Fungee and Pepperpot
Cornmeal and okra mash with a spinach and meat stew.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Cornmeal
- 250 g Okra
- 500 g Spinach
- 300 g Salt beef
- 400 g Pork
- 1 Eggplant
- 300 g Pumpkin
- 2 Onions
- 3 sprigs Thyme
- 1 Scotch bonnet
- 3 tbsp Butter
- 2 tsp Salt
- 8 cups Water
Method
- Soak the salt beef — Soak overnight and boil off the first water.
- Make the pepperpot — Simmer the meats with onion, thyme and whole pepper for 1 hour, then add pumpkin, eggplant and spinach and cook 30 minutes.
- Cook the okra — Boil sliced okra in salted water 10 minutes, keeping the slippery water.
- Make the fungee — Whisk the cornmeal into the okra water and cook 20 minutes, turning constantly until very thick.
- Shape — Beat in butter and turn out into a wet bowl to form a dome.
- Fungee and Pepperpot is ready — Serve the dome beside the stew.