Today I’m going to show you how to make a delicious and healthy sweet polenta.
This creamy dish is topped with fresh apples, dates, and toasted walnuts, but it’s so versatile — you can top it with anything you have on hand. Perfect for a quick and nutritious start to your day!
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SWEET POLENTA RECIPE
Ingredients:
3/4 cup water (180ml)
3/4 cup milk (180ml)
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup polenta (40g)
1 tbsp maple syrup
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1-2 tbsp Greek yogurt
My toppings:
diced apples, dates, toasted walnuts
NUTRITIONAL INFO (per serving):
311 calories, fat 11g, carb 45g, protein 9g
Instructions:
In a medium saucepan, combine the water, milk, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
Gradually whisk in the polenta, ensuring there are no lumps.
Lower the heat to a simmer and stir in the maple syrup and cinnamon. Continue cooking for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens.
Remove from heat and fold in the Greek yogurt until smooth and creamy.
Spoon the polenta into a bowl and top with diced apples, chopped dates, and toasted walnuts.
Tip: Feel free to customize with your favorite fruits or nuts!
Enjoy!
13 Comments
I definitely want to try this!!
👌 I grew up in the 50s & 60s in Nova Scotia, when cornmeal mush was a popular porridge. As your kids discovered, it makes a nice warm, homey breakfast. Thanks for reminding me – I must make it again.
I love stone ground cornmeal with butter and honey 😋
Are you Slovenian?
Cornmeal really only becomes nutritious when processed with lime, the mineral. It causes the nutrients in corn to become bioavailable. Corn, apart from being processes with lime is fairly unnutritious. The Inca knew this. They almost lived on corn. That's because it becomes very nutritious when processed with lime.
Hello Sasha this recipe looks delicious thank you for sharing this recipe greetings from dublin ireland Patricia 🇮🇪❤️❤️
Unpopular take: polenta is not good for people and kids know it.
I've never ever had polenta. As a kid, Mom made show cooking oats. This looks delicious. Commentators have yummy memories. ❤😊
This is an old dish known in the politically incorrect manner as Indian Pudding. The maize growing Indigenous tribes of North, Central and South America revered corn as a sacred food and were horrified by Europeans who fed their hogs with it. I first heard of sweetened cornmeal like this only about 40 odd years ago in a cookbook of early American recipes, eating habits—and some history was tossed as well for good measure. Bear grease was added by the native population,for reasons not stated.
I must admit I have never tried Polenta, to me it has always looked like semolina and I have never liked semolina (I think school dinners was responsible or that.) But if your 'picky' child changed his mind about it, I might just give this a try! TFS Sasha! Have a great week! 👍💖
Never thought of it as a breakfast dish…..South Africans faint!
This looks so yummy.
We Hungarians have a very similar old school meal which is cooked with semolina (ground wheat) and only with milk. (You boil the milk, add semolina and stir-stir-stir until it thickens to the desired consistency. Top it off with cocoa powder or some jam and there you go. There is no kid who does not like it. 😉 it can be eaten hot and cold too, whichever tastes better for you. )
You can do similar adjustments too to your taste like you did in this recipe. I suggest a try!
And by the way, thank you for simply being and doing this channel, I think it is a nice virtual place in this world! 🙂