stir for an hour. -
Wonderful and easy. I did use 2 cups of my homemade chicken stock instead of the water and put parmesan cheese in right at the beginning. Without these additions I'm pretty sure I would have found it too bland. Thanks for posting! -
Yes, this is how I make our polenta. Delicious! -
I'm not sure what polenta is supposed to be like, but by the time the cooking time had passed, it still seemed mushy and liquidy? I cooked it for an extra 10-15 minutes or so, that seemed to help. I ate some right out of the oven and it was pretty good (added garlic-herb seasoning when I took it out to stir after 40 min). I was able to cut up the remainder and stick it in the refrigerator to fry later. -
I will have to try this again with a few more ingredients (cheese etc) and a LOT less salt. It was too salty. I used 4 C water and it never set up in the fridge. Will rate it when I try it again. I did have to use the coarse ground corn meal.
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Wonderful and easy. I did use 2 cups of my homemade chicken stock instead of the water and put parmesan cheese in right at the beginning. Without these additions I'm pretty sure I would have found it too bland. Thanks for posting!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Julesong
Tukwila, 87
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