Saturday, July 3, 2010

Vegetable Polenta

Hello everyone. I know it's been awhile, but I'm still here and still cooking! Last night I made a tasty vegetable polenta that I thought I'd share with you.

Polenta:
2 Cup Corn Meal
8 Cup Water
A Dash of Salt

Vegetable Topping:
2 Purple Scallions
1 Garlic Scape
2/3 Tsp. Crushed Garlic
1 Head of Broccoli
1 Zucchini
1 Summer Squash
1 Handful of Frozen Bell Pepper strips
The juice from 1/2 lemon
1/2 cup White Wine
A splash of balsamic vinegar
Breaded eggplant cutlets
Basil
Oregano
Salt and Pepper
Aged Asigao Cheese

Polenta:
Beat 2 cups of water into the corn meal. Slowly add the mixture to 6 cups of salted boiling water while stirring. Cook, with stirring, until the mixture thickens. Then reduce the heat, cover and cook for 5 more minutes.

Vegetable Topping:
1) Mince the bulbs of the scallions and the garlic scape. Slice up the zucchini and squash and break down the broccoli.
2) In a sauce pan, saute the garlic, basil, oregano, salt, pepper, minced scallion and garlic scape.
3) Add the zucchini, squash, peppers, and broccoli and continue to saute.
4) After a few minutes, add the lemon juice, wine, and balsamic.
5) Add a sprinkling of the cheese and toss the mixture to fully coat the vegetables. Allow the sauce to cook down.

In a seperate pan, fry up the eggplant cutlets.

Serve the vegetable mixture on top of an eggplant cutlet on a bed of polenta. Sprinkle more cheese on top and enjoy! You won't need to use all of the polenta in this recipe, so you can save the rest to use later.

1 comment:

  1. We put the leftover polenta into greased ramekins, and stuck them in the fridge overnight. This morning I took them out of the ramekins, sliced them in half, and fried the circles of polenta in butter. We ate the fried polenta topped with maple syrup.
    --Katie, Chris's girlfriend

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