Khaleeji

Sauteed Okra (Bamia)

Name: Sauteed Okra (Bamia)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Khaleeji
Ingredients: 1 lb okra; 2 tomato; 1/2 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 1/2 tsp baharat; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 1/2 tsp salt

Fatima @fatima_machboos

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

20 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Halal Dairy free Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb okra
2 tomato
1/2 onion
2 garlic cloves
1/2 tsp baharat
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Trim the okra and leave it whole so it stays less sticky as it cooks.
Heat the oil in a wide skillet and cook the chopped onion until soft, about 4 minutes, then stir in the garlic and baharat and cook 1 minute.
Add the okra and chopped tomato, season with salt, and cook uncovered over medium heat for 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the okra is tender and lightly browned.
Finish with a squeeze of lemon and serve warm as the simple vegetable side beside a rice platter.

Watch how to cook Sauteed Okra (Bamia)

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

Bamia Bil Zeit / Okra Braised in Tomatoes/ The best way to enjoy a vegetarian meal Play the video

Serve it with

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

The dish at the centre
- Bayd bil Tamat (Eggs in Tomato Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Cucumber and Laban Salad
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sauteed Okra (Bamia) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Sauteed Okra (Bamia)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
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: 120 kcal
Protein: 2 g
Carbs: 11 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 150 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Sauteed Okra (Bamia) takes about 20 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.