Light and creamy polenta is the perfect side dish for meat or roasted vegetables.
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Perfect Italian Creamy Polenta | Recipe by Lounging with Lenny
One of the tastiest most versatile and easiest side dishes to make is polenta. It’s a great base for osso bucco short ribs or oxtail. It’s also a great base for vegetables like mushrooms or roasted broccoli.
Polenta is a porridge-like dish popular in Northern Italy. In Italy it is often made with a variety of ingredients including cornmeal ground rice buckwheat and chestnut flour. Here in North America it is generally made exclusively with coarsely ground cornmeal. Think of polenta as an Italian version of grits! But made with yellow corn instead of the white corn of grits.
You can serve polenta warm and as a porridge but you can also let it set and cut it into slices and then grill or bake it.
