Traditional Instant Polenta – 500 g

Polenta is an ancient way of cooking cereal flours, known throughout the country since ancient times, still widespread in the regions of northern and central Italy.

Polenta is made up of a mixture of water, cereal flour (today the most common in Europe is that of corn, yellow polenta) and salt, cooked in a cauldron (tradition has it that it is made of copper) for at least an hour. .

Polenta flour is usually stone ground (“bramata”) more or less finely depending on the tradition of the region of production. In general, polenta is presented to the table on a circular axis covered with a rag and is served, depending on its consistency, with a spoon or in slices, the latter once cut with a cotton thread, from the bottom up. .

Ingredients: precooked corn flour.

Nutritional values ​​ per 100g of product: 1515 kJ, 362 kcal, fats 2.7 g of which saturated 0.3 g, carbohydrates 81 g of which sugars 1.5 g, proteins 8.7 g, fibers 3.1 g, salt 0 g.