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Polenta Cheesecake with Pine Nut Sauce Recipe

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Polenta Cheesecake with Pine Nut Sauce
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Ingredients
18
Count
Nutrition
3165
Calories
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Make pastry dough: In an 8- by 3-inch springform pan stir together flour, sugar, and salt and with your fingertips blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in ice water until incorporated and press mixture evenly onto bottom of pan. Bake pastry in middle of oven until golden, about 12 minutes.
  3. Make filling while pastry is baking: In a small saucepan bring grappa or rum with raisins to a boil, stirring occasionally, and remove pan from heat. With back of a spoon force polenta through a coarse sieve into a bowl to break up lumps. Stir in cream cheese until smooth and whisk in remaining ingredients until combined well.
  4. Reduce temperature to 350°F. Drain any liquid from raisins. Pour filling over pastry and gently stir in raisins. Bake cheesecake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until edges are golden but middle trembles slightly. Turn off oven and cool cheesecake in oven 1 hour. Remove cheesecake from oven and chill, covered, until cold. Cheesecake may be made 2 days ahead and chilled, covered.
  5. Make sauce: In a heavy saucepan cook sugar over moderate heat, without stirring, until it begins to melt. Continue to cook sugar, stirring with a fork, until melted and swirl pan until a deep caramel. Add water (mixture will bubble up) and cook, stirring until caramelized sugar dissolves. Cool sauce slightly and stir in pine nuts and vanilla until combined.
  6. Serve cheesecake drizzled with sauce.
  7. To make basic polenta: In a heavy saucepan bring water and salt to a boil and gradually whisk in cornmeal in a thin stream. Cook polenta over moderately low heat (it should be barely boiling), stirring constantly, until very thick and pulls away from side of pan, about 40 minutes for cornmeal and about 15 minutes for instant polenta. Remove pan from heat and cover to keep warm. Stir polenta just before using. Polenta will keep warm, covered, about 20 minutes. Makes about 3 cups.
  8. To make basic polenta: In a heavy saucepan bring water and salt to a boil and gradually whisk in cornmeal in a thin stream. Cook polenta over moderately low heat (it should be barely boiling), stirring constantly, until very thick and pulls away from side of pan, about 40 minutes for cornmeal and about 15 minutes for instant polenta. Remove pan from heat and cover to keep warm. Stir polenta just before using. Polenta will keep warm, covered, about 20 minutes. Makes about 3 cups.
  9. Note: In the traditional method of cooking polenta, forty minutes of constant stirring is required to achieve a lumpless texture and fragrant flavor. However, Italian-food expert Marcella Hazan has developed a method that involves very little stirring during this time. We believe it produces a very good polenta, one nearly as flavorful and smooth as the traditional procedure. To make satisfactory polenta in a real hurry, an imported instant polenta (precooked cornmeal) is available. This cooks in a mere fifteen minutes.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 3164.89 Kcal (13251 kJ)
Calories from fat 889.58 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 98.84g 152%
Cholesterol 820.52mg 274%
Sodium 1162.34mg 48%
Potassium 1646.75mg 35%
Total Carbs 499.59g 167%
Sugars 306.78g 1227%
Dietary Fiber 19.31g 77%
Protein 55.43g 111%
Vitamin C 3.3mg 6%
Vitamin A 7.5mg 248%
Iron 10.5mg 58%
Calcium 403.1mg 40%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 254.65 Kcal (1066 kJ)
Calories from fat 71.58 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7.95g 152%
Cholesterol 66.02mg 274%
Sodium 93.52mg 48%
Potassium 132.5mg 35%
Total Carbs 40.2g 167%
Sugars 24.68g 1227%
Dietary Fiber 1.55g 77%
Protein 4.46g 111%
Vitamin C 0.3mg 6%
Vitamin A 0.6mg 248%
Iron 0.8mg 58%
Calcium 32.4mg 40%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 70.7
    Points
  • 83
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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