What do you do with leftover polenta?
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I like cornbread, but when I was a child polenta always made me gag if I ate it. Mom kept making it and telling me to "Try it, you'll like it!" every year, year after year. I haven't made or tried it as an adult---wonder what would happen now?
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Add a little milk and chicken broth to make it soupy when heated and whisked. Add shredded chicken and have the best chicken soup. Temper an egg and add to make it extra rich. This is the chicken soup my kids always wanted when they were sick. I make it from scratch with cornmeal but leftover polenta works great.
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Yes, but I still don't know what "tempered" means. My thoughts are that it needs to be at room temperature or warm or something like that. Am I right?
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This is what Grma made,but she made a couple pans full at a time,so probably doubled this amount.You want a hot skillet & some ppl dip slices in flour to crisp them. You can add cooked sausage too,just break up in small pieces while cooking,drain....then add to cornmeal before pouring into a loaf pan.Try with maple syrup.....a great breakfast or breakfast for dinner.
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I temper by adding hot mixture to the beaten egg a little at a time then add it to all the hot mixture. I learned how to temper eggs by watching my grandmother cook and in my home ec class in high school. In a gourmet cooking class it was one of the first things we learned. I won a whisk for knowing. Every class a student got a cooking utensil for the best of the day. I won again for knowing about ghee and how to make it. I didn't know it was called ghee. I knew it as preserved butter. I lived next to a Mennonite lady in CA for a few years. She taught me a lot about food and how to stock my pantry.
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I temper by adding hot mixture to the beaten egg a little at a time then add it to all the hot mixture. I learned how to temper eggs by watching my grandmother cook and in my home ec class in high school. In a gourmet cooking class it was one of the first things we learned. I won a whisk for knowing. Every class a student got a cooking utensil for the best of the day. I won again for knowing about ghee and how to make it. I didn't know it was called ghee. I knew it as preserved butter. I lived next to a Mennonite lady in CA for a few years. She taught me a lot about food and how to stock my pantry.
#20
Wow! That's a lot of info! I've been seeing a lot of recipes with polenta and I always end up with a little left over. My favorite is to add shredded cheese to it and stir until melted and combined with the cornmeal. I'll have to try frying it. Maybe make it into little patties before it hardens.
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