Mamaliga with cheese
Baked Romanian polenta with feta cheese
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 slices bacon
- 1½ cups crumbled feta cheese
- ¼ cup melted butter
- shredded kashkaval cheese optional
Instructions
- Bring water to a rapid boil in a 4-quart pot. Meanwhile preheat oven to 375°F.
- Reduce heat to simmer and add cornmeal and salt.
- While cornmeal cooks, put bacon on small sheet pan and bake in oven.
- Stir porridge constantly until cornmeal begins to pull away from side of pot, about 20 minutes.
- Remove bacon from oven when fully cooked and reserve the drippings.
- Add feta, melted butter and bacon drippings to porridge and stir until mixed.
- Put cornmeal-cheese mixture into a greased baking dish and bake uncovered for 20 minutes.
- When cornmeal has browned just a little and begins to crisp up on the edges, remove from oven.
- Sprinkle crumbled bacon over the top. Cut into pieces and serve with shredded kashkaval or sour cream.