Polenta
- Vegan
- Lactose free
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Thick corn polenta cooked in water; 4 large or 8 smaller side portions.
4 servingsFinal yield 1,700 g
Ingredients
- 400 gCornmeal, degermed, unenriched, yellow
- 1,400 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
- 6 gSalt, table
Method
- Bring water and salt to a boil in a heavy-based pan.
- Pour cornmeal in a thin stream while stirring constantly so no lumps form.
- Simmer 30 minutes at 90 °C and stir every 3 minutes; finished polenta releases from the pan sides.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
This recipe has not been checked against a documented culinary reference.
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 1,480 kcal
- Protein
- 28.4 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 317.8 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 15.6 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 0.88 g
- Sodium
- 2,409.5 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 6 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 370 kcal
- Protein
- 7.1 g
- Fat
- 1.8 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 79.5 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 3.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 0.22 g
- Sodium
- 602.4 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.5 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 87.1 kcal
- Protein
- 1.7 g
- Fat
- 0.41 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 18.7 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 0.92 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 0.05 g
- Sodium
- 141.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.35 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains none of the 14 main allergens.
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal