Sauté the shallot cubes in a little olive oil. Extinguish with white wine, add clear soup and bay leaf.
Sprinkle the corn semolina, stir heartily with a whisk and make the polenta one minute. Remove the saucepan from the stove and let the polenta swell for ten minutes with the lid closed (*).
In the meantime, fry the pumpkin seeds in a frying pan (or in the oven at 170 °C ) until they are fragrant and puff up.
Bring the polenta to the boil again, remove the bay leaf. Season the polenta with salt and pepper. If necessary, add a dash of clear soup to make it creamy. Stir in the cold butter and the pumpkin seeds.
To serve, drizzle the polenta with pumpkin seed oil.
Tip: The polenta goes well with e.g. pike-perch fillet on fried sage.
(*) Note the package label! Here it concerns so-called Instantpolenta, thus precooked. Not precooked polenta semolina would of course have to be cooked longer.