Smothered Okra

[egghead]

Picked up a bunch of fresh young okra at a farmer's market this spring to cook down, freeze in containers, and use in gumbos when it cold (like around 82 degrees ). I make two kinds of gumbo with okra - chicken okra gumbo and shrimp okra gumbo and we like it cooked till it almost disappears. The okra acts as a thinkening agent and therefore only need a small roux and some folks go with no roux when cooking with smothered okra.

Okra, tomatoes, and onion




Put it on the XLBGE and slow cook with a little EVOO in the pan - stir it every hour or so.

[JamesB]

Interesting... Wife picked some okra this morning, but sure she gonna want it fried. Not really enough of it to do much else this time.