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

  1. Simmer onion, garlic, tomatoes, beans and oregano 15 minutes.
  2. Whisk polenta into 4× its volume of boiling salted water; stir 5 minutes.
  3. 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

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