Ever since we moved to Dubai I've had the wonderful opportunity to explore the different kinds of ingredients available here. Since baking is a great stress buster for me I bake at least once a month and more frequently during the festive season. On one of my first trips to the Organic store I had picked up a pack of polenta which simply put is the rawa made from dried corn kernels. Although I had no particular recipe in mind that day it was easily used up in the form of a cake and the rest of it was used up to dust baking trays on which homemade pizza was placed. I once tried to cook it up with some butter and dried herbs to be served up alongside some grilled chicken and veggies. Tasty!
The first cake that I had baked with it was at my brother's place and I remember the kids going for seconds as it was such a lovely one. Sadly, I lost that recipe and was on a hunt ever since. Recently when I picked up the Step-by-Step Baking Book by Caroline Bretherton at the local library I was thrilled to find a gluten free recipe which I almost ran to try out. The previous one that I had tried was with flour in it but I thought the gluten free version would be a good one to try as we have many people with special dietary needs in my family who could benefit from it.
