I was meaning on making a baked polenta dish that was a little different to this, but my dad purchased the polenta for me.  Rather than getting the raw version, he purchased the ready made one and I needed to come up with something different, hence the baked polenta lasagne.

Now if you can find the ready-made version, it’s not hard to make some slabs of polenta up to use instead.  Simply mix it in pan to cook, then pour into a tray, smoothing the mixture and allow to firm by sitting aside.  Once it’s cool, you’ll have some flat slabs ready for the dish!

Serves:

• eight

Ingredients:

• 1 slap of ready made polenta (500 grams cooked)
• 100 grams mozzarella cheese
• 3 tbs parmesan cheese grated

Sauce

• 1 tin tomato
• 1 chilli
• 1/2 red onion
• 2 tsp garlic
• white pepper
• salt
• 1 tsp dried basil

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C or 360 F.
2. Vitamise all the ingredients for the sauce in a blender.
3. Grab a tray and layer a little of the sauce down, adding the polenta on top.
4. Slice the mozzarella into thin pieces and layer on top of the polenta.
5. Layer another layer of sauce on top and repeat with some more polenta, then tomato.
6. Add your mozzarella again and sprinkle some parmesan on top.
7. Place in the oven for 1 hour.
8. Allow to cool for five minutes before slicing and serving.