Simple Oat Milk Polenta With Tomato Sauce

Recipe and images by NutraMilk Nutritionist Florencia Tagliavini.

Ingredients

For oat milk (Yield: 1 quart /4 cups / 946 mL)

• 1 cup (107g) oats
• 1 quart (946ml) water
• a pinch of Pink Himalayan salt (optional)

For polenta

• 1 cup (150g) polenta
• 3 cups (720ml) of fresh oat milk made with the NutraMilk
• 1 teaspoon of nutritional yeast (optional)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt

For tomato sauce

• 1 can (425g) tomato sauce
• 150g brown grape tomatoes or other fresh tomato of your choice
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 small onion chopped
• salt & pepper to taste
• basil or parsley to garnish

Instructions

• Start by making fresh oat milk with the NutraMilk:

• • Allow oats to soak for 30 minutes to 1 hour before preparing your oat milk.
  • Drain oats.
  • Place oats and salt in NutraMilk container.
  • Press Butter cycle, set for I minute.
  • Press Start.
  • Open the container lid, add the water. Replace lid.
  • Press Mix (do not change this default time).
  • Press Start.
  • Press Dispense and open spigot to fill your storage container.

Tomato Sauce

• Heat the olive oil in a non-stick skillet and cook the onion and garlic, stirring, for 3 minutes until soft.
• Add the tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook for 5 minutes before adding tomato sauce and letting simmer for another 10 minutes.

Polenta

• In a medium saucepan, bring 3 cups of oat milk to a boil. Gradually stir in the polenta to make sure there are no lumps. Reduce heat to low and simmer until polenta is thick.
• Remove from heat, add nutritional yeast (optional), olive oil and stir to combine well.
• Pour polenta in to baking pan and bake in preheated oven 350 F for 15 minutes.
• Cut polenta in equal pieces, top with tomato sauce and garnish with herbs.