Bajan Grandmother Teaches Me How To Cook The National Dish Of Barbados!/ Cou-Cou and Flying Fish 

As a pan Africanist this is our dream coming true. A Kenyan RU-vidr learning how to cook Cou Cou. That’s game over. The genie is out of the bottle.

Trudy has really done justice for Barbados, and the people of Barbados are very lovely and kind hearted people ❤, Trudy is true the kuku is like banku in Ghana, you can either use white corn or yellow corn for Banku or Etew Do your thing girl 🎉❤❤

That lady is an experienced expert cook, she reminds me of my late Mum's cooking skills. I LOVE coucou!

Trudy and Maya have sold Barbados to the world. I am definitely coming visiting 😂❤

Ok, this looks like Jamaican "Tun Cornmeal " which is absolutely delicious 😋

This was such a heartwarming video to watch. My favorite part was at 0:42 when the little girl grabbed you from behind. You are a nice person if children you don't know ( or even dogs) feel comfortable around you. That did it for me.👍

Miss Trudy, you are Bringing Africans and the Diaspora together, that is Your Purpose and You Are Excellent at it !! B1 👊🏽❤🖤💚

The meal looks yummy. I love the welcome you've received. Invite all of them to Kenya and Ghana. Africa to the world!!!

Trudy, I appreciate you for the way you've showcased my beautiful island. Bajans love you. You MUST come back.

Wow..now we know that Barbados and Africa share even the food in common. Thanks for the education and also we can now cook kuku, fufu and Banku. Thank you ,mama. You daughter N Ayana are very beautiful just like their granda..the great chef.❤

I learnt all the old cooking ways from my Bajan mother and enjoy cooking and baking all the Barbados favourites, Cou Cou, SOUSE, Rice & peas, Sweetbread, but sadly the younger generation are not so interested. So takeaway Food in Barbados now has become a big thing!

Awwwww that little girl loves you 😊yea such beautiful homes

Nooo!!!! But Seriously, thank you for spreading our message that you’re welcome in Barbados. You both did an amazing job, this is something our government has been working on so we appreciate the help. You will love Jamaica as well, the food, the music, the culture wonderful. They’re like the Nigerians of the Caribbean, they will treat you well. Come back to Bim and the Caribbean anytime, the six region is your home too. Plus there’s some many islands and cruises waiting for you.. Big up!!😊

Jamaican version is called Tun Cornmeal, which is cooked in coconut milk and seasoned to perfection. This is served with steam fish and okro.

So glad you are enjoying some bajan cooking. Like grandma said, coucou has many variations throughout the Caribbean. In the Caribbean its 99% yellow corn, and in Kenya for your Ugali you use white corn. So basically we are all using the same base...grounded corn or corn meal. In Kenya from what I see they add nothing when making Ugali. In the Caribbean we kick it up a notch...It's like using rice as a basic base and all around the world it's made so different.... Wish I could make or turn coucou...

Great vid. You gotta love how Miss Trudy incorporates the sayings from countries. The cou cou and salmon looks delicious. Barbados is beautiful country Cheese on Bread and Nini Nini P.S. The little girl that started you and hugged you was so cute.

When I was growing up, my grandmother and her generation would often make coucou in a motar and pestle adding the okra little by little. I'm St Lucian and my favorite is coucou and saltfish. (Flying fish too)

You're so bleased miss Trudy ,that family is so lovely ❤

I love you Trudy, you always make use of each and every opportunity that comes your way. You are courageous, aggressive and easy to relate with.

In Trinidad and Tobago cou cou and stewed meats/fried fish with callaloo is also staple dish . Love barbados' version as well 😋

You just wake up the Bajan food monster in all Bajans.Cou cou and flying fish/ herring in tomato sauce/ saltfish/ red herring/ mackeral/salmon..Cook that once for any man just like how his mum does it and he is hooked.😅😅😢 Trudy you are now a Bajan after enjoying cou cou.

Thanks so much for all the love you have spread over Christmas Trudy❤ I have learnt a lot about Barbados 🎉 Cheese on bread !

How she is turning the cou-cou is the same way Kenyans attack Ugali on the fire and same way non traditional pounded yam is ccoked from yam powder.

I am African-Canadian. This Grandmother looks exactly like my late Auntie back in Cameroon

This is the modern way of cooking cou cou. Growing up my mom use a cou cou stick she never soak her meal She would boil the okra pour it in a bowl then she would put the cornmeal in the saucepan with some of the okra water and stir letting it cook and adding the okra and stirring Her cou cou never get any lump i once try to help her stir it make me sweat

WE are making yellow stone ground grits this morning! My staple food here in the states. We eat ours with salmon or mackerel fish and poached eggs, cheese, bacon or sausage. It is eaten in the southeastern states.

I'm originally from the Caribbean as well, but I've eaten at an African restaurant with my hands as well, and I didn't find a problem doing it. And "YES" the food seems to taste even more delicious when u use your hands Ms Trudy ... 😊

The young girl visiting, and commenting on the process is really sweet.

Just love trudy so humble!

So that mixer can cook..thought its only for stirring/whisking..but it’s a genius tool for killing the lumps

It’s a SHAME that the younger generation of Bajan women can’t cook, all that traditional cooking will be lost forever! In Africa women take PRIDE in being able to cook for friends and family

Love the hospitality everyone has showed you their

Trudy the geera she used in the gravy is cumin girl you just found a new niche start doing a cook out series demonstration when you travel to these various countries . The coo coo is made from yellow cornmeal it is called fungi (fungee) in the Virgin Islands and in Puerto Rico funchi.

Good welcome ❤,the people of Barbados 🇧🇧 seem very friendly,the food looks good, bon a petit, the houses in the neighborhood are colorful and beautiful. 🇬🇶

We use cornmeal here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 alot, we also cooked it similar but with coconut milk and peanut and we call it turn cornmeal, and depending on preference sometimes we also add saltfish to it instead of peanuts and we also mixed it into flour to make dumplings and called it cornmeal dumpling 😊❤

Trudy, Caribbean cuisine is delicious...Some island call it fungi most of them do it with okra, and fish on the side...It's made from yellow corn instead of the white corn.

My co worker from Mali West Africa cooks it the same way we do in Barbados and calls it Cou Cou also.

The food never ready and you don start salivating

Whalosss... cheez-on-bread!!! Hope you tried sweetbread and fishcakes! Cou cou is similar to Ugali from Kenya. In Jamaica we call it Tun-Caan-Meal, we add meats, coconut milk and traditional seasoning (Onions, pepper, pimento seeds, scallion, thyme etc).

Miss Trudy in Panamá where I am there is a province that is called Bocas this is a custom food calalu okro corne meal coconut milk to make the cucu and a nother province Colon all of us eat one pot catfish pigtail salted shrimps and bamy is made with yuca wath you call mandioca all those food were made by our parents and us because when the canal of Panamá was building Barbados Jamaican Africans continent Came to Panamá and work so this a mix country I know all those food it brings a good memory to me steam fish rondón is cocunt milk and seasoning etc

Love you Trudy, hospitality is that way, with the good people of the Caribbean. Grenadian

Trudy our Kenyan girl. We love you. Keep going

They are very nice and kind people and their house is beautiful and smart ...Trudy you are very down to earth very appreciative well done continue representing Africa sending lots of love ❤️ 🇲🇼🇬🇧

I see some similarities with Nigeria ay of cooking as well ..quite interesting. Thanks again for the free education

Very different - we learn everyday🥳Thank you Miss Trudy OUR wife.😎

Trudy thanks so much for show casing this aspect of Barbados. CouCou is becoming a lost skill. Yes the soup is also great.

Come Trinidad or Guyana or Suriname we eat with knife, fork and spoons but we do eat certain curry based dishes with our hands in public. It's perfectly fine.

Thanks you to or doing this particular show. I have been waiting on a content creator to show the diaspora our national dish and how close it is to many African dishes. Thanks for showing the entire process. I have never seen someone not use a Cou Cou stick and opt for a whisk but maybe she is right since her Cou Cou came out so smooth ! Great content . This may be your lane . You may become a travel and food blogger !

Trudy soup is my favorite too just like the lady said. Some places call gravy soup but this is a different kind of soup it’s wholesome and comforting. ❤

in Trinidad and Tobago we cook our coo coo with coconut milk, ochros some people even add carrots and pimento peppers to it.

In Trinidad, we make cookoo with ochroes. At least that is how my mother taught me. My mother's parents were both from Barbados.

Even in Nigeria that is how we do it

So lovely to see my beautiful island portrayed so wonderfully by Maya and Trudy! Thank you. For fellow Bajans please try and visit Africa- especially Ghana and Nigeria. Its like finding missing pieces of a puzzle. Once you visit you will see Barbados from a different perspective 🇧🇧

I love this kind of houses. Would build one in my country. This is a beautiful video

6:31 TRUDY, TRUDY!!! I am from Barbados 🇧🇧 and visited Ghana 🇬🇭 , Africa 🌍 to complete research. On my first day, the waiter recommended a dish to me. I tasted it and was extremely confused because the taste was VERY FAMILIAR to my tongue 👅. I asked the ingredients, and it was maize 🌽 with fish on the side. I inquired of the name: BANKU 😢 I knew then that although our ancestors were removed centuries ago, Bajans 🇧🇧 still retained some of the customers.

Coucou is one of my favorite dishes in Barbados 🇧🇧 Happy New Year 🎊 💞💞🇧🇧🇨🇦

My baby girl you Rock in Barbados 🇧🇧 ❤❤❤❤❤❤🇯🇲🇺🇸

This is great/looks delicious. One critical point though, our folks should be aware that these modern pots & pans are toxic, especially Teflon & aluminum, old school clay pots are available, is what many people in India, South America, Asia & the Mediterranean still use them almost exclusively, they are safe & health supportive, you just have to learn how to use & maintain them. ✌🏾💚🙏🏽.

A good ole bajan soup is by far my favorite meal.loved it from a child. Smiled,when I got home from school and saw a big pot on the stove. I now eat it with bread and butter …

We in Jamaica called it tun cornmeal nice with fish

In the Virgin Islands Coocoo is made the same way with Okra and corn meal but its call Fungi and it usually served with steam fish.

We call it bird pepper in Jamaica. The red one

I really enjoyed this content after work. Thank you for sharing Miss Trudy. Africans we are so beautiful with our uniqueness.

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What a warm, life-giving home. Lively hosts. That meal is stoking my appetite big time! 😊 👋🏾 from Maryland, US

In Antigua and Barbuda we call it Fungie. We also make it with okra.

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Jamaican’s call it turn cornmeal but we don’t put okra or lime in it. We make it with coconut milk sometimes.

Thsnks trudy for bringing African proud God bless you trudy both in and both out❤

Love the houses! That eggplant purple paint🔥Anaya was so beautiful and sweet! I’m with Grandma-soup is my favorite♥️

Wo! Look at those unique weav looking cupboards very different, and beautiful.

The older generations used eat with their hands i grew up seeing my grandmother did it but then that culture was lost in Trinidad some older generations of Hindus still to this day eat with their hands.

I learned from this video, never soaked the cornmeal will try it. Thanks Ms Trudy for bringing Barbados closer to the world, I enjoyed it.

I'm so proud of you and I'm happy how ur showing love to the people ur meeting in ur life that so adorable ❤❤❤❤have a blessed new year sweetheart and I can't wait to test that food ur learning to cook to mum

This is nit as pouplar here like whn i was growing up.. in St.Vincent🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨, although we still make it , we do it with callaloo, butter coconutmilk, ochra. This way is interesting

We eat it in Jamaica as well but we do it different and we add coconut milk yum yum ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇯🇲🇺🇸

This is the same Grandma from Wode Maya video , Grandma home is absolutely 💯 beautiful.

😂 I love the fact that after watching most islands food, you can see the derivatives of our ancestors, " Africa. I'm Jamaican, and we call Cou cuo , Tun corn meal. Instead of okra water, we use cocoanut milk Traditionally, we serve it with steam fresh fish, not can. Bajans generally stick with flying fish, but Jamaican serves it up with various types of fish. From Snapper , Grunt, Parrot, and so much more.... The main difference I observe here is that the gravy simulates the red sauce that the other part of our Nigerian family uses as the base for most meat dishes, with the exception of fewer spices. The world is truly our oyster. What's missing is the abundance of GOD'S ❤ which he has blessed us with through JESUS Christ, our LORD, and Savior. ❤❤❤❤❤

In South Africa, this is putu and tin fish curry...

Oh wow they are very beautiful people 😍😍❤❤❤

I just cooked some yesterday for dinner with enough for lunch today. We'll done ❤❤❤

The Caribbean is compiled of so many countries. Rich in history. Barbados is only the touch of the surface.

Loved seeing the lady flipping the coucou in a bowl. Never knew that. Definitely going to try it out. ... I actually can not find okra in my current location ... but hibiscus leaves are growing in my garden ... and hibiscus leaves and okra are the same family and behave the same way. Works out very well.

Loving these videos of Barbados

Lovely cooking skills from gramdma,i enjoy the video,Nice family, and You meet a Nice ghanian nurse, who explain Nice,i AM looking forward to visita Barbados

I Love You Trudy! No matter how much success you experience, You are YOU❤🎉

Trinidad 🇹🇹 . Coocoo and stew fish

Yes it's so good I love how they make the flying fish

Greatly family's Lord's people rceving the gest Jesus word lovely peoples miss trudy your lukey people love you every where go

This is an experience of a lifetime. Take it all in 🎉🎉❤

As we bajans would say sweet fa days

Go for it our Ghana baby ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This food will taste delicious for sure. Well done to the kitchen, ladies 🎉🎉

In SC, we make sweet potato pone.

The kasava grate is calles here in Panama" enyucado" and it is sold on the street or Made at Home great the yuca" ( kasava )

In Trinidad and Tobago we add pumpkin and coconut also. Good job mom

Keep them videos coming sweetheart, my family and I are enjoying your content ❤❤❤

Such a beautiful home people everything ❤

Great video! We call it Fungi in the US Virgin Islands.

Here to learn how kuku is cooked. I love cooking and trying out new recipes😍😍😍😍