Polenta? Polenta.... Its a peculiar food item!

So, I was told recently to try Polenta... Well Karl was and I followed suit to see and it is very interesting.

This was taken off Wikipedia (always reliable) and this is a brief description:

"As it is known today, polenta derives from earlier forms of grain mush (known as puls or pulmentum in Latin or more commonly as gruel or porridge), commonly eaten since Roman times. Before the introduction of corn from the New World in the 16th century, polenta was made with such starchy ingredients as farro, chestnut flour, millet, spelt, or chickpeas.^[3]

Polenta has a creamy texture due to the gelatinization of starch in the grain. However, it may not be completely homogeneous if a coarse grind or hard grain such as flint corn is used.

Historically, polenta was served as a peasant food in North America and Europe. The reliance on maize, which lacks readily accessible niacin unless cooked with alkali to release it, as a staple caused outbreaks of pellagra throughout the American South and much of Europe until the 20th century. In the 1940s and 1950s, polenta was often eaten with salted anchovy orherring, sometimes topped with sauces"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta

I was told this is a good substitute for bread and you can use it is different ways!

This is what I done with it though, for a first time try.... It turned out okay!

SoI bought the Polenta from Morrisons for 85p! Brought it home and took a photo.
POLENTA's FIRST SELFIE!

I followed the instructions on the back... cut it about 2.5cm thick and put it in the frying pan.
WARNING - Make sure the fat is pretty much heated before you put this in... otherwise it goes like SOGGY fried bread... (Yum...Friend bread)
I cut up some onions and added them too to flavour the Polenta, then added Tomato towards the end to cook them up.

Voila! Here is it, it didnt taste to bad!!!

Heres the important stuff!

I got this off of http://www.med-health.net/Polenta-Nutrition.html

I DIDNT WRITE THIS. Its the best I could find at this moment in time so if its wrong I apologise!

"Polenta Nutrition"

Here is a summary of the nutritional information of polenta based on the US Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database 18:

Fried Polenta
Nutrition	Amount Per Serving (100 g)
Calories	150
Total Fat Saturated Fat Polyunsaturated Fat Monounsaturated Fat	0.68 g 0.092 g 0.291 g 0.169 g
Cholesterol	0
Sodium	75 mg
Potassium	66 mg
Total Carbs Dietary Fiber Sugars	31.85 g 3 g 0.26 g
Protein	3.48 g
Vitamin A	28 % Daily Value (DV)
Calcium	5% DV
Iron	152% DV

Cooked Polenta
Nutrition	Amount Per Serving (100 g)
Calories	85
Total Fat Saturated Fat Polyunsaturated Fat Monounsaturated Fat	0.38 g 0.052 g 0.165 g 0.096 g
Cholesterol	0
Sodium	96 mg
Potassium	38 mg
Total Carbs Dietary Fiber Sugars	18.1 g 1.7 g 0.15 g
Protein	1.98 g
Vitamin A	12% DV
Calcium	3% DV
Iron	66% DV

Thanks for reading! 

Kerry xox