Ingredients

• 1 cup instant polenta or cornmeal
• Salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon butter

How to make Quick Polenta directions

• 1

  Boil 4 cups of water in a pot and add salt. Add polenta to the pot in steady stream. Stir the polenta with a wooden spoon. Stirring, continue to cook for 5 minutes or until the mixture thickens so that it soft but solid. Stir butter into the polenta.

• 2

  Pour the polenta into a greased baking sheet. Pat the polenta with a spatula into a smooth flat rectangle. Let the polenta cool for 15 minutes until it becomes firm.