Okay, as bad as this may sound, I have NEVER had okra before. Dh's g-parents have fields of veggies and are always bringing us food. I have tomatoes, squash and cucumber coming out of my ears but I know what to do w/ all of those. They gave us a big bag of okra too... what do I do with okra? How do I prepare it? What do I make with it?? HELP!!! I'm clueless. I even had to look at the veggie to figure out what it looked like. I couldn't even remember. That's how little I know about okra. If they hadn't told me that was what it was then I wouldn't have known. *hangs head in shame* Please advise!
Oh Lordie! Sherriet has it right on!
I slice it up and fry it in a little bacon fat...then, I can combine it with corn, or add it to stewed tomatoes.
Roll it in corn meal and re-fry or batter it and deep fry it OMG!
To get around the slime, you could also dry 'fry' it on a non-stick pan to dry it before adding it to veggies.
I have even seasoned with with Crab Boil and had it with fish dishes. But, the battered and fried is so awesome! But don't tell my Little Black Book-Daily Food Diary!!! lol
Okra soup...usually beef based (you can boil down ox tail to make your own broth or just use a beef or vegetable broth) i usually make it with vegetable broth, onions and tomatoes and we have it with brown rice...its very good. or...stewed tomatoes and okra..also good over rice.
Quoting sherriet:Okra is on e of our favorites! We're going to grow it starting next year.
HTH,
S
have grown okra from seed; it produces quite a few per plant, kind of like zucchini only smaller. You need to keep it picked pretty young and small or the okra pods grow big and woody.
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- ziff130
on Jul. 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM