Crossword clues for polenta
polenta
- Pasta alternative
- Italian cornmeal dish
- Italian dish similar to grits
- Venetian side
- Trattoria side
- Italian relative of grits
- Italian mush delicacy
- Italian cornmeal mush
- Italian cornmeal dish that can be fried or grilled
- Grits' Italian cousin
- Fine yellow cornmeal
- Cornmeal side
- Cornmeal paste
- Cornmeal in a trattoria
- Cornmeal — on plate (anag)
- Boiled cornmeal
- (Dough made with) cornmeal
- Thick cornmeal mush
- Cornmeal concoction
- Cornmeal mush for Mario
- Mushy Italian dish
- Cornmeal creation
- Alternative to pasta
- Staple of northern Italy
- Boiled cornmeal dish
- Creamy Italian side dish
- Cornmeal dish
- Mush for Mario
- Thick mush of cornmeal
- Cornmeal - on plate
- Italian porridge
- Italian maize flour
- Italian maize dough
- Italian food over austere period old man hoards
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polenta \Po*len"ta\, n. [It., fr. L. polenta peeled barley.] Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English polente, from Latin pollenta, polenta, literally "peeled barley," related to pollen "fine flour," from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (1) "flour; dust" (see pollen). Later reborrowed from Italian polenta, from the Latin word.
Wiktionary
n. any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled
WordNet
n. a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water
Wikipedia
Polenta may refer to:
- Polenta, an Italian dish made from boiled cornmeal
- Polenta (moth)
- A locality near Bertinoro in Romagna, Italy
- The Polenta (family), also known as the Da Polenta and as the Polentani, from the same area
- Diego Polenta (born 1992), Uruguayan footballer
Usage examples of "polenta".
Drop in for a seasonal menu, which features hearty winter rib-grippers such as veal osso bucco with creamy roast garlic mushroom polenta and braised greens or somewhat lighter warm-weather fare such as cumin-crusted ahi tuna with beluga lentils, roasted vegetables, and red wine sauce.
Costa was charmed with such honour being shewn him, and after thanking me went into the kitchen to help the mother with the polenta.
Next day, as I was going to pay my court to the Pope, I saw Momolo in the first ante-chamber, and I took care to remind him of the polenta for the evening.
I was coming to take polenta with him, and all he need do was to get a good supper for twelve.
The large table was covered with a clean cloth, and soon after they brought in two huge dishes of polenta and an enormous pan full of chops.
Tempted by the sampietro, the fillet of John Dory with peppers, she finally settled on chicken and ordered pollo cacciatora with polenta, Max opting for tagliolini ai funghi to start followed by fegato di vitello.
Choose barley, bran, brown rice, bulgur, couscous, millet, oats, polenta, or quinoa as a cooked cereal or grain with your dinner.
They placed their orders, a half dozen Hog Island oysters followed by squid risotto for Rae and a porcini mushroom salad followed by roasted quail and creamy polenta for Sam.
Costa was charmed with such honour being shewn him, and after thanking me went into the kitchen to help the mother with the polenta.
The large table was covered with a clean cloth, and soon after they brought in two huge dishes of polenta and an enormous pan full of chops.
I was coming to take polenta with him, and all he need do was to get a good supper for twelve.
As soon as he saw me seated he told me he should have liked to give me a good supper, but there was only pork chops and a polenta.
I sent him off directly to His Holiness's 'scopatore maggiore' to warn him that I was coming to take polenta with him, and all he need do was to get a good supper for twelve.
The polenta was excellent, the chops delicious, and the ham perfect, and in less than an hour the board was as bare as if there had been nothing on it.