Cornmeal Cou-Cou is one of Barbados national dishes, its served with flying fish, salmon or saltfish. In this video I served it with Salmon.
Here are the ingredients for the Salmon Gravy
1 Onion
8 cloves garlic
1 bell pepper
1 tomato
thyme
ketchup
all purpose season
Ingredients for Cou- Cou
2 cups Cornmeal
4 cups water
2 cups of okras
salt
Start by first making your gravy, saute onions peppers, garlic add season salt, ketchup, water and salmon lower stove and let simmer.
While Gravy is simmering start Cou-Cou
add water to cornmeal to soften meal
cut the bottom and top of okra and cut into rings, place slice okras in a saucepan with water.
add salt to taste bring to medium boil for a few minutes until Okra soften.
add a quarter of the liquid back into saucepan. Add soaked meal, you'll need a wooden spoon to stir Cou Cou as it cooks, Stir constantly to avoid lumping. add Okra liquid gradually when Cou-Cou starts to bubble continue stirring for another 2-3 mins.
slice a cucumber add salt and lemon. Serve gravy on Cou-Cou with cucumber and enjoy.