Polenta

Main Dishes

An easy corn meal dish.

Serves
4

Prep time
5 min

Cook time
8 – 10 min

Ingredients

  • 2 of 18 oz tubes of polenta, plain, quinoa, or basil garlic
  • 1 of 25 oz jar of no-oil spaghetti sauce

Instructions

  1. Slice polenta and place slices in a 9×13 in casserole dish
  2. Pour spaghetti sauce over the polenta
  3. Microwave on high for 8 to 10 minutes

Alternatives

This basic dish is tasty, but a little bland. You can spice it up by adding garlic powder, onion powder, or other spices. Alternatively, you can turn it into a Mexican dish remeniscent of a tamale pie by using polenta, refried beans, canned green chilies, cumin, and salsa.

Food Sources

Polenta is a corn meal that comes in a transparent plastic tube with metal rings at the ends. It comes in plain and multiple flavors and can be found at Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and Henrys. It can be a little hard to find in the stores. In Whole Foods, it is in the section with pasta noodles on the very bottom shelf.

No-oil spaghetti sauce can be found at Trader Joe’s – its the one with mushrooms. Whole Foods has a no-oil spaghetti sauce that is labeled almost identically to the one with fat in it, except the no-oil version has a small “No Fat” on the top of the label.

Source: NuSci legacy recipe archive.