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Taps
20 yrs ago
Boil the okra for a few minutes, flung in water with ice to keep the firmness and colour.
Make the Japanese-style dressing in advance.
Two tablespoon of soy sauce(Kikkoman if you have), some rice vinegar, thinly cut garlic and ginger, some sugar and a dash of sesame oil, mixed them together or in a bottle, shake it very well and put in the fridge for a day and you have perfect dressing for okra, good on its own.
Otherwise mix together some lettuce, tomato, pumpkin(cooked by microwave), thinly sliced onion and okra, any left-over in the fridge, and you have a healthy salad.
The dressing keeps well.
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Taps
20 yrs ago
Okra should be let on its own, but I also like it in my curries.
In my home country, we boil okra and dip it in anchovy sauce or nampla/soy sauce with a tiny chili.
Yummy.
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TNMom
20 yrs ago
The ONLY way to fix okra is to slice it and toss with some cornmeal and fry it in a little oil. Sprinkle with salt and serve.
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if you're willing to try out some complicated indian recipes - i'll post some once i get back from holiday. The recipes are not hard - but people who are not used to the number of things that indians add in their food preparations find them hard to follow.
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etnad
20 yrs ago
What is most disliked about okra in my home country is it is slimy when cooked (boiled, or cooked in a saucy recipe). If it is not sauteed with other veges, it is usually cooked alone and dipped in some sauce or dressing. And the best method of cooking is either frying with little oil, or roasting in an oven or an oven toaster.
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My experience with okra is limited to gumbo - check it out on the net for a recipe. It is a wonderful, down-home Cajun stew, served over rice. But I will not make gumbo without okra. Now I can get it in Shanghai!!
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I love okra too and I have a recipe for marinated okra which I always make and serve as part of my hor d eouvres for vegetarian friends, and okra muffins . Let me know if you're interested and I'll send them to you.
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Hi, this is a very simple Indian recipe. Just wash the okra and let them dry a bit. After that cut them around half inch small sizes(simply hold them and cut cut cut...dont measure each piece). Now deep fry them and them out untill crispy enough and sprinkle salt, red chilli pwdr, corriander pwdr, mango pwdr(if available)and eat with paratha or chapati along with daal.
One more is simply cut them and fry onion. After the onion gets little pinkish in colour add salt, chopped ginger,red chilli pwdr,corriander pwdr, turmeric pwdr. Mix them well and add around one tbsp water to it. Let it fry untill oil comes out and then add cut okra to it.....After 10-15 minutes covering your okra...will be ready. Just check it with spoon.If it is soft than make paratha ready and it wth it.
thank you.
manya
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Hi I like okra too but i found it is hard to wash it - how do you wash it? it is a bit slimy/sticky inside...
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788
19 yrs ago
After you wash okra, you have to make sure it is dry before cutting. Otherwise, it gets even more sticky and slimy.
A trick in most Indian recipes (not fried, sauteed okra) is to leave it uncovered (for zero moisture)and on high flame till the sliminess goes away (you have to keep sautee-ing it or it will get burnt)- you can and will have a non slimy okra dish!
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Thanks 788. So i have to wash as a whole and dry it before cutting. i will try....
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788
19 yrs ago
Hi! Yes, wash it whole and dry. The stickiness won't go away but at least it will be a lot less. It is already sticky inside, water on contact makes it even more so. I also put salt after it is almost cooked and the stickiness is over for the same reason ie water content is kept at minimum. Good luck!
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