Costine di Maiale Cotte nel Brodo di Polenta

Pork Chops Cooked in the Broth of Polenta

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
In Nonna's Kitchen

By Carol Field

Published 1997

  • About

Cooking meat and polenta together without any stirring at all: what a revolutionary and delicious idea! Once the pork chops are browned, the polenta cooks with them in the oven in combined milk, broth, and pork juices. No time-consuming watch at the stove and no arduous stirring are required.

Gianna Modotti grew up in the Camia mountains of Friuli and remembers the dishes cooked by her grandmother as if she ate them yesterday. The polenta of