Basic Polenta

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

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Ingredients

  • 1.75 litres/3 pints/ cups cold water
  • sea salt

Method

  1. Pour the water into a wide, heavy, preferably copper pan and place it over a high heat. Bring the water to the boil.
  2. Trickle the polenta into the boiling water in a fine rain with one hand, and whisk constantly with the other.
  3. When all the polenta has been whisked into the water, reduce the heat to a medium to low flame and then begin to stir with a s