Easy Baked Polenta

Name: Easy Baked Polenta
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 8 cups, water; 2 cups medium-grind, polenta; 2 teaspoons, salt; 1/8 teaspoon, pepper; 4 ounces, Parmesan cheese, grated (2 cups); 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2012

Side Dishes

We wanted to skip the endless stirring and simply pop some polenta in the oven and still have it come out creamy and lump-free. Were we kidding ourselves?

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Creamy polenta—basically a porridge of cornmeal and water—is a comforting Italian side dish, but cooking it on the stovetop means up to a half-hour of nonstop stirring. Using the same ratio of cornmeal to water (1:4) and the right kind of p...

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