I've been meaning to start veganising recipes from the Australian Women's Weekly for a while. Some of their recipes are incidentally vegan or easily veganised by the replacement of dairy milks/butters for other less abusive products and some of their recipes depend on meat or eggs as integral players. So be it a little lazy on my part for choosing this recipe, its just so good looking and I hadn't used polenta for quite some time. The major adjustment made was with cheeses and milk as well as completely halving the recipe as I didn't have a whole litre of milk to spare, and my "lamington" tray is small.
The Australian Women's Weekly presents: Baked polenta with tomato and bocconcini (a la vegan).
INGREDIENTS (with my adjustments and substitutions)
2 cups vegetable stock (I use Massel, and had run out of their really good Chicken stock but would use that if I had it)
2 cups soy milk
pinch of sea salt
1 cup polenta
⅓ cup grated cheezly mozzarella
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
⅓ cup Napoli pasta sauce (we have this around the house sometimes, its a generic mix of tomatoes, tomato paste, and miscellaneous herbs and spices. you could use whatever you see fit, a white sauce or pesto would be nice, or a fresh passata with herbs. as you like!)
6 thin slices of cheezly mozzarella
6 seeded black olives, halved
pinch chopped fresh oregano, optional
flat-leaf parsley leaves, for serving, optional
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 220°C (200°C fan forced). Grease a 20cm x 30cm
lamington pan.
Combine stock, milk and salt in a large saucepan; bring to the boil. Gradually sprinkle the polenta over the stock mixture, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, making sure the polenta has no lumps.
Reduce the heat to low and partially cover the saucepan. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes or until polenta is very thick and a spoon can stand upright in the centre. Remove from heat, stir in the grated cheeze and nutritional yeast.
Spread polenta into prepared pan. Stand for about 5 minutes. Spread tomato sauce over polenta, top with mozzarella slices and place an olive half in the centre of each mozzarella slice. Sprinkle with oregano.
Bake, uncovered, for about 45 minutes or until cheeze is melted.
Let sit for about 5 minutes or until the polenta is firm to touch and easily cut. Cut polenta into squares; sprinkle with parsley, if desired.
Delicious, warming and I have no idea why some people hate polenta. Its such wholesome niceness.
12 comments:
im not a polenta hater as such, but a not-likey-very-much-er.
none the less, it still looks really nice. not nice enough for me to say, eat it, but nice enough for me to say it looks nice :)
yum.
i'm a fan of veganising recipes as you know. tim's mum keeps me supplied with copies of good food magazine which i then have my way with
Polenta bake, yes please! I really do not cook polenta nearly enough so thanks for the recipe!
Ah, perfect! I've had two bags of cornmeal polenta for AGES now, and haven't found anything I'd like to use them for... this sounds delish so I think I'll be giving it a go...
will let you know how it turns out!
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Léna the roasted veg pizza is $18.50 plus $4.00 for the gf base, it's also one size and it was a lil bit smaller than the large wheat pizzas.
this looks delish!!! Do you have an e-mail address?
Calling all vegans to participate in a vegan care package swap
http://cookingforaveganlover.com/2009/09/16/vegan-care-package-swap/
this has no particular relevance, butttttt
leda make slices now and they are the friggen best.
http://www.ledanutrition.com/products/products/#slices
It has been extremely hard for me to find gluten free products that aren't incredibly heavy.. Is this ok? I am hoping it's a little lighter than the traditional stuff. Thanks
Sylvia
Cigars
Bravo to your veggie polenta bake!! My mom would love this. Thanks for the post. :)
Been really busy managing a a Chinese Restaurant in Capalaba area and I find it hard to whip something up in the home but this looks fairly easy to prepare and I would love to try this one out, on the weekend maybe! Thanks, I love polenta :)
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