Cherokee okra.

[buffaloberry]

 What's going on folks! There are a couple of types of okra grown by the Cherokee including long pod and red okra 98 a red okra grown from on the Eastern Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. Y'all heard of these before? How did Cherokees ate their okra before? Were they fried, grilled or what? I've never had okra before, but like to taste them fresh. Please throw down some feedback and stuff if you all got anything to add. Thanks!

[macmex]

Blake, I don't have documentation on it but suspect they ate it just like other folk of that era, fried or in soup/gumbo. I have no idea if folk did stir fry back then, in this neck of the woods.

To eat it, I'd recommend that you pick some while it's still tender. If you use a knife and try slicing into a pod you should feel very little "pull" and hear nothing. That's how I test my pods. Heavyhitterokra may have more and better instructions for you on this. Once you have some picked, try dicing some up and frying it in some olive oil, perhaps with some onions and tomatoes, but straight okra works. Salt lightly and you are good to go. Many bread their okra. That's delicious too. I just do it because I don't need the extra calories.

Here's a link to a cook book you might purchase Gun & Garden. I don't have it, though someday I'd like to get a copy. The review sounds great!

[heavyhitterokra]

My favorite way to eat okra is to pick it tender, then brush it with olive oil and sprinkle it with seasoned salt. I place several on a skewer and put them on the grill to roast until slightly blackened. You can also cook it that way using a wiener stick. We often slice it about 1/2" inch wide, mix it with cornmeal, salt, pepper, and garlic to fry.

My wife and I once fried 30 pounds of okra for a family reunion. It took us two hours, using two homemade woks made from plowing disks with a plug welded in, 5 pounds of okra at a time.

It's also very good dehydrated. We season it the same as if we were going to fry it, except we cut it into 3/4" inch slices because of shrinkage. It will store in dry form for about a year before it gets old tasting. At that point, we feed it to my wife's pet deer.

[amyinowasso]

I season it like Heavyhitter drizzle with olive oil and roast in the oven. I order it breaded and fried in restaurants, but I don't like to fry at home. I have breaded it and then coated in olive oil and roasted it in the oven. Young and tender are good raw. It is very nutritious.
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