In the pantry · 7 uses
polenta
Coarse cornmeal that wants far more liquid and far more patience than the box says. Soft and loose it is a bed; cooled, cut and fried it is a completely different dish.
7
dishes and drinks that need it
0
more where it is worth adding
71%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Parmesan is in 57% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 7
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.