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How do you southerners cook your okra?

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Picked our first okra (the experimental crop of the year)
(some red and some green young pods)
and tried frying them but they didn't seem to have much flavor.
Guess I should have asked you first! What do you recommend?

The red burgundy okra plants are really pretty.
 
sliced thin

bacon cut into small pieces

tossed into a skillit with hot bacon grease. even a bit of onion if ya chose


yum yum

also dipped in cornmeal egg batter an deep fried

in soups
 
1)Fried

cut into 1/2 inch or so pieces, salt and cornmeal(a brown bag with okra and cornmeal and shake..works good)

Oil hot in a iron skillet just enuff to cover the bottom (on medium high)

Dump in Okra, and turn down the heat to about medium
Do not cover, it'll get soggy. Cook until it's golden brown, and keep turnin with a spatula.

Take it out of the skillet and put it on a paper towel to drain.

2) Canned with Tomatoes for goulash and soups

3) Baby one's boiled
Salt and pepper, with just a tiny bit of water
good kitchen spoon full of butter and cover
Cook down till almost all the water is gone and the okra is
slimey........yeap I said slimey LOL
 
All those answers ought to keep me busy for a week of dinners.
Thank you one and all. :D
 
I usta be that way too with the boiled okra. mama would fix it and my innerds would automatically switch gears into reverse without even havin to touch the stuff, just the thought of it. Then for some nother reason, I have no idea why, I decided to try it again a few years ago. Cooked it down like that to almost no water, and they was really good.
They do say your tastes change as you umm......I can't say it........ummmm......well.......have more birthdays :D there...that was nice :lol2:

I wouldn't usta touch boiled cabbage either, but now I love it!!!!
 
I do love Okra. The best is raw right off the plant. Pick one of those about one to 1 and ½ inch long and just eat it. I do love it.
I pick all of my okra young. Over about 3 inches long and it is too hard. It has to be cut every other day to keep it producing and tinder.
I also like the little ones sautéed in butter. Just put a little butter in a frying pan and add a hand full of young raw okra whole with the stem end cut off. . Stir until it starts to brown and eat it.
 
Last year I planted 8 rows 250 feet long and Girlfriend kept it picked. The frezer is still full of okra.
Girlfriend went with me to the seed stor this year. When I ask for a pound of okra seed she said "Hell no you ain't planting none of that stuff this year or you can cut it" So no fresh okra this year but the frizen is almost as good.
 
alabama said:
Last year I planted 8 rows 250 feet long and Girlfriend kept it picked. The frezer is still full of okra.
Girlfriend went with me to the seed stor this year. When I ask for a pound of okra seed she said "Hell no you ain't planting none of that stuff this year or you can cut it" So no fresh okra this year but the frizen is almost as good.
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LOL You do things BIG in Alabama! Can't imagine keeping up with
that many feet of okra plants. Enuf to drive any girl away I'm surprised she stuck around for another summer.
When you freeze it do you blanch it first or just throw it iin the freezer?
 
nr said:
alabama said:
Last year I planted 8 rows 250 feet long and Girlfriend kept it picked. The frezer is still full of okra.
Girlfriend went with me to the seed stor this year. When I ask for a pound of okra seed she said "Hell no you ain't planting none of that stuff this year or you can cut it" So no fresh okra this year but the frizen is almost as good.
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LOL You do things BIG in Alabama! Can't imagine keeping up with
that many feet of okra plants. Enuf to drive any girl away I'm surprised she stuck around for another summer.
When you freeze it do you blanch it first or just throw it iin the freezer?
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Just put it in a zip lock and freze it just like it came off the plant.
 
Faster horses said:
I'm happy to hear you like your girlfriend more than you like okra!! :wink:
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Well we did have a frezer full from last year and it don't do any good to plant it if you don't pick it.
She sold enough last year to keep gas in her car. She was getting about a bucket and a half every other day.
 
nr said:
Picked our first okra (the experimental crop of the year)
(some red and some green young pods)
and tried frying them but they didn't seem to have much flavor.
Guess I should have asked you first! What do you recommend?

The red burgundy okra plants are really pretty.
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You should try it pickled with a hot pepper in it. Good stuff.
 
Not many ways I dont like Okra..

Boiled(slimy)
Fried with cornmeal..

and Creole...thats like the Louisiana version...Okra/tomatos/onions and either put you some sausage or any type of seafood. Spice it up a little with peppers if you want...I cant say how to season cuz when I season its a dab of this and dab of that. My g.mother never showed me propper measuring.

then there is the all time favorite GUMBO...there are so many different types of Gumbo...I like the dark roux. You can put Gumbo in and do a look up on google and you get many many recipes.


Guess with being from the Louisiana side, and my family from there we dont cook like the Bayou part of the state..but, its all about the same except the variances of HOT..lol.

Good luck and have fun with the ideas and let us know how it all comes out. Let the Good Times Roll... :wink:
 
I'm not much up on veggies- but had to look it up to see what okra was...Never saw it before...Must be another one of those "southern thangs" :wink: :lol:
 
OT ...lol I suppose a few years back, got this friend in Nebraska. Well we was talking about food and I told her my favorite was Creme peas and cornbread..she looked at me with a blank stare. Cuz what she called peas and what we call peas aint the samething lmao. We have black eyes, purple hulls, cremes, lady fingers..etc....and she has what we call here English peas lol. Oh and forgot to say I like chow chow on my peas and its the tomato based chow chow...lol that even got her more weird looking or looking at me weird... :???:

So I suppose yep Okra is a Southern Thangggg!! :wink:

But, sure dont know what you are missing...it is all goooddd stuffff!!

Easty
 
Oldtimer said:
I'm not much up on veggies- but had to look it up to see what okra was...Never saw it before...Must be another one of those "southern thangs" :wink: :lol:
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How can you make beef and vegetable soup without okra?

It ain't possible! :lol:
 
Interesting,Like OT I googled Okra,never seen or heard of it before. It didn't look like what I was expecting,was thinking more along a turnip look..don't ask why :???: So tell me what the taste is like.is it like a squash type flavor?

Any other different veggies you guys have we don't?
 

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