I hate articles like this because if it gets popular soon health influencers will be telling everyone that eating okra and fenugreek will cure all diseases or that taking some proprietary okra/fenugreek supplement will cure all diseases.
Okra is the most unpleasant vegetable I ever did eat
But if it helps save the world, it’ll have my eternal respect.
You just didnt have good okra then! Good chef can easily control the goeiness and other attributes.
My favorite take is simply young quality fruits on a skewer grilled on low heat with butter, salt and chilly and its absolutely delicious. It’s very big in China especially with sichuan chily flakes.
Man when you’re talking about the “goeiness” of a vegetable, I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it.
They’re pretty good batter fried. Good for stew too if used appropriately, too much okra can make the stew boogery in texture
Fried okra is too damn good. The best tasting way to eat it.
Even in Creole dishes? Or Southern fried?
I wouldn’t know. The only Okra I ever ate was the one my mother made when I was a teen. And it was slimy and gooey and got my autism going crazy.
Nowadays I don’t eat dishes that have it, or do but push it aside.
Shouldn’t be slimy and gooey when prepared well. Sounds like a cooking fail.
In my culture, properly cooking okra is a rite of passage/test of a good homemaker (I hate that word). Kind of as a difficult task to separate the men from the boys. (Well not specifically men and boys. You know what I mean.) It reflects on how you were taught to cook and manage a household as well, so it’s a test of the household you came from, in a way.
Simultaneously, okra occupies the same cultural context that my child self saw for broccoli in western cartoons. The unpleasant vegetable your mom makes you eat. Only I never found broccoli to be foul at all, and my parents don’t like okra so I never had to eat it lol
How about a good enough cook? Because knowing how to cook without trashing the kitchen in process is a feat worthy of respect. Took me a few years to achieve.
I think I was being obvious about holding my nose and using outdated words to imply my own distaste for how it’s still thought of around me.
I just suggested a more neutral expression, for future use. That expression doesn’t have an equivalent in my language but I understood your words. Carrying around bagage of that sort just weighs us down; I went through a similar situation in my life and it was not pleasant.
Okra is amazing. You never really know the greatest of it, unless you’re in the south and grow up with it.
Fried okra alone with some ranch? Amazing
Okra with your fried steak and mash potatoes? Amazing
Okra with a side of hush puppies and cottage cheese? Amazing
So many options really. Throw it in the oven for a great snack. Healthy all around. Believe in Okra. It’s here to save the planet and I’m here for it.
They make pretty flowers too.Counterpoint: one piece of slimy okra from someone who didn’t know how to cook it will turn you off to it forever (in my case at least)
how do u cook it right? i wanna try it now
I found this on the german Wikipedia article (but not on the English one) to Okra but was to lazzy to translate it all so Deepl took over.
"When cooked, the pod releases pectin, a slimy substance that is suitable for thickening dishes. If you want to do without it, you can either blanch the okras in vinegar water for five minutes (first cut off the tip and remove the stem) and then rinse with cold water or soak them in cold lemon water for one to two hours before processing.
Another method of cooking the pods without producing mucilage is to cut off the stem only enough to leave the pod intact (or leave the stem intact) and cook the okras in the oven only until they are soft. They can then be mixed with other cooked vegetables, for example. The classic way is to mix the cooked pods with tomato sauce and garlic. "
You can’t. It’s always disgusting.
It’s a staple vegetable in Asia. Not its fault you never tried it cooked correctly.
Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew.
I’m guessing by the recipes you mean Southern USA. I thought okra was from somewhere in Asia, but Wikipedia tells me it’s from East Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea and “East Sudan” - which is kinda funny as there’s a Sudan and South Sudan).
In Asia, there’s what’s called Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai okra, but those are actually in a completely different plant family than actual okra and closely related to squash. If picked while immature, they’re said to taste similar to actual okra. You can find them in Asian markets. They’re in the luffa genius and if fully grown, they’re used like sponges for scrubbing.
You had me at fried okra 😋 but lost me at ranch 😣
Proper homemade ranch, not that nasty Hidden Valley shit. It’s pretty great.
My siblings and I would occasionally eat raw okra from our garden growing up. They’re covered in fuzz that is really soft when they’re small, and it’s quite a weird texture experience with slimy ball-bearing-like seeds on the inside lol
This article has made me realize it has been way too long since I last had gumbo or jumbalaya or any good homemade southern cooking. :(
My grandmother made the best okra gumbo. Haven’t found anything like it since. Damn. It’s not cold outside but I want some good okra gumbo now lol
I love okra, but my wife hates it. This article will by no means be used to influence one side of that debate.
Now the world will have to start reacting to Micro-Okra in the water? When will this end‽
The microkra
That’s very nice of them
publication title is “Fenugreek and Okra Polymers as Treatment Agents for the Removal of Microplastics from Water Sources” which makes it a bit better to get what they are doing. Here is a significant sentence of the abstract "The microplastic removal efficiency of polysaccharides derived from fenugreek, okra, and the combination of okra and fenugreek in the ratio of 1:1 was studied in simulated and water samples collected from various sources under bench-scale laboratory conditions. "
I fucking LOVE okra and I’m glad to see that it’s even good at other things than me turning it into the most delicious, crispy and nutritious snack you’ve ever had. When you cook them right like we do down south (yeee-haw!), they’ll never be slimy like that shit you get in the freezer section at a grocery store.
I got 8 okra stalks just coming up in my garden that will yield me many, many pounds of okra throughout this summer.
What’s the go on cooking it good? Can you link some recipes? Thx.
Cut off the stem end
Slice lengthwise
Drizzle with chili oil and salt
Roast at 425 for 25-30 minutes, turning once
That’s literally all you need to do for an amazing crispy and spicy snack
Are you anywhere near VA? I need yo to cook me some okra so I can find out what it’s like not slimy.
Nah man okra still nasty
Glad to know okra is good for SOMETHING. lol.
