Dokunoo

Dokunoo is a Caribbean dish made with "tun cornmeal" (turn cornmeal). Popularly known in Jamaica and Belize, it is known in Africa as well.

Turned cornmeal is prepared by heating chopped onion, garlic, celery, okra, salt, pepper in a pot with butter. Then you slowly pour in cornmeal and keep 'turning' (mixing) it on a medium heat while you continuously add more butter until it starts to pull away from the sides of the pot and starts to stick together. You spin the pot forming it into a ball. There are many different ways that you can prepare turned cornmeal, by adding different ingredients like bully beef (canned corned beef), fish,anything you feel like eating. My grandmother always served it shaped like a big ball and we would just cut away at it until it was all gone. Normally served with a meat that was cooked to make its own gravy, like stew chicken, or stewed beef.

In St. Maarten they have Dukuna, which consists of grated coconut, allspice, nutmeg, sugar, raisins and flour. Some put butter in the mixture and some just use water. It is kneaded and then about a dallop the size of the palm of you hand is wrapped in banana leaf tied and then boiled. It is usually eaten with something salty like saltfish. The finished product comes out like a sweet heavy dumpling.