How to Cook Perfect Fungee with Okra and Bacon

Fungee with Okra and Bacon. The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly. Cooked with okra, it is called Fungee in Antigua and Coo Coo (other times spelled Cou Cou) in Barbados. With bacon and beans in Aruba, it is called Tutu.

The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly. Fungee and pepperpot is the national dish of Antigua and Barbuda, and although one may think that they are going to be served some kind of mushroom and pepper stew, the truth is far more interesting than the unusual name suggests. Fungee is a bread ball similar to polenta, consisting of cornmeal mixed with okra To make fungee, okra is boiled in salted water and mixed with wet cornmeal until the mixture becomes stiff. You can have Fungee with Okra and Bacon using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Fungee with Okra and Bacon

1. You need 4 strips of bacon (cooked, drained, and crumbled).
2. It's 2 cups of okra.
3. Prepare 1 cup of water.
4. It's 1 of hot kettle of water standing by.
5. You need of Bacon grease (saved over from the bacon).
6. Prepare 1 cup of cornmeal of your choice.
7. You need to taste of Salt and pepper.

When the mixture does not stick to the pan, the fungee is ready to be consumed. Pepperpot, on the other hand, is a one-pot stew that is originally from Guyana but has been adapted to the Caribbean islands. Fungi, also spelled fungee and pronounced "foon-gee", are not mushrooms, but okra cooked into a thick mash with the addition of cornmeal and water. The fresh, whole fish is seasoned with a Creole-style seasoning and fried until it develops a typical crispiness.

Fungee with Okra and Bacon step by step

1. Cook your bacon to be crispy and save your grease in a dish to the side..
2. Cook the okra until tender. Do not drain the cup of mucilage and water..
3. Crunch up the bacon into small pieces. Do not wipe out your pan from the bacon..
4. Put your cornmeal into the hot pan..
5. Add the okra and mucilage onto the cornmeal and stir furiously!.
6. Continue to let it cook and add hot water little by little from your kettle until the cornmeal has fluffed and a spoon can stand upright in the fungee. Take care to press out the lumps. (About 20 minutes).
7. Add the bacon and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper to your tastes..
8. Grease a dish with the bacon grease you saved. Pack the fungee firmly in the dish. Let it set..
9. Slice the fungee and serve..
10. Tip: Fry fungee in a pan until it's browned, if it's cold from the fridge..

After it's fried, the fish is topped with a sweet onion gravy. To make fungee, okra is boiled in salted water and mixed with wet cornmeal until the mixture becomes stiff. When the mixture does not stick to the pan, the fungee is ready to be consumed. Pepperpot, on the other hand, is a one-pot stew that is originally from Guyana but has been adapted to the Caribbean islands. Seasoned Bacon Wrapped Crock Pot Pork Loin.