Okra Is Good For You As A Vegetable Grilled Okra Recipes

Okra is a vegetable

Today I am learning what to eat to stay healthy and here to tell us all about it. you know or you love it's time and today we're learning about okra I don't eat a lot of okra but we should before us I can yes we can do all kinds of things with it you may be thinking gumbo you know that's kind of the classic okra application. Okra is a vegetable consisting of long tapered green parts the pods contain edible seeds that are delicious and can be eaten raw or cooked. my favorite vegetable in the entire world is okra.

Okra

Okra grows in temperate and tropical climates around the world and is known by many different names, the yellow band is where okra is grown in the world. there are many names for okra they vary based on where you live in what language you speak in the southeastern US. okras are also referred to as gumbo which is also the name of a tasty thick spicy southern stewed.

Okra has been used as a thickening agent in gumbo if you're a word nerd like me then you'll be interested to know that the name gumbo likely comes from king gumbo which is the Bantu word for okra and Bantu is a family of languages.

In West Africa may also come from the Choctaw native Indian word combo means to file, and a file is a herb from the sassafras tree. it's also used in some gumbo recipes. In Pakistan okra is called bhindi and in the English language, it's also called ladyfinger.

Okra Is Good For You

Okra has lots of different health benefits there's a special fiber that's okra. it actually can help people with one of the most common digestive problems. okra has an important fiber, type of fiber in it, and a lot of people with constipation and I know constipation is a huge problem in the United States.

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A lot of people with constipation end up taking all these brand products that can actually irritate the intestine has okra has a type of fiber that actually smoothies the intestine it's gentle. so, it can be very very effective who knew that this too and you know, and if there even researches that it can help prevent kidney disease. if we wrote about it out there that later but yes and even on some anti-aging properties.

How Can You Cook Okra

When okra is cooked. it can get a bit slimy the goopy slime is called mousse to avoid getting slimed by Okra. all you have to do let's try the pods after washing and then drive by it in a hot pan.

we have to pick out some okra all right so let's look at this now okra what we're going to look for is the deep green color. so we don't want to. we want it as dark as possible and we want them to be immature a bit so that means they're crunchy. so, if we wait too long then they're going to start to get sunken in and they may have areas that will even feel mushy.

You're going them in your own kitchen. you can do too now great. it doesn't matter how you cook with it. you can know, you can steam, you can eat it raw, you can do all kinds of things pickle and we're going to a special way to cook with them.

Let's do that cook them with our okra and now what we're going to me so I rinsed them but now what we're going to do first of all I made this very interesting. if you buy the okra with the tops of they will be dry out and almost inedible in the way that we're going to cook those very stringy, very hard, you have to cook them for a long time.

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I'll cook it. so, that you can see what it's like but it's amazing so what you're going to do is cut the tops right off and then slice them in half. we're are want to grill okra now you can eat okra raw, you can eat it in gumbo as we had mentioned you can eat it steamed, you can bake it, you can fry it, you can do all kinds of things, but we're want to grill it I like that, so I'm going to cut the bottom off of this one and you can even hear the difference that it's drier.

A handful of these now I heated this grill is hot and we're going to put them in this is as easy as it gets here grew it like that Easy. now I use the panini grill because it'll cook the top of the bottle at the same time so here it is and now it can stick to the top a little bit some of these but we want to see how nice a grill to lighten those we're only for a couple of minutes.

Now when you cook with okra the citrus will help reduce that sly meanness that you get when you cook it in a soup over it but this you're not going to get much of that I don't know people so if you want to taste now okra is available in the market.

The cooking timing of okra is very less. it's prepared in very little time and easy to cook. it's very quick so it sounds like our okra. okra is almost ready in 5 to 10 minutes. There are many easy methods of cooking okra but in this article, I am writing only grilled okra recipes. I hope you also enjoy these simple and easy recipes of okra.

You can cook them as you wish so what we're going to do is season them with a little bit of don't burn yourself here a little bit of taco seasoning and lime juice. it's an easy way so we'll do a little that and you could do and you could add it before you'll get whatever black in. I'm far-reaching so we should eat a little more okra than we do you know. I admit it I didn't eat a whole lot until today this is.

Okra

So, I'm out here doing a little grilling, and I talked to you all before about grilling okra. All you see is okra, right here, you want these, you want small tender ones okra, you like this okra. here's a little too mature, but I put it on there any way you want little young tender ones that are prime ones right there.

1. Grilled Okra with Olive oil

Ingredients of Grilled okra with olive oil

• Okra = 300 grams
• Olive oil = as required
• Onions = 1 medium
• Tomatoes = 1 medium
• Burger = 1 (eat with okra)
• Salt = as per your taste

Method of Preparation:

Now take some olive oil. I'm going to pour a little bit on here, and then take that brush and dab it around. all right take a little bit of olive oil, and you want to take and brush this olive oil is around on here, so you want to take its olive oil and get it soaked on there good you can roll it in it like that as long as you get some oil on it.

You don't want to put them on they're dry. they will burn won't put a few more here. it's all kind of all stand on this one side of the plate. I'll brush okra, a little bit more afterward you don't have to have a little bit more oil.

I'm sure you could use something else. If you have used olive oil seems to have the best flavor. it's kind of buttery tasting. all right kind of give them a little brush over real quick, so there you go now all you have to do with these, all you need to do is now this simple put them on the grill. it does not take but a few minutes, that's it a few minutes, these will not be slimy either they're not like some bald okra, and they won't be hard either they will be tender.

well, I saved this one it is not a prom sign. it's a little bit too big can you get these on here and a little random about it. so there they are on there I'm telling you this doesn't take but a few minutes is all it is also got some minutes. I'm going ahead and grilling up a little bit of okra. so, I'm telling you now this okra doesn't take a long time you want to turn this okra don't leave it on one side too long. a little bit all off this okra is making it flame up.

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I'll have a little bit more work on these pieces of okra here so I like it. okra is cooking up you see that nice a sizzling. it's not burning though and this will not be slimy, so here we are it's been a few minutes three-four minutes now all right. you see this one here is getting down cooked good. you want them like that right there where they start getting that little bit of browning to it.

On the outside, a little bit of blistering nine and I'm telling you these are very tender and cooked well. I could take these off here for now look at that now don't put these over a super-hot fire. if you do all you're going to do is cook okra, it real quick and burn it on the outside and it's still going to be a little too hard. on the inside slow cooking and take your time and it'll be all right, so I had to go ahead and take this on off the grill it was so hot outside.

you want it you don't want to overcook it don't try to cook it or beneath too much heat too fast don't burn it. I'm telling you that right there is super tender melt cooked up some onions, and some tomatoes from the fridge as well-cooked up.

some burgers here so we're about to eat some lunch so here's another piece. see it bite right off nothing slimy about it tastes good what's the taste like. you like it. It's that good but it does have like you can bite it into it's not slimy or Nothing right so the best way to eat this okra right here well you could eat it alone or you can eat it with friends. the best way to eat it is the okra.

Grilled Okra

2. Grilled Okra With Sauce

Ingredients of  Grilled Okra With Sauce

• Okra = 500 grams
• Paprika powder = 1 tablespoon
• Olive oil = as required
• Salt = as per your taste
• Sour cream = 5 to 6 tablespoon
• Green onions chopped = 1 teaspoon

Method of Preparation:

Today an unusual side dish we're barbecuing okra and serving it with a smoky peppery paprika dip. if you're eating a ton more vegetables these days and so they're so good for you but lately, I've been looking for obscure vegetables and trying to figure out a new way of enjoying them one of my okra.

I do not like slimy soups that happen and yet interesting if you take okra and barbecue it. it is an all-new and remarkable flavor start by taking your okra pod and we slice down the center turn it and slice again don't go through the cap.

You're trying to keep that little pod whole we tossed it a little bit of extra virgin olive oil and salt and then we're going to BBQ it and it barbecues up your side sauce or your dipping sauce is sour cream some chopped green onions a teaspoon of smoked Spanish paprika that's very important and then salt and pepper to taste strip.

Your sauce and when you're okras done. it will look like this and you take your fingers and you dip it in your sauce you know what this gives okra an all-new name this is like fantastic. I love to eat okra you will too be looking for other new and great things.

Grilled Okra With Sauce