Baked Polenta with Vegies

Course: Lunch, DinnerCuisine: EuropeanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

2

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

45

minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup coarse polenta

  • 2 Tbsp Vegan butter/ margerine / oil

  • Salt and pepper

  • 3 cups water

  • 2-3 cloves garlic

Directions

  • Smash the garlic with salt and add it to the heated oil/ marg in a sauce pan.
  • Cook for a minute or so at high heat but don’t burn the garlic, stir constantly.
  • Add the polenta and stir for 30 secs, then add all the water and whisk it briskly while it cooks on a high heat, forming a porridgey consistency. Cook this for a further 4 mins on a mid-heat, stirring frequently, add pepper.
  • Turn it out into a greased flat tray or container, so that your polenta will be at least 1 cm high and ready to cut into fingers, when cooled. It will come out very easily, ready for cutting and baking.
  • Chop an array of vegies fairly small; for example potato, kumera, pumpkin, carrots, onion, and bake them in the oven for around 45 minutes until soft and golden.
  • Gently place the polenta in the oven as well for the last 20 minutes or so on top of, or next to, the vegies.
  • Serve with a tomato relish, or tomato chutney or spicy homemade tomato sauce alongside blanched peas, beans or edamame (frozen soy beans)

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