What's the difference between polenta and starchy?
Polenta
Definition:
(n.) Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5 Pour the polenta on to two plates, arrange the grilled radicchio on top, then spoon the anchovy and rosemary sauce on top.
(2) Two hundred and fifty samples of five different foods: desserts, soups, mousses, pre-cooked "polenta" and mashed potatoes, were examined.
(3) Photograph: columbiahillen via GuardianWitness Growing up in Transylvania, one of the local delicacies was a dish called "blankets", made with polenta and cheese, as well as cream and bacon.
(4) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
(5) They may take some persuasion to eat ugali – a polenta-like dish – made from millet or cassava instead of maize.
(6) 4 Stir the butter and provolone through the polenta so they melt in, then season to taste.
(7) (Depending on the brand of polenta it could take up to 600ml water.)
(8) 2 In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, polenta, baking powder, salt, rosemary, crushed peppercorns and fennel.
(9) Down in the village, check out the Locanda Al Monastero di Rolle where a "tagliere" is served on Sunday evenings - the speciality Veneto wooden plate filled with hot polenta and cold cuts, grilled vegetables and cheeses.
(10) If anything, her blog is a colourful rebuke to the commenters who sneer that people on benefits should just make a cheap lentil stew to last them all week: "I do use lentils in my cooking – I make polenta bolognaise, I make burgers out of them – but I do get infuriated by people who say, 'Oh, just eat lentils.'
(11) Polenta and grilled radicchio with rosemary and anchovy sauce This would make a lovely meat-free main; the sauce will keep in the fridge for a couple of days, so you can make it ahead.
(12) Heat the milk in a medium saucepan over a high heat until it's just about to boil, then whisk in the polenta and turn the heat down to low.
(13) Now add the ground almonds, polenta, flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder.
(14) Lunchtime specialities are huge portions for two, such as the peito de boi com arroz e feijão manteiga (beef with rice and brown beans, £8.50), and the rabada com polenta, arroz e agrião (beef tail with polenta, rice and watercress, £9).
(15) The addition of a little polenta gives these cakes a light, fluffy texture.
(16) Brunch takes in carrot cake porridge, superfood granola, grilled grapefruit, herb-oil polenta (and there’s even scrambled eggs and “contraband croissants” for those who want it).
(17) Consistent positive associations were observed with more frequent consumption of bread (odds ratio, OR = 2.1 for colon and 2.2 for rectum for highest vs. lowest tertile), polenta (OR = 2.1 for colon, 1.9 for rectum), cheese (OR = 1.7 for colon, 1.8 for rectum) and eggs (2.5 for colon, 1.9 for rectum), whereas reduced ORs were observed in subjects reporting more frequent consumption of tomatoes (OR = 0.5 for colon and 0.4 for rectum).
(18) 13C in CO2 and plasma glucose, metabolites and insulin concentrations, carbohydrates, and lipid oxidation were measured after ingestion of 76 g glucose equivalent of crackers, pasta, or polenta.
(19) It appears everywhere on gastropub menus ("proper pork pie", "proper mash"), in one-up-from-McDonald's burger joints ("proper hamburgers", promises the London chain Byron), and in the mellifluously matey warbling of Jamie Oliver munching a Vietnamese banh minh in an East End market ("That is a proper, proper sandwich"), and his own dish names: "Proper Bloke's Sausage Fusilli", "Roast of Incredible Game Birds with Proper Polenta".
(20) When a single logistic model was fitted including all food items significant in univariate analysis, the 3 items remaining statistically significant were green vegetables (relative risk, RR = 0.27 for upper vs. lower tertile), polenta (RR = 2.32) and ham (RR = 1.60).
Starchy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the present study gives support for a protective effect associated with a fiber-rich or vegetable-rich diet, while it indicates that frequent consumption of refined starchy foods, eggs and fat-rich foods such as cheese and red meat is a risk factor for colo-rectal cancer.
(2) Potentially clinically useful starchy foods producing relatively flat glycemic responses have been identified.
(3) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(4) Universal optimum application of fluoride and substitution of starchy foods for sugary ones (or even simply judicious consumption of sugar) would alone do most of the job.
(5) The enzymes are likely to function in the depolymerization of cell wall arabinoxylans during mobilization of the starchy endosperm.
(6) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(7) Cereals and products provided the highest proportion of natural sodium while starchy staples supplied over 40 per cent of the potassium in the diet.
(8) Starchy seeds or fruits rather than leaves appeared to have been consumed.
(9) The present study investigated whether the relative preference for sweet and starchy tastes changes during the postweaning to adulthood period in male and female rats.
(10) In the resting grain most of the reserve proteins are 'packed' into the non-living storage tissue, the starchy endosperm.
(11) The low-fiber diet consisted of milk, glucose, and dextrins in liquid formula form, the high-fiber diet was composed of starchy foods.
(12) The GIs, and in particular IIs, were closely correlated with the hydrolysis rate index (HI) obtained in vitro, and this procedure can be recommended as a tool for ranking of starchy food.
(13) Category 1 includes foods that are low in Na, high in K and low in energy: fresh or frozen vegetable sources with vitamins A and C. Category 2 contains foods low in Na relative to high K and high energy: most fruit, starchy vegetables, nuts, milk and meat products, and chocolate.
(14) Different starchy foods produce different glycemic responses when fed individually, and there is some evidence that this also applies in the context of the mixed meal.
(15) Many foods which produce these effects are traditional starchy foods and so strengthen current recommendations of the diabetes association, heart foundations and cancer institutes to increase the use of starchy foods through reducing fat intake.
(16) Women with less than 1,200 kcal had lower intakes of protein, carbohydrate, fat, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin; they ate less frequently; and they ate less meat and eggs, legumes, bread, cooked starchy vegetables, milk products, desserts, added fat, and added sugar than did men and women whose mean energy intakes exceeded 1,200 kcal.
(17) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
(18) Among 31 food items considered, a few showed direct association, including starchy foods and various sources of animal fats or proteins, whereas frequent consumption of other foods, including major sources of dietary iodine (such as fish, green vegetables and fruit) gave significant protection.
(19) The research, presented today at the American Diabetes Association conference, shows that an extremely low-calorie diet, consisting of diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables, prompts the body to remove the fat clogging the pancreas and preventing it from making insulin.
(20) Several cDNAs encoding the small and large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) were isolated from total RNA of the starchy endosperm, roots and leaves of barley by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).