What sauce do you use for okra?
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What does okra taste like?
Noémi Paris
2025-10-09 23:08:03
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Okra has a mild, almost grassy flavor that is uniquely okra. While it's sometimes compared to the taste of eggplant or green beans, its texture gets more attention. Okra is crunchy when cooked quickly but becomes almost mouthwateringly tender when slow-cooked. Typically, those who dislike it blame the way okra becomes slimy and silky when it's cooked, but others enjoy it for this same reason. Okra is clearly one of those vegetables that means different things to different people.
Capucine Garcia
2025-10-09 22:42:03
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Every part of the okra plant is game for cooking and eating. The cream-colored flowers, which resemble hibiscus and have a fleeting one-day existence, have a nutty, asparagus flavor. They can be used raw in salads, cooked in stir-fry dishes, or stuffed and fried as you might a squash blossom. The leaves (as well as the blooms) are sometimes added to soups and stews as a thickening agent. But it’s the young, tender pods, with their grassy, green bean-meets-eggplant taste, that get most of the attention in recipes. The slippery liquid that okra pods contain is called mucilage, and the gel-like liquid has thickening properties that are coveted for making stews like gumbo. Puerto Rico Everblush: Bred from a Puerto Rican variety called Puerto Rico Evergreen, the long, thin, ridgeless pods have a sweet pea flavor. Fast and piping hot preparations like roasting, frying, and grilling deliver especially crisp outer skins and tender centers with heightened grassy flavor.
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William Gosselin
2025-10-09 21:28:34
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Overall, I found the taste of okra to be mild and earthy. It’s a bit like other softspoken vegetables like eggplant, in my opinion. Where it really shines is the texture. When roasted or otherwise cooked at a lower temperature, the okra becomes very tender in a very unexpected way. Generally speaking, any high-temperature preparation like frying helps cut down on the sliminess of okra and it becomes a nice crunchy treat.