Okra Soup

Name: Okra Soup
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 3 quarts of water, salt and pepper.; 2 onions; 2 pints of okra; 2 tablespoons of butter; 6 tomatoes; 3 of parsley; 2 sprigs of thyme; 1 small chilli pepper; 1 bayleaf; 3 quarts of water, salt and pepper.; 3 quarts of water, salt and pepper.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Recipes of all Nations

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

About

Okra (hibiscus esculentus) is a delicious vegetable, much used in American cookery and more particularly in the Southern States. It is glutinous and succulent, with a very distinctive flavour, but can only be obtained in tins in this country.

Ingredients

2 pints of okra
2 onions
6 tomatoes

Americas
United States
Soup
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

When using fresh okra, the vegetable is well washed, the stem removed, and it is cut in fine slices. Fry the finely chopped onions in butter, add the herbs, the chopped tomatoes, stir all well, simmer for 10 minutes and add the okra. When well browned add the hot water, season with salt, pepper and the chilli pepper and simmer for 1½ hours. When using tinned okra, the soup need