![]() Stir it for few minutes or till they are almost cooked. Once you are done half cooking the okra and boil the beef ahead, it will be easier to cook the beef bamia.įirstly, add oil in the pan and then add onion & garlic when the oil is hot. Cooking in the pressure cooker takes only 35 to 45 minutes which is faster. Also, you will have even less beef stock to make a soup since boiling for a long time can cause the liquid to evaporate.įor this reason, I prefer pressure cooker since you have a very tender meat, and yet you also have more stock to make the soup. If you are boiling the beef on the pot, it will take at least 2 hours which is time consuming. There are 2 ways to cook the beef: Using pressure cooker or cooking on the pot. ![]() These techniques work in both fresh and frozen okra which you can use either one of them for your bamia recipe. Once you are done, you can start transferring into the pot and simmer together with the beef and the other ingredients. I just half cook the okra since I only focus on reducing the sliminess of this vegetable. While stir-frying, this will help remove the sliminess of the okra. So what I did first, I stir-fried the okra with a tablespoon of olive oil in the pan for several minutes. Having your tomato okra soup slimy does not look appetizing. It is possible when making the soup you put directly in the pot while boiling this vegetable. When people try okra, most of them say it is very sticky or slimy. There are two ways you can cook the bamia: Stir frying or boiling along with the rest of the ingredient. That way, it will be more convenient when preparing the ingredient What is the best way to cook the okra? Notes: You should stir fry the okra and boil the beef earlier before you start cooking. Lastly, I am using beef with bones, and the stock from the beef meat that I boiled. Olive oil gives a nice flavor when cooking the beef and making a stew, and it is also much healthier than other vegetable oil. ![]() In addition to the spices, you also need garlic, onion, fresh tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil, and okra. It adds a slight sourness of the bamia stew which makes the dish very tasty. Out of all these spices, the Black Lemon or Dried Lime is the most difficult to find in the Philippines. My father sends me these spices from Kuwait, but you can purchase it in many Middle Eastern grocery stores. These are popular spices that are used in Middle Eastern and Arabic cuisines. Try and see what you like best.To make Arabic Bamia recipe, there are several spices you need for this dish: If you exclude the meat in the okra recipe below, you'll get the basic recipe with tomato sauce.Īt the Lebanese restaurant, I had okra as a cold salad/snack, with tomato sauce. ![]() You can make okra ragout-style with diced pieces of meat. I made okra with minced beef, to reduce the cooking time. As for the combinations in which you can cook this vegetable, the simplest would be with onion, garlic and tomato sauce, and with meat, according to your preferences. Otherwise, the taste and texture are quite close to the ones of the eggplant. ![]() but, if you cook it in such a way that the food is not soaked in sauce, then the texture is not noticeable and you can eat it. The only "small" problem is that mucilaginous texture, which some like very much and others definitely don't. If you look for the nutritional values and vitamins of okra, you'll discover that this vegetable is wonderful and very good to introduce in the family menu. It was really good and I started testing okra recipes at home. I tasted some okra with tomato sauce at a Lebanese restaurant in town. For some time now, I've been keeping an eye on the okra recipes, a vegetable less known to us but very popular in the Oriental/Arabic cuisine. ![]()
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