Roasted Okra

[makattak]

This is our preferred method of preparing okra (behind pickling, but that's much more involved):

Slice okra.
Season with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Cook at 400° for 10-12 minutes.
Cool.
Serve.

Very quick and easy and even had people who thought they disliked okra asking for more. It counteracts the "slimy" effect that turns many people off.

[K Frame]

I prefer my okra in a garbage can.

I've never been able to develop a taste for it no matter how it's prepared. Roasted, fried, boiled, stewed, gumbo, whatever, I don't like it.

[BobR]

I prefer my okra in a garbage can.

I've never been able to develop a taste for it no matter how it's prepared. Roasted, fried, boiled, stewed, gumbo, whatever, I don't like it.

I am the same way, I used to get shipped off to Alabama every summer to give my parents a break and I had an Aunt there that would boil it until she had a bowl of this slimy green stuff. I don't think she even chewed the stuff, just let it slide down her gullet. 

Bob (still gives me the shivers!!)

[makattak]

I am the same way, I used to get shipped off to Alabama every summer to give my parents a break and I had an Aunt there that would boil it until she had a bowl of this slimy green stuff. I don't think she even chewed the stuff, just let it slide down her gullet. 

Bob (still gives me the shivers!!)

It's not slimy at all when roasted. May want to try it that way. (I don't care for the slimy preparations, either.)

Deep fried is very tasty too.

[BobR]

It's not slimy at all when roasted. May want to try it that way. (I don't care for the slimy preparations, either.)

Deep fried is very tasty too.

Kind of a funny story. After I left the Navy and decided to go to nursing school I moved back to Oklahoma. During my Nutrition class a few of the women in the class discovered that fried okra wasn't in the text book for a calorie count. It seemed that in the 25 years I was gone from the area fried okra had become a thing. From the size of some of those women it was a big thing, something they would eat everyday, but I digress. Anyhow, they raised such a stink about it that someone called the textbook company and the very next year the new textbooks had okra prepared every imaginable way listed so they could do their calorie counts and what not.

I have looked at fried okra and my mind just keeps saying "nope" to that also.

bob

[K Frame]

"Deep fried is very tasty too."

Yeah....

No it's not.

 

 


I've had it just about every way it can be prepared. If I can't eat it fried, there's no way I'm going to be able to eat it.


That said, I can tolerate it in gumbo, but I'm not crazy about it.

That vexes me, because I don't like not liking certain things.

[Larry Ashcraft]

I once made the mistake of eating a whole one from my mother in law's stew.  I about gagged.

A friend of ours (from Texas) once talked me into growing some so she could show us the joys of fried okra.  It tasted like fried corn meal.  Some people like it pickled, but I'll stick to my dill pickles.

[charby]

I like pickled okra

[grislyatoms]

Grandad's deep fried okra was the only okra I would eat. Campbell's Vegetable soup (Alphabet) had Okra in it too, way back when. I remember the little soft, brown seeds. Also had barley. And baby lima beans and peas. I remember!  Typical lunch ~1972 (for me) was a bologna sandwich and a bowl of Campbell's Vegetable/Alphabet soup.
Now, it's just tomato juice, potatoes, and Alphabet pasta. Basically. Not the same.

[brimic]

I read the topic as ‘roasted orca,’ but am disappointed that the thread is about a barely edible plant