Name: Quick okra with sweet and sour dressing
Yield: Serves four as a side
Ingredients: 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced; ½ tsp sesame oil; 40 g salted roasted peanuts, roughly chopped, to serve; salt and black pepper; 1 tsp maple syrup; 1 lime: finely grate the zest to get 1 tsp, then juice to get 1½ tbsp; 15 g coriander, roughly chopped; 3 tbsp groundnut oil (or other mild oil); 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 700 g okra, stems trimmed (be careful not to expose the seeds, as this will make the dish ‘slimy’)

Preparation info

Serves
four
as a side

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

About

Anyone who loves okra will never stop trying to convert those who think they don’t love okra to the vegetable. Anyone put off by its ‘sliminess’ (which results from it being chopped up and cooked) really should be open-minded here. The okra remains whole and is barely cooked, so the result is the opposite of what you might imagine. This is a lovely side to all sorts of dishes – it’s perfect alongside the whole roast sea bass with soy sauce and ginger – or