3/17/2024 0 Comments Soul food stewed tomatoes and okra![]() This Virtual Potluck explores Black food through the lens of Afrofuturism. I’m proud to collaborate with more than 30 Black recipe developers as we celebrate Black History Month 2022. How to Store Smothered Okra and Tomatoes.How To Make Smothered Okra and Tomatoes Recipe.Feedback is always welcome and appreciated. If you want to thicken the okra, chicken, and sausage up a bit you can remove the lid from the pot and let it cook down for another 15 minutes or so.Īs always thank you for taking a few moments from your day to read over this and I hope that you are able to try this recipe sometime and that you enjoy it. Once your okra is dry remove it from the oven and add it to the pot with everything else.(By this point in the cooking process your okra should be about dry.) Lower the heat to low add tomato sauce, sugar, dried oregano, dried parsley, and chicken broth to the pot.Slice smoked sausage into 1/2 inch pieces and add it to the pot with the chicken and vegetables and cook for another 5 minutes.Brown chicken on all sides about 10 minutes. Season chicken with Creole seasoning and add it to the pot.Add the onion, belle pepper, and celery to the pot and cook them down until the onions have begun to brown just a bit.Heat the olive oil in a heavy bottom pot over medium to medium high heat preferably a cast iron dutch oven if you have one. While the okra is in the oven drying it's time to start getting everything else going.You want the okra to become dry without burning it. Dry out the okra in the oven for about 1 hour, flipping occasionally. Spread okra out onto a baking sheet and place it in the oven to dry the slime out of the okra.I look forward to researching this further and discussing it with y’all in 2019. That spoonful of food led me to posting this picture on Twitter with the question, “Why is okra such a staple of southern cuisine?” That question led to a discussion on Twitter among foodies, food historians, Southerners, and other about okra’s significance in the Southern diet. A spoonful of stewed okra that I cooked using my grandmother’s recipe that was passed down to me by my mom (along with the help of a couple of my aunts over the phone) brought me to the many times we would visit my grandparents and there would be a pot of stewed okra waiting on the stove for us. How did this all come to be you may ask? Well, with a spoonful of food that I had not eaten in probably 10 years that transported me back to my youth and a time of great joy in my life. Last year I feel like I truly began to understand what Food is Love Made Edible really means. Last year laid the foundation for where my future in the food and culinary world will venture into. Last year marked a change in the way that I look at the plate of bowl of food in front of me. In 2018 my mind was opened to the significance of food in our lives more than it had been in the past. It’s something that I can only describe as the true way that food is truly love made edible. The taste and smell immediately bring me back to visiting them both here in Louisiana as we grew up in Alabama. ![]() ![]() There is no meal that makes me think of both of my grandmothers more than smothered okra. Have you ever eaten a meal that brought tears to your eyes? Only one meal does that for me smothered okra.
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