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Polenta Sammarinese

This Polenta Sammarinese guide uses a clearly attributed San Marino-published rosemary polenta recipe: the cooked mixture is cooled, cut into lozenges, buttered and grilled, then served with Parmigiano Reggiano. The local board-served sausage or game-bird versions remain separate.

About Polenta Sammarinese

Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.

Flavour: The selected publisher directly describes rosemary aroma for its interpretation. It gives no precise taste balance, cheese intensity or pepper heat, so those finished qualities remain unprovided rather than inferred from the ingredients.

Texture and appearance: The selected method first cooks the polenta until soft, then chills it and grills the buttered pieces until crisp. This supports the finished crisp grilled surface; it does not establish the final interior bite or a crisp-versus-soft contrast after grilling.

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Dish type

Other

Chilled cooked polenta cut into lozenges, buttered and grilled on a barbecue, with rosemary and grated cheese. The local board-served sauced polenta described by another publisher is a separate presentation. The catalogue label Polenta Sammarinese is used here for this explicitly attributed San Marino-published interpretation rather than one claimed universal recipe.

Preparation

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Combine the yellow flour,750 ml water, salt, pepper and rosemary; bring to a boil and stir until soft. Stir in some grated cheese, line a tray with kitchen film and spread the polenta 1 cm thick with a moistened spatula. Cool at room temperature, refrigerate 4 hours, cut into lozenges and dry with kitchen paper. Brush both sides with butter and grill over direct medium heat until well grilled and crisp, about 8-10 minutes, turning once with a spatula. Serve hot with grated cheese. Initial boiling time, exact cooling duration and grill temperature are unprovided.

Source limits: Initial boiling/cooling timing, exact grill temperature and flour cereal unprovided.

Serving presentation

The recipe serves 4-6 people as grilled lozenges made from a 1 cm-thick cooled slab and served hot with grated Parmigiano Reggiano. It gives no sauce or meat topping. Board presentation with sausage/pecorino, game-bird sauce or RTV's fish ragù belongs to separate local accounts, not this plate.

Source limits: Exact serving portions and optional accompaniments unprovided.

Before you order

The selected grilled recipe contains butter and Parmigiano Reggiano with milk membership. Ask whether the dish is this chilled-and-grilled rosemary version or a soft polenta al tagliere with sauce, and obtain the flour's exact cereal and complete ingredient list. Ask about cheese, butter, meat/fish sauces, supplier additives and grilling equipment. Other local polenta variants cannot settle this card's ingredients, and this attributed recipe does not establish venue category absence or safety.

Source limits: Venue version, flour cereal, supplier formulas, sauce additions and handling unknown.

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Ingredients in Polenta Sammarinese

The San Marino retailer's grilled-polenta recipe for 4-6 people lists 250 g farina gialla (yellow flour),20 g washed/dried/finely chopped rosemary needles,5 g salt, freshly ground black pepper, grated Parmigiano Reggiano and 20 g room-temperature butter. Its method adds 750 ml water, cheese in the cooked mixture and a final cheese dusting, without cheese or pepper amounts. The flour's exact cereal is not explicitly named in this card and stays held. The separately described local board-served polenta with sausage sauce and pecorino is not part of this grilled recipe.

Source limits: Yellow-flour cereal, cheese/pepper quantities, supplier formulas and moistening medium unprovided.

Farina gialla,yellow flour250g^[2]Identity unresolved
Rosemary needles,20gwashed/dried/finely chopped^[2]Recipe ingredient
Salt,5g^[2]Recipe ingredient
Freshly ground black pepper,amount unprovided^[2]Recipe ingredient
Grated Parmigiano Reggiano,mixing and finish^[2]Recipe ingredientSource-specific formulation remains unresolved.
Butter,20gat room temperature for brushing^[2]Recipe ingredientSource-specific formulation remains unresolved.
Water,750ml cooking phase^[2]Recipe ingredient
Moistening medium for spatula,unnamed^[2]Identity unresolved
Parmigiano Reggiano,serving dusting^[2]Recipe ingredient

These foods describe the cited recipe. Ask the kitchen about its version and any additional ingredients or handling.

Origins & food traditions

Explore the countries and cooking traditions associated with this dish. These connections do not establish a single birthplace or limit where the dish is eaten today.

This selected recipe is published by Centro Internazionale del Barbecue, the FUCS S.R.L. retailer whose own page identifies Serravalle and Borgo Maggiore premises in San Marino, dated 4 January 2021. It is a modern local-published interpretation, not a verified national standard. SanMarinoSite separately describes winter polenta al tagliere with sausage sauce and grated pecorino, and a richer game-bird/lard/sage variant. San Marino RTV records a 2013 fish-ragù polenta item with Taverna Righi; the audio was not listened to and supplies no transcribed recipe here.

Source limits: Exact historical origin and nationally fixed polenta formula unprovided.

Countries

San Marino

Cuisines & regions

Sammarinese Cuisine

Associations in the cited sources

These describe source-specific cultural or geographic connections. Catalogue links may still need review.

Countries & places: San Marino
Cooking traditions: Sammarinese

Sources & references

Selected whole recipe: Polenta grigliata al barbecue, Centro Internazionale del Barbecue,4 January 2021; publisher's own San Marino premises establish its local publication context. SanMarinoSite Food and wine supplies separate polenta al tagliere traditions. San Marino RTV's 21 February 2013 recipe title is text-only occurrence; no audio claims are made. Food Standards Agency definitions support the butter and explicitly named cheese as milk products.