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.