Soft polenta with tomato beans
A Italian dinner for the galley that copes with rough seas, needs no fridge, about 30 min hands-on.
- Dinner
- Italian
- ⏱ 30 min
- 🌊 Sea tolerance 4/5
- 🪨 Bare bones
- vegan
- vegetarian
- pescatarian
- gluten-free
- kosher
- halal
Ingredients
For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.
- Polenta / cornmeal280 g (70 g)
- Canned chopped tomatoes600 g (150 g)
- Canned white beans (cannellini)480 g (120 g)
- Onion (brown/yellow)160 g (≈ 1.5 onions) (40 g)
- Garlic (bulb)20 g (≈ 0.5 bulb) (5 g)
- Dried oregano4 g (1 g)
- Extra-virgin olive oil32 g (8 g)
Method
- Simmer onion, garlic, tomatoes, beans and oregano 15 minutes.
- Whisk polenta into 4× its volume of boiling salted water; stir 5 minutes.
- Spoon the beans over the polenta.
In the galley
- Copes with a seaway — 4/5 for sea tolerance.
- Stow the main ingredients in dry stores — nothing here needs a fridge.
- No listed allergens in our data — still check the labels of what you buy.
Per serving
🌾 Fibre-rich
- kcal
- 517
- protein
- 16 g
- fat
- 10 g
- carbs
- 92 g
- sugar
- 7 g
- fibre
- 13 g
From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label.
Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes