Tijoe's Fungi
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup minced onion
- 2 1/2 cups water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups yellow stone ground cornmeal
- 13 cup diced tomato, seeded and drained
- 1/2 cup frozen cut okra, thawed and coarsely chopped and well drained
- Melt the butter in a small frying pan and cook the onion over medium heat for five minutes, stirring often.
- Remove from the heat.
- Bring the water to a boil in a three-and-a-half-quart heavy saucepan, preferably a nonstick one.
- Stir in the salt and slowly pour in the cornmeal, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
- Reduce the heat to low and stir constantly for 10 minutes.
- Stir in the onion and butter, tomatoes and okra.
- Continue stirring for five minutes until the mixture rolls off the side of the pan and no longer sticks to the bottom.
- Turn the mixture onto a baking sheet and smooth the top evenly with a spatula into a 10-inch circle, three-quarters of an inch thick.
- Cool for 15 minutes.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest for one hour.
- Cut the fungi into about one-and-a-half-inch squares and serve at room temperature.
butter, onion, water, salt, yellow stone ground cornmeal, tomato, okra
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3923 (may not work)