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Antiguan Fungee

Name: Antiguan Fungee
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Antigua and Barbuda
Ingredients: 200g Corn grits; 6 Okra; 20g Butter; 1 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cornmeal stirred with okra — the national staple of Antigua and Barbuda.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fungee is the national dish of Antigua and Barbuda: cornmeal stirred together with boiled okra into a staple. In the same family as Barbados's cou-cou, it's classically eaten with pepperpot (a stew of vegetables and meat). It's shaped into a round mound to serve.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday in an Antiguan home, a round mound of yellow fungee sits beside a stew of green vegetables and meat.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 200g
Okra 6
Butter 20g
Salt 1 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Slice the okra into thin rounds.
Boil the okra with water and salt in a pot for 10 minutes.
Scoop out half the okra and add the corn grits dissolved in a little water to the rest.
Stir vigorously with a wooden spatula and cook 15 minutes.
Mix in the reserved okra and butter and shape into a round mound.

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