What to do if polenta remains? With our recipes it will be easy to recycle leftover polenta, both in the sweet and savory version. Find out how
"Nothing is thrown away in the kitchen. " This saying is increasingly true, especially now that – between the crisis and the newly found economic and ecological awareness – we are all a little more attentive to the subject. So what to do if you have some polenta left over? There are delicious ways to bring it back to the table. With our recipes recycle the leftover polenta it's child's play.
Recycle leftover polenta – the basics: baked or fried
To prepare the Baked Polenta, cut into slices and arrange in layers with the cheeses that you prefer or that are left over at home (taleggio and gorgonzola are the classics of the tradition, but parmesan, fontina cheese, well-dried mozzarella, scamorza cheese…) will do very well. Bake it in the oven until the cheeses have melted and the last layer is well au gratin.
An old popular adage recalls that the frying makes any raw material exceptional. All the more so with polenta, which is already so good on its own. Cut it to slices – to use fried polenta as a side dish or crouton – or stick – to create chips – and dab them well with kitchen paper. Fry them in hot seed oil, adding a little polenta at a time. Dry the excess oil, add salt and sprinkle with rosemary or season the fried polenta croutons with lard, sautéed mushrooms, cold cuts, cheeses, crumbled sausage…
How many other savory dishes to recycle polenta
To have a little lighter polenta croutons, grill the slices of polenta on the classic hot grill. This is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to recycle leftover polenta.
If, instead of calories, you don't care at all… prepare it botched polenta: mix the polenta with cheese is ragù or cheese e mushrooms, bake and enjoy with a nice glass of red (things are either done well or not done).
And then, there are the bundles with speck and the three-flavored croutons, our recipes that are well suited for recycling leftover polenta.
Ever thought of recycling leftover polenta into a dessert?
We ask our grandparents, they will surely remember this snack from their childhood: the sweet fried polenta. Just fry some pieces of polenta and pass them in caster sugar, up to "breading". If you want, add some cinnamon with sugar or serve sweet fried polenta with a hot fruit compote, made quickly at home by cooking fruit of your choice with honey, cinnamon, a drop of water and one of the liqueur you have at home to cook in a saucepan.
The extra-luxury version of sweet polenta is le pancakes, which you will obtain by adding a little soft polenta rum, raisins, a teaspoon of yeast and a few tablespoons of flour. Take spoonfuls of this mixture, fry them and serve them sprinkled with powdered sugar. You will make children of all ages happy.
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