Savannah, GA, Okra and Tomatoes

Name: Savannah, GA, Okra and Tomatoes
Yield: serves 8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon margarine (or substitute butter); 3 slices of bacon – de-rinded and chopped; 2 lb fresh okra – washed, destalked and cut into ½in lengths; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 lb tinned tomatoes

Preparation info

serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Mrs Wilkes’s Boarding House is a lunchtime institution in Savannah, Georgia. Every weekday for 40 years she has served up steaming dishes of home cooking to a communal table of paying guests. This is her dubious sounding but good-tasting tomato and okra gumbo.

Ingredients

2 lb fresh okra – washed, destalked and cut into ½in lengths
2 lb tinned tomatoes<

Americas
United States
Stew
Gluten-free
September

Method

Stew together in a covered pan over medium heat for 20 minutes.