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Green Polenta with Spring Vegetables

Creamy quick-cook polenta stirred green with spinach and mascarpone, topped with a lemony pile of just-cooked broccoli, beans and peas and sliced goat cheese. Light but satisfying, and good with a glass of crisp white.

  • YieldServes 4
  • Hands-on20 min
  • Total22 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Polenta

  • 800 mlvegetable stock
  • 170 gquick-cook polenta
  • 120 gunsalted butter, soft
  • 3 tbspParmesan, freshly grated
  • 1 clovegarlic
  • 250 gfrozen chopped spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry
  • 70 gmascarpone
  • to tastesea salt

Vegetables

  • 200 gpurple sprouting broccoli
  • 250 gmixed broad beans, peas and sugar snap peas
  • 3 tbspolive oil
  • 1 tbspmint leaves, chopped
  • 1lemon, zested and juiced

To serve

  • 120 ggoat cheese, sliced

Contains

  • Dairy
  • Celery
  • Goat, sheep, buffalo or camel milk
  • Legumes (any)
  • Peas
  • Corn (maize)
  • Olive
  • Citrus fruits (any)
  • Lemon
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Broccoli
  • Spinach
  • Carrot
  • Mint
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Tyramine

Taste

  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Bitter
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Creamy
  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Spring

Occasion

  • Entertaining

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • Under 30 min total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Kid-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: moderate
  • Carbs: moderate
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: high
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: moderate

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