Tutu
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Submitted by: Komedor Krioyo
Submit date: January 3, 2017, 4:23 pm
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Tutu is a traditional Curaçao side dish made with cornmeal and black-eyed peas. Creamy, savory, and satisfying, it is commonly served in place of rice or another starch alongside an Antillean meal.
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Ingredients
- 1 pound Black eye peas
- ½ table spoon of nutmeg
- ½ Onion
- 6 cups water
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 cup Coconut milk (sugarless)
- 1¾ cup Yellow corn meal
- 2 tablespoons butter
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Preparation
- Wash peas and soak in water for 2-hours.
- Drain, add 6 cups fresh water, add chopped garlic, and bring to a slow boil over medium heat.
- If necessary, add more water, till bean are tender and soapy.
- Add salt, sugar and Coconut milk, cook for another 10 minutes.
- Add corn meal a little at a time, while stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
- Keep stirring, adding force, to fold the peas with the corn meal.
- The heat, cooks the corn-meal. So it takes about 20 minutes for the cornmeal to cook thoroughly.
- Add butter; finish stirring till butter incorporates well.
- Damp one flat-dish with water; transfer the “tutu” to the dish.
- Damp a second dish with water; cover the “tutu”, press hard on the dish, till the “tutu” starts showing between the dishes.