Polenta Cakes

This is actually a recipe that I made a long time ago but haven’t had a chance to post yet. {side note: let me take this moment to apologize for my sporadic posting lately, life has been extremely busy with wedding planning & traveling this summer. Hopefully soon it will calm down & I can resume some more regular posting.}

I was inspired by a twitter friend of mine who said that she had honey polenta with ratatouille for dinner. Honey + Polenta = Yumalicious!

I decided to make mine as a little round disc & top with crisp bacon & goat cheese drizzled with honey on top. The finished product turned out to be delicious. All of the flavors really complimented each other and the soft creamyness of the polenta was nicely broken up by the crisp bite of bacon. The saltiness of the goat cheese & bacon was a nice contrast to the sweet honey flavor of the polenta.

Honey Polenta Cakes

Ingredients:

Polenta
Honey
Goat Cheese
2 pieces of bacon

Directions:

1. Cook polenta according to package directions, adding in a few squirts {roughly 2 tablespoons} of honey to the mixture. Once semi cooled form into cakes approximitely the size of a crab cake.
2. As polenta is cooking, crisp two pieces of bacon on the stove top. Crumble once crisp.
3. Plate the polenta cakes & top with bacon & crumbled goat cheese.
4. Drizzle honey on top & serve along side your favorite dish.