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Before I made this recipe, I thought polenta only came in a tube.
I had never prepared polenta at all until I made this simple Nourishing Traditions recipe. It turned out to be a very good side dish, and the kids loved it. The husband, not so much, but you can't have everything, can you? One of my daughters called this ‘corn mac & cheese' because it had a lot of the flavor of mac & cheese without the macaroni; therefore, it's gluten free!
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If you're going to use whole dried kernel corn to make your own masa and cornmeal for whole grain corn recipes, you'll need to know how to make lime water. Soaking corn in lime water breaks down the anti-nutrients that can cause pellagra, which is a deficiency of vitamin B3. The soaking (at least 7 hours) makes the niacin in the corn more nutritionally available.
Fortunately, making lime water is easy. The hardest thing that I found about it was locating lime, or “cal”. I eventually went to a local Mexican grocery store to buy a container of “cal” (pickling lime).
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