Last modified on Fri 19 Mar 2021 12.05 EDT
Polenta can feel like a food that takes for ever to make only to end up tasting of nothing. But a little invention and a lot of care will elevate your dinner into something tremendous. Here are 10 recipes that do exactly that.
Perfect polenta
Let’s start, as we do so often, with Felicity Cloake. If this is your first experience of polenta, start with her perfect polenta recipe from 2013. It still takes a while to make – three-quarters of an hour of near-constant stirring – and Cloake admits, from experience, that “even the dog won’t touch it” if you cook it badly. However, this recipe – which uses milk for richness and parmesan for seasoning – is as warm and comforting as a bucket of mash.