Creamy polenta porridge

[poohbear7260]

Hi All

Today I tried making the above breakfast taken from the 30 day meal plan that is advertised on the homepage. I followed the recipe to the letter but it came out as thick as wallpaper paste. It says 300g of dried polenta. I am thinking it should have said 30g. Has anyone made this?

 

[lovinglife]

Sounds a bit low on the liquid, as a chef I would add about 1.5ltr of liquid to 300g polenta the milk, cream & water adds up to just short of a litre so perhaps if you make it again reduce the polenta by 50-70g or add another 300ml of water.

How many portions is that? It sounds massive!

 

[poohbear7260]

Sounds a bit low on the liquid, as a chef I would add about 1.5ltr of liquid to 300g polenta the milk, cream & water adds up to just short of a litre so perhaps if you make it again reduce the polenta by 50-70g or add another 300ml of water.

How many portions is that? It sounds massive!

Thank you, it says serves 4, but it would serve way more than that. I will have another go following your instructions

 

[lovinglife]

Thank you, it says serves 4, but it would serve way more than that. I will have another go following your instructions

I would try dropping the polenta by 50g and don’t add your liquid all at once until you get the consistency. Polenta does come up pretty solid anyway and the longer it’s made the more solid it gets. Is the cream an addition at the end? If so you could add more cream at this stage just before you eat to get the consistency your looking for

Let us know if you give it another go how it works out

 

[JoKalsbeek]

Hi All

Today I tried making the above breakfast taken from the 30 day meal plan that is advertised on the homepage. I followed the recipe to the letter but it came out as thick as wallpaper paste. It says 300g of dried polenta. I am thinking it should have said 30g. Has anyone made this?View attachment 69351

Hate having to admit it, but I have no idea what polenta is. Having said that though, I googled similar recipes, and I do think this may be way off the mark. Others call for an average of 40 grams per serving, which'd come to 160 grams for four people... I think someone just made a mistake filling in the numbers on the site.

 

[jape]

Hi everybody - I have not been on the forum for ages. The reason being that when the format of the site changed, one needed to log in again and I could not remember my password. Anyway, here I am.

The 300g of dry polenta with 300 ml skim milk and 300 ml single cream is correct.

In South Africa, they have 3 dishes called slap pap, stywe pap and krummelpap. Pap means porridge. The difference between the three is essentially the ratio of maize meal (corn meal/polenta) and the liquid. In South Africa, they mostly use water as the liquid:
(a) Slap pap - 500 ml maize meal with 1 liter water
(b) Stywe pap - 750 ml maize meal with 500 ml water
(c) Krummel pap - 625 ml maize meal with 450 ml water. (the method of making krummelpap and Stywe pap is slightly different).

Slap pap is eaten like oats as porridge for breakfast, whereas Stywe pap and krummelpap is mostly eaten as a side dish at a BBQ (braai in South Africa) with some kind of tomato and onion relish (I think they refer to it now as chakalaka).

Maize meal is essentially the same as polenta, except that maize meal is made from a white variety of maize (corn), whereas polenta is made from a yellow variety of maize (corn). I put corn in brackets, because of the North American use of the word, where I now live. I think it also means something different in the UK than in North America.

A word of caution though: it is NOT diabetic friendly - it will spike one's BG levels like the Eifel Tower.

Here is a website, that explains it further:

The Ultimate Guide to South African Mieliepap

There is not one South African that doesn’t know a thing or two about mieliepap. No braai (bbq) is complete without having pap in some form or another – either slowly bubbling away in a…

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