5 authentic okra Recipes

fresh okra, all-purpose flour, yellow plain cornmeal (stoneground is best), egg, beaten, salt, pepper, lard or vegetable oil

water, chicken (5 lb), cut up, onions, quartered, celery ribs, cut into 3-inch pieces, garlic cloves, coarsely chopped, salt, garlic powder, poultry seasoning, cayenne pepper, pepper, white pepper, canola oil, all-purpose flour, onion, finely chopped, johnsonville andouille sausage links, chopped, sliced okra, shucked oysters, gumbo file powder, hot cooked rice

fresh tomatoes, white onions, daikon radishes, tamarind powder or 100 g fresh tamarind juice, pork, green chilies, taro root, bok choy, leaves or 150 g chinese spinach, water , with pork broth cubes or 1 kg pork broth, okra, eggplants

qts. chicken stock (must be homemade!), flour, oil, chicken or guinea hen, without giblets, cut up, andouillesausage , sliced about 1/4 thick on the bias (you may substitute hot or mild smoked sausage if good andouille isn tsp available) and/or fresh creole hot sausage, browned, shrimp, peeled and deveined, blue crabs, cleaned, broken in half and claws pulled off (or for a more elegant looking gumbo, omit and instead add 1-1/2 lb lump white crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage), okra, sliced (leave out if you don tsp like okra, but be sure to add file at the end if you leave out the okra), onions, chopped, green onions with tops, chopped, bell peppers, chopped, ribs celery, chopped, several cloves garlic, minced, bay leaves, fresh parsley, chopped, black, white and cayenne peppers , to taste, salt to taste, few dashes tabasco , or to taste., file powder (only if you don tsp use okra!), steaming hot louisiana long-grain rice