Southern

Stewed Okra and Tomatoes

Name: Stewed Okra and Tomatoes
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 lb okra, sliced; 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes; 1/2 onion, chopped; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1 garlic cloves; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 1/8 tsp cayenne

Arlene @arlene_memphis

Stewed Okra and Tomatoes 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.

30 min Easy High fiber Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb okra, sliced
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1/2 onion, chopped
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 garlic cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/8 tsp cayenne

How to cook it

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat and cook the onion and garlic until softened, about 4 minutes.
Add the okra and cook, stirring occasionally, until it starts to soften, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the diced tomatoes, salt, pepper, and cayenne.
Simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the okra is tender and the tomatoes have cooked down thick, about 20 minutes.
Serve hot.

Watch how to cook Stewed Okra and Tomatoes

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 Stewed Okra and Tomatoes, 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. Stewed Okra and Tomatoes carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Stewed Okra and Tomatoes
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: 13 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 330 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Stewed Okra and Tomatoes takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.