Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a Good dish, fungee with okra and bacon. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly. The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly. The recipe was taught to me by a Jamaican woman I cared for, and it is easy to digest for children and the elderly.

Fungee with Okra and Bacon is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Fungee with Okra and Bacon is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fungee with okra and bacon using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fungee with Okra and Bacon:

1. Prepare 4 strips bacon (cooked, drained, and crumbled)
2. Take 2 cups okra
3. Take 1 cup water
4. Make ready 1 hot kettle of water standing by
5. Get Bacon grease (saved over from the bacon)
6. Get 1 cup cornmeal of your choice
7. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper

Other African versions include ugali or sadsa. To make fungee, okra is boiled in salted water and mixed with wet cornmeal until the mixture becomes stiff. When the mixture does not stick to the pan, the fungee is ready to be consumed. Pepperpot, on the other hand, is a one-pot stew that is originally from Guyana but has been adapted to the Caribbean islands.

Steps to make Fungee with Okra and Bacon:

1. Cook your bacon to be crispy and save your grease in a dish to the side.
2. Cook the okra until tender. Do not drain the cup of mucilage and water.
3. Crunch up the bacon into small pieces. Do not wipe out your pan from the bacon.
4. Put your cornmeal into the hot pan.
5. Add the okra and mucilage onto the cornmeal and stir furiously!
6. Continue to let it cook and add hot water little by little from your kettle until the cornmeal has fluffed and a spoon can stand upright in the fungee. Take care to press out the lumps. (About 20 minutes)
7. Add the bacon and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper to your tastes.
8. Grease a dish with the bacon grease you saved. Pack the fungee firmly in the dish. Let it set.
9. Slice the fungee and serve.
10. Tip: Fry fungee in a pan until it's browned, if it's cold from the fridge.

Fungee and pepperpot is the national dish of Antigua and Barbuda, and although one may think that they are going to be served some kind of mushroom and pepper stew, the truth is far more interesting than the unusual name suggests. Fungee is a bread ball similar to polenta, consisting of cornmeal mixed with okra Fungi, also spelled fungee and pronounced "foon-gee", are not mushrooms, but okra cooked into a thick mash with the addition of cornmeal and water. The fresh, whole fish is seasoned with a Creole-style seasoning and fried until it develops a typical crispiness. After it's fried, the fish is topped with a sweet onion gravy. To make fungee, okra is boiled in salted water and mixed with wet cornmeal until the mixture becomes stiff.

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