Meat-Free Mondays - Mexican Polenta Scramble
Posted on June 23, 2008 by
This is one of my favorite RealAge recipes so far.
Polenta is a neat food. It’s made from cornmeal and there are endless ways to prepare it. It comes dry, like rice or pasta does, or already prepared in a tube. It can be used instead of bread, as a side dish, or even to make a pancake like breakfast. This recipe called for a tube of polenta, but if you wanted to get fancy with it, you could bake your own and use that instead. I used Melissa’s Organic Polenta this time around.
I couldn’t find pepitas at the store, so we went without, but otherwise I followed the recipe exactly. I will absolutely be making this again. One serving has 315 calories and 13 grams of protein.
i’ve never even heard of polenta until i moved out here (thank you whole foods buffet). i ‘m mad at the universe for hiding such awesome-ness from me!
I love polenta, and learning about new ways to cook it is a beautiful thing.
Trader Joes sells polenta in its pasta isle. As I recall it’s pretty cheap.
I’ve been looking for more ways to use up that polenta I bought. Sounds good.