Sherby's Cornmeal Fried Okra
photo by Ambervim
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1 lb fresh okra, sliced (it needs to be fresh for best results)
- 2 cups cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon seasoning salt
directions
- Mix your cornmeal and salt well in a gallon sized Ziploc bag.
- Add okra, about 1 1/2 cups at a time.
- Close bag and shake to cover okra completely with cornmeal mixture.
- Fry in a cast iron skillet in vegetable or corn oil (I like corn oil best) until okra floats and turns a light brown.
- Watch this carefully as once it begins to brown, it does so very quickly.
- Repeat process until all okra is fried.
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Reviews
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Fantastic....just like Moms! The gallon bag makes this so easy and much less messy. I used plain salt but can't wait to try with your seasoning salt recipe. I sliced the okra very thin and fried in canola oil. Thanks for posting such a great and simple recipe and thanks for tagging me in the cameraless chef game! smilynn:)
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Yes Indeed! This is the way you fry okra. This was the only way my grandmother made okra (I don't think she had seasoned salt but she just used plain salt) and I din't know you could use okra any other way till my teen years. I know that we rarely had leftovers and if there were I always claimed them. I can no longer get fresh okra (I now live in Canada)so I wonder if you could fry the frozen kind?
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sherrybeth
Princeton, Louisiana