Okra

What’s it like? What do you do with it?

 

Not a lot, needs to be grown under cover and well fed. Also known as Lady's Fingers and used in Gumbo, soups and curries.

 

I was wondering about the flavour? Can it be compared to something else? Or are we talking non-descipt?

 

I have eaten it, but the taste wasn't that memorable more of a texture thing. however I do have a poor senses of both taste and smell.

 

Gotcha. Thanks Nigel

 

I should probably have posted this elsewhere. I don’t intend on growing it, just wondered what the flavour was like, and it’s uses

 

Okra is also used in medicine. It's high in vitamin K. It has also been found to have albumin and serum qualities and has been used as blood volume expander in cases of extreme blood loss. It also has beneficial attributes relating to some forms of cancer.

 

Good info, ta

 

I was going to mention compost heap,

But was thinking it was just me.

So I'm not so strange after all.

 

I am no expert but I do enjoy cooking and trying new concoctions etc. I sometimes think that we perhaps need to spend a lottle more time experimenting with less familiar foods. We have become so use to much the same diet. Ir's like going abroad and asking for cod and chips.

 

Okra..mmmmm..yummy. its one of my very first dish I made ready when mum come home after hard working day in my teens, picking fresh tender okra from plants ,cut into cubes and saute /fry with mustard and cumin seasoning and with onions,garlic and add salt and chilli. or stew them with sweat and sour ingredients which can be substituted with berries here. there are hell lot of dishes (google with 'Andhra Okra dishes' not all of them go slimy as its more to do growing conditions in my opinion .

I now only buy okra from supermarket as kids love them fried okra with rice.


they grow better in direct soil under cover, than in pots .

 

As above...
Cooked as a stew with water it is slimey.
If dry fried it's not.
I used to grow with when I lived in rural Papua New Guinea because the local veg in my area were all soft and I wanted something different. I'd only grow it here if it was a veg I particularly liked, which I don't. I bought a pack of seed cheap one year and tried growing it in the UK but my plants damped off. I think it'd need lots of sun and either a polytunnel or good weather.
It's got a lovely flower though, like a hollyhock. I think the red variety is excellently decorative. The regular one has a yellow flower. It's in that Malvaceae family so shares pests with those plants.