Cou-cou

Description
The national dish of Barbados when eaten with flying fish.

Ingredients

 * 4 okras thinly sliced
 * 4 cups boiling water
 * 2 cups cornmeal
 * 2 cups cold water
 * 1 tsp salt
 * 1 tbsp butter

Directions

 * 1) Cook the okras in boiling water for 10 to 12 minutes.
 * 2) While they are cooking,mix the corn meal and cold water to a smooth paste.
 * 3) When the okras are soft, lower the heat, add salt and corn meal mixture, stirring constantly with a "cou-cou stick" (wooden spoon) until the mixture becomes fairly stiff.
 * 4) When mixture breaks away cleanly from the side of the saucepan, the cou-cou is ready.
 * 5) butter a bowl, turn the mixture out neatly onto it, shaking it so that it takes on the shape of the bowl.
 * 6) Turn it out on to a serving dish, make an indentation in the top and place a knob of butter in it.