Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, fungee with okra and bacon. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fungee with Okra and Bacon is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Fungee with Okra and Bacon is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly. Add okra to the same pan with bacon grease (may need to add more oil such as avocado oil if necessary) & fry, stirring occasionally until brown. Add back bacon & onions & stir.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fungee with okra and bacon using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fungee with Okra and Bacon:
- Get bacon (cooked, drained, and crumbled)
- Get okra
- Make ready water
- Get hot kettle of water standing by
- Get Bacon grease (saved over from the bacon)
- Get cornmeal of your choice
- Make ready Salt and pepper
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. In Barbados, it is one part of the national dish of Flying Fish & Coo-Coo. Other African versions include ugali or sadsa.
Instructions to make Fungee with Okra and Bacon:
- Cook your bacon to be crispy and save your grease in a dish to the side.
- Cook the okra until tender. Do not drain the cup of mucilage and water.
- Crunch up the bacon into small pieces. Do not wipe out your pan from the bacon.
- Put your cornmeal into the hot pan.
- Add the okra and mucilage onto the cornmeal and stir furiously!
- 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)
- Add the bacon and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper to your tastes.
- Grease a dish with the bacon grease you saved. Pack the fungee firmly in the dish. Let it set.
- Slice the fungee and serve.
- Tip: Fry fungee in a pan until it's browned, if it's cold from the fridge.
Saute' bacon in skillet until it is browned. Add onion, cooking until the onion is transparent. Add the okra and continue cooking until it is tender and almost done. Add salt and pepper to your taste. Serve as a side dish or over rice.
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