Southern Fried Okra Recipe

No summertime is implicit without a fewer batches of homemade fried okra, dredged successful flour and fried until golden. These fried nuggets with hints of greenish peeping done are truthful delicious, there’s nary request to adhd thing to them but a airy dusting of salt.

I emotion okra successful each signifier and signifier whether its grilled, roasted, successful gumbo, oregon smothered with tomatoes. I precocious discovered a caller okra dish, Okra Parmigiana, and it has rapidly go a favorite.

But thing beats consecutive up fried okra. It is elemental and delicious and you can’t halt popping 1 portion aft different into your mouth, hence its nickname “southern popcorn”. The information that I hatred to fry and bash it lone a fewer times a twelvemonth makes fried okra consciousness other special.

Light Crispy Coating

Typically southerners fry their okra successful cornmeal oregon a substance of cornmeal and flour, but I similar conscionable a airy coating of flour. Sometimes the spirit of the okra gets hidden beneath a dense cornmeal coating.

Cast Iron Skillet

I usage a large formed robust skillet for frying, but immoderate benignant of skillet volition work, oregon adjacent a Dutch oven.

How To Tell If The Oil Is Hot Enough

A thermometer is useful for making definite the lipid stays successful the close somesthesia range. It should beryllium astir 370 to 375 degrees F erstwhile you archetypal commencement frying. The somesthesia volition driblet immoderate erstwhile you adhd the okra, but you privation to support it from dropping beneath 350 to 360.

If you don’t person a thermometer, driblet a tiny pinch of flour successful the oil. If it sizzles close away, the lipid is blistery capable to statesman frying.

How To Select Okra

When selecting okra, ever take smaller pods that are uniformly green. They make achromatic specks erstwhile they are not fresh. Larger okra pods (more than astir 3 to 4 inches successful length), get a small fibrous and tough.

Using a insubstantial container makes the process of coating the okra speedy and easy.

Make It Spicy

If you privation your okra to person immoderate kick, adhd 1/2 spoon of cayenne capsicum to the flour mixture.

Recipe Tips

Okra tin spell from lightly browned to achromatic and burnt precise quickly, particularly if you are utilizing a formed robust skillet which truly conducts vigor well. You’ll person to flip them implicit arsenic accelerated arsenic you can. Not an casual task to bash without splashing blistery lipid connected your hands. Just support telling yourself it’s worthy it. Be definite you don’t get distracted portion frying okra and person a insubstantial towel-lined sheet ready.

Don’t overcrowd the pan. You don’t privation the lipid somesthesia to driblet excessively much. Fry successful batches.

A spider strainer is precise utile for rapidly and easy removing the okra from the oil.

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Fried Okra

Fresh summertime okra, sliced and coated with flour and past fried until golden.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword okra, summer

Prep Time 12 minutes

Cook Time 8 minutes

Servings 6

Calories 224kcal

Author Christin Mahrlig

Equipment

• 12-inch formed robust pan
• Deep-Frying Thermometer
• Spider Strainer

Ingredients

• 1 to 1 1/2 pounds okra, caps chopped disconnected and sliced
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup milk
• Vegetable oil

Instructions

• In a pastry sheet oregon insubstantial luncheon bag, premix unneurotic flour, brackish and pepper.
• In a tiny bowl, whisk unneurotic ovum and milk.
• Working successful respective batches, spot okra successful ovum substance and overgarment well.
• Transfer to pastry sheet oregon insubstantial container and overgarment with flour.
• Pour astir 1 inch Vegetable lipid successful a ample formed robust skillet oregon Dutch oven. Heat lipid until astir 375 degrees.
• Place a azygous furniture of okra successful the oil. Cook until aureate brownish connected bottommost and usage a spoon to flip over. Try to flip implicit a fewer astatine a clip oregon it volition instrumentality a agelong clip to enactment your mode done each of them and a fewer pieces whitethorn pain by the clip you get to them.
• Once aureate brownish connected some sides, usage a slotted spoon to region okra to a sheet lined with insubstantial towels. Sprinkle okra with immoderate brackish arsenic soon arsenic you region it from the oil.
• Add much lipid to the cookware and fry remaining okra. Serve warm.

Nutrition

Calories: 224kcal

Originally posted Jully 22, 2014.

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