What is the difference in grits and polenta???!
Polenta is correct, yellow cornmeal and come in variuos sizes of coarsness, is cooked with either water, milk or stock is a staple in the Northern parts of Italy were pasta is not as popular, it can be serve soft with a sauce or mushroom ragu a fav in the winter, or cooked set and the cut, grilled or pan fried and again serve as a base for sauces, meats even cut and layered with sauce and cheeses like lasagna.
White corn is also known as Hominy, and you can find it tins at the markets, it is used in theat form in soups, like the SW-texas style menudo with tripe, a great hangover cure, but hominy is CORN just de-skinned with a lye solution to take the outer skin off.
Answers: Well as a former chef who has made both and all of the repondant have a bit of a give on the right answer, mostly Grits are white corn, gorund and used for various dishes in the day, breakfast with sugar and milk or butter, lunch/dinner with gravy as a side dish.
Polenta is correct, yellow cornmeal and come in variuos sizes of coarsness, is cooked with either water, milk or stock is a staple in the Northern parts of Italy were pasta is not as popular, it can be serve soft with a sauce or mushroom ragu a fav in the winter, or cooked set and the cut, grilled or pan fried and again serve as a base for sauces, meats even cut and layered with sauce and cheeses like lasagna.
White corn is also known as Hominy, and you can find it tins at the markets, it is used in theat form in soups, like the SW-texas style menudo with tripe, a great hangover cure, but hominy is CORN just de-skinned with a lye solution to take the outer skin off.
It's in the grind. Grits is made from coarsely ground corn. Polenta is made from cornmeal and cooks up as a mush.
grits is s corn porridge....america origin... polents - italian origin popular boiled corn preparation...
grits is corn and polenta is What the crap is polenta?????
Grits are ground hominy - corn that has been soaked in lye-water to loosen the husks and then rinsed. The process of making the hominy greatly improves the accessibility of the nutrition in corn to humans. Grits are usually white.
Polenta is what you might have heard of as Hasty Pudding. In other words, it is plain old fashioned corn meal mush, made by stirring ground dried corn (cornmeal) into boiling salted water and cooking until thick. Polenta is usually made from yellow corn.
Both of these dishes originated in the Americas. Corn is native to the Americas and American Indians were consuming corn prepared in both of these ways (along with a hundred or more others) long before Europeans arrived.
According to Alton Brown they are the same thing prepared a little differently. Many Southern folk like to use hominey meal for their grits. But, they are both basically made out of the same thing, corn meal. They have different seasonings and preparations. Grits is more like hot cereal than Polenta. Grits are a southern U.S. dish and Polenta is from Italy. I love both!
Huge difference.
Grits are made from HOMINY.
Polenta is made from coarse cornmeal. Made from regular ground corn.