COU COU (CARIBBEAN POLENTA)
Cou Cou (Caribbean Polenta) is a popular vegetable casserole in Barbados. My mother served Cou Cou with a sauce made from tomatoes and frizzed codfish. My husband likes the Cou Cou with lots of butter on it instead of codfish.
Provided by NylaM
Categories Vegetable
Time 40m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Clean and wash okra. Dice all but 6. Add 3 cups of water to a large saucepan. Add salt. Add diced and whole okra. Bring okra to boil for 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Save whole okra aside for garnish.
- Measure 2 cups of liquid from the cooked okra to use for cooking your cou-cou.
- Mix cornmeal in a large bowl with enough cold water to moisten and blend it together. Stir the cornmeal slowly into the reserved liquid and okra. Use a wooden spoon to mix together.
- Return pot to stove over medium heat, and continue stirring okra and cornmeal. Cook and stir about 15-20 minutes. Insert wooden spoon into center of the cou-cou If spoon stands up in the pot and is easily removed from cornmeal, your cou-cou is done.
- Cou-cou should be firm when it's done. If the cou-cou is oose and creamy looking, you have used too much water. If too much water is used, let cou-cou stand uncovered over low heat to "dry out."
- When cou-cou is done, turn the entire mixture into a buttered serving bowl and garnish with whole okra.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 330.6, Fat 13.7, SaturatedFat 7.6, Cholesterol 30.5, Sodium 690, Carbohydrate 48.8, Fiber 5.3, Sugar 0.7, Protein 5.6
CREAMY CORN POLENTA
Provided by Giada De Laurentiis
Categories side-dish
Time 35m
Yield 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Bring the broth, 2 1/2 cups water, butter and 1 teaspoon salt to a boil in a heavy, large saucepan over high heat. Gradually whisk in the polenta. Continue to whisk until the polenta begins to thicken, 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook until the polenta is very thick and tender, stirring often with a flat-bottom spoon or heatproof rubber spatula to prevent sticking or burning, about 20 minutes. Blend the corn in a mini processor until a coarse puree forms. Stir the corn puree into the polenta. Season with more salt if desired.
COU-COU
The national dish of Barbados when eaten with flying fish;loosely based on the middle eastern cous-cous but the okras make the difference!
Provided by Sageca
Categories Caribbean
Time 25m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- 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.
- Meanwhile, combine corn meal with cold water and mix well.
- Add corn mixture to the okra. Add salt.
- Mix well and cook on low, stirring constantly with a flat wooden spoon or "cou-cou stick".
- When mixture breaks away cleanly from the side of the saucepan, the cou-cou is ready.
- Butter a bowl, turn the mixture out neatly onto it, shaking it so that it takes on the shape of the bowl.
- Turn it out on to a serving dish, make an indentation in the top and place a knob of butter in it.
- 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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Nutrition Facts : Calories 166.6, Fat 3.4, SaturatedFat 1.4, Cholesterol 5.1, Sodium 420.8, Carbohydrate 31.8, Fiber 3.2, Sugar 0.4, Protein 3.5
COO-COO (CARIBBEAN POLENTA)
This was the first recipe I tested from the book 'An Embarrassment of Mangoes'.
Provided by C G @Celestina9000
Categories Other Desserts
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, stir together the coconut milk, butter and salt. Bring *almost* to the boil.
- Gradually stir in the cornmeal. Lower heat and cook the mixture for approximately 5-10 minutes, stirring constantly with spoon to prevent sticking (my non-stick pan worked really well for this recipe!) Stir until the mixture thickens and leaves the sides of the pan. If however, it becomes too thick, stir in a little more coconut water or milk.
- Pour the mixture into a greased 8" x 8" ovenproof pan. Set aside for a couple minutes then cut into squares and serve warm. I think I let the coo coo set for about 10 minutes. The second time I prepared this I added a little bit of vanilla paste and a sprinkle of freshly grated nutmeg. Either version is good!
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