Italian Fried Polenta Cake?

This might be something that you never heard about before: Italian fried polenta cake...

It's been a while since grandmothers used to make fried polenta cake in Italy.

This plain corn polenta recipe was very useful to recycle polenta leftovers the day after, making it on going salty or sweetie fried.

Can We Call This Polenta Cake?

Well this may be more "polenta sweet", what actually is called polenta cake nowadays I will show you here: polenta cake.

This polenta recipe was one of a very few ways for poors to eat something sweet at my grandmother's time.

There were almost no chance for them to eat cakes when poverty reigned.

The idea was to sprinkle some sugar over the fried polenta to turn it into a simple cake. So what was first thought as a salty meal became sweet as a cake in a few seconds.

And if today there are no more polenta leftovers of course it can be made on purpose just for our delicate palate.

Ingredients:

How to Make Polenta

This is the authentic pan to make polenta the old fashioned way and Not just that because in this kind of pots polenta cooks best.

Old Dutch Solid Copper Polenta Pan with Wooden Handle, 5 Quart

Preparation: easy just slice and fry

Polenta Lasagna
Italian polenta lasagna with gorgonzola cheese very much alike layerd lasagna.
North Italian recipe just another way to cook polenta cornmeal...

1. Polenta must be prepared the day before and kept in the fridge, if you already have leftovers even better. Once you are ready for frying place the polenta on a dish.

2. Then cut into slices large two fingers and tall one as the photo below shows...

3. Then heat in large skillet abundant frying oil. Fry until polenta has formed a crunchy crust on both sides.

A couple of tips:
a) Polenta squirts horribly, for the same reason I advise you to fry a few pieces at a time!
b) Just after sautéed sprinkle with salt or sugar to taste... I assure you it deserves!