Easy Recipe for Cheesy Polenta with Tomato Sauce

This easy recipes uses pantry ingredients and comes together in just minutes. Kids love the flavor, because with a starch base, tomato sauce and cheese, it is similar to pizza. Polenta is readily available at the grocery store all prepared and packaged in tubes. Polenta is a healthy whole grain food, it is gluten free and as is in the tube it has no fat. This recipe can be a main course served with a salad, or a very hearty and flavorful side dish.

Cheesy Polenta with Tomato Sauce

1 Tube prepared polenta - 18 oz

2 Tb Butter

Salt to taste

1 C Spaghetti sauce

1 C Grated cheese - cheddar, mozzarella, or Parmesan

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Slice the polenta into half inch rounds. Melt butter in a large, oven proof skillet until the foam subsides. Salt the polenta lightly and cook on one side until slightly browned. Flip the polenta slices over and top with spaghetti sauce and grated cheese. Place in the oven and cook until the chees is melted the sauce is bubbly and the polenta is heated through - about 10 minutes. Alternately, you can cover the pan and finish the polenta on the stove.

Julie Languille - Busy wife and mom, and website owner

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