Southern

Fried Okra

Name: Fried Okra
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1.5 lb okra, sliced into rounds; 1 cup cornmeal; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 3/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp cayenne; 2 cups cooking oil

Tamika @tamika_clt

Fried Okra is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb okra, sliced into rounds
1 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne
2 cups cooking oil

How to cook it

Pat the sliced okra dry.
Mix the cornmeal, flour, salt, pepper, and cayenne on a plate, and toss the okra in the mixture to coat.
Heat about 1/2 inch of oil in a heavy skillet to 350F.
Fry the okra in batches, without crowding, until deep golden and crisp, about 4 minutes, turning occasionally.
Drain on a rack, season with a little extra salt, and serve hot. Unlike the soft, spoonable dish 55, this one is dry and eaten with fingers.

Watch how to cook Fried Okra

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fried Okra, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Fried Okra carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Fried Okra
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 310 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 40 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 430 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Fried Okra takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.