re: How do yall cook okra

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My mom would boil it, plate it, salt pepper and pour vinegar on it and we would eat it just like that

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I steamed some a few nights ago to go with some chicken I baked. When done to my liking I simply squeezed lemon juice over the pods, added a bit of olive oil and then seasoned them with salt and black pepper.

I do love it fried, but with cholesterol issues, I really have cut back on eating it like that and maybe do it once every 3-4 months for a treat with other fried vegetables like zucchini, eggplant, broccoli, green tomatoes and some fried dill pickle slices.

I could eat okra any way but raw.

My wife slices it up rather thin, adds some bacon grease to a cast iron skillet and sort of "blackens/smothers" it down. I can eat my weight in it. If I had a recipe I would share it.

Just this week we did some okra and tomatoes (frozen okra, canned tomatoes) and it was fantastic.

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I have either fried it, pickled it, or cooked it in gumbo

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This

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I love to broil it.

Pick it small- no bigger than 3”.
Cut off the stem and toss in olive oil
Lay on a baking sheet and sprinkle with sea salt
Bake on 400*

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Came to post this. I grew up with it battered and fried and love it that way, but broiling it is so freaking simple and good that I've never looked back.

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I’ve smothered it down with andouille sausage and shrimp

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now that sounds good

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toss it in olive oil and seasonings, and roast it in my air fryer

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I’ve tried that. It’s much better fried in oil than air fried.

This is my mom's method and how I prep okra for freezing. When I want some I'll take a bag out of the freezer, let it thaw, and brown tasso or sausage or sausage and tasso, or chunks of deboned chicken breast and sausage or tasso.. or leftover barbeque and add the prepped okra. you can add shrimp or any other protein you want to combine with it. I like smoked, salt pork.

Directions for smothered okra

3 quarts cleaned and cut in 1/2” rounds, long horn okra
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 medium onion, diced
½ of large bell pepper, diced
½ of large jalapeno pepper seeded and cut in rings
1 can original Rotel tomatoes (drain and reserve juice)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Put ¼ cup vegetable oil in (oven safe) dutch oven.
Add cleaned and cut okra. Bake stirring gently, occasionally until okra loses its slime. Push okra to one side and add onion, bell pepper, jalapeno and drained rotel tomatoes. After seasonings are wilted, mix okra and seasonings and set aside until completely cooled.

Bag in freezer bags or vacuum sealed bags and add the reserved RoTel juice to the bags to moisten the okra and freeze til ready to use.