Cou-cou

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 okra
• 4 cups water
• 2 cups cornmeal
• 2 cups cold water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon butter

Recipe

• 1 put water to boil in a medium-size pot. thinly slice okra and add to boiling water. cook for 10 to 12 minutes, until soft. lower the heat.
• 2 meanwhile, combine corn meal with cold water and mix well.
• 3 add corn mixture to the okra. add salt.
• 4 mix well and cook on low, stirring constantly with a flat wooden spoon or "cou-cou stick".
• 5 when mixture breaks away cleanly from the side of the saucepan, the cou-cou is ready.
• 6 butter a bowl, turn the mixture out neatly onto it, shaking it so that it takes on the shape of the bowl.
• 7 turn it out on to a serving dish, make an indentation in the top and place a knob of butter in it.
• 8 what makes it unique and distinguishes it from its now more fashionable cousin the italian polenta, is the addition of okra. in some islands, cou-cou is spiced up by peppers and yellow-butter.
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