Is polenta worth the effort?

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It's cheap enough, I believe but is it easy and nice?

Cornbread is made of a much finer grind, so it is a lot nicer and doesn't have the gritty texture (shudders). I'm with happychappy, in that there's not much else that is vegetarian that I won't eat. Polenta is where the line is drawn

I like it solidified, fried and then cooked in cheese sauce or tomato sauce, a bit like pasta bake.

But so much easier, surely, to boil some pasta for 8 mins and chuck it in a bake .

It's the HF-W recipe that I tried, nice flavour, but it had the texture of semolina inside the crispy coat, I'm unlikely to try it again, far too soft for me.

It's truly disgusting. HTH

Minty- and so much tastier...

I like it. Add loads of butter, salt, pepper, parmesan, some chopped herbs. Then either serve it like mash, or spread quite thinly on a greased baking tray and cook until it has a crispy top (about 15 mins). Serve with a tomato based sauce/casserole eg sausage casserole, goulash type things

As Haberdashery describes, it's great as an alternative carbohydrate, but it does need a lot of seasoning/flavouring such as Parmesan cheese/thyme/chili. It's definitely worth the small effort of cooking the dry stuff in water, though be careful, it can become volcano-like in no time! Once it reaches the consistency of loose mashed potato, you can add seasoning/flavourings to taste, spread on an oiled tray to cool, then cut into portions and fry. Yum!

Surely almost anything , even cardboard, would be rather tasty if smothered in tomato/parmesan/herbs/chilli/garlic etc? I think the fact that polenta needs all that to be even approaching edible tells you all you need to know.....

I was always v anti - then found pre cooked variety in something looks like a sausage thing. Not as bad as it sounds. Sice it, then fry With a tiny bit of ollive oil, pop a portabello mushroom on top, do a couple of layers - yummy, vegan, v low fat supper.
Must go and guy some more.
Yum

Still haven't been able to find it but I do take Hellymelly's point. It reminds me of a quorn recipe.

Fry onions, garlic, chilli, herbs.
Add quorn and fresh tomatoes, mushrooms and pesto.
Discard quorn and eat.

Am I just buying cornmeal? And turning it into polenta as it were.