Cornmeal Coo Coo

Ingredients

 * 2 cups cornmeal
 * 3 cups hot water
 * salt and black pepper
 * 4 oz butter
 * about 20 ochroes
 * 1 small Onion chopped
 * 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
 * chopped green and red sweet peppers ( or seasoning peppers)

Directions

 * 1) Cut up ochroes across in 1/2 inch pieces
 * 2) Boil 3 cups salted water and add ochroes. Ochroes must be cooked until the seeds turn pink.
 * 3) In the meantime sauté peppers, Onion and garlic in a little oil or butter until soft. Add a little pepper and salt. When ochroes are finished cooking, add pepper-onion-garlic mixture.
 * 4) Using a wooden spoon, stir cornmeal a little at a time into the boiling liquid with the ochroes, and quickly add the butter. Reduce heat and stir briskly. Correct seasoning adding more salt if necessary. Coo-Coo is finished when the wooden spoon remains standing upright in the centre. Put some butter into a bowl and put a pot spoon of the coo-coo and turn the bowl around until a ball is made. Repeat until all has been made into balls, serve garnished with parsley.