Anguilla
Dish: Fungee & Pepperpot
Ingredients
- For Corn Meal Fungee
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups corn meal
- 1 tsp salt to taste
- 6 okras, cut into small pieces
- For Pepper Pot
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- Vegetable oil meat scraps(pieces of meat, bones & skin)
- 4 cloves, cut
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 4 tbsp margarine
- 1 bunch thyme
- 1 bunch chive
- 1 lb spinach, chopped
- 2 cups fresh greenpeas
- 4 fresh green eddo leaves
- 1 lb antrobers(eggplant), peeled & cut
- 1 lb okras, chopped
- 1/2 lb pumpkin,peeled & cut
- 1 lb salt beef, chopped
- 1 lb pig snout(optional), cut
- 1 lb green papaw, cut
- 3 small squash, cut
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp pepper
Method
Corn Meal Fungee Preparation:
- Place water, okra and salt in a pan. Bring to boil until okras are cooked.
- Remove half the liquid. Stir with a wooden spoon.
- The corn meal is mixed to a pasty batter by adding cold water then stirring & mixing this.
- Add wet corn meal. Reduce the heat, stir continuously with a wooden spoon until mixture becomes fairly stiff.
- When the mixture breaks away from the pan easily the fungee is ready.
- Butter a bowl, turn the mixture into the bowl, shaking it into the shape of the bowl, then turn it out into a serving dish.
Pepper Pot Preparation:
- Wash all leaves and vegetables in salted water. Place cut vegetables; eggplant, squash and leaves to soak in fresh water Cook salted meat in water with no salt for 10 minutes. Remove and drain.
- Heat vegetable cooking oil. Add salt meats.
- Fry for about 15 minutes, add onions and fresh meats. Fry for another 5 minutes.
- Add all vegetables, except peas. Stir.
- Add just enough water to cover and cook the vegetables till tender.
- When the vegetables and meat are cooked, add the peas along with all seasonings.
- Allow all ingredients to simmer under low fire for approximately 15 minutes or until thick.
- Serve with okra fungee rolled in butter or margarine.