Okra Stew (Greek)

Ingredients

• f quart okra (fresh)
• i teaspoon salt
• li cups tomato (canned)
• I small onion
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• i cup lamb (cut in small pieces)
• i cup water
• ^ lemon

Method

1. 1

   Fry meat in hot oil until nearly cooked, adding chopped onion.

2. 2

   Clean and dry okra, wash away salt, and add to meat with tomato, water, lemon, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Cover and cook slowly.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods of the foreign-born in relation to health (1922) by Bertha M. Wood, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Okra Stew (Greek) f quart okra (fresh) i teaspoon salt li cups tomato (canned) i teaspoon pepper I small onion 4 tablespoons olive oil } cup lamb (cut in i cup water small pieces) ^ lemon Put meat in hot oil and fry until nearly cooked, add- ing onion, chopped fine. Have whole okra cleaned, washed, sprinkled with salt, and dried in the sun for half an hour. Wash the salt away and add to the meat, to- gether with the tomato, water, lemon, salt, and pepper. Cover well and cook over a rather slow fire. In cleaning okra, do not cut the stem so that the seeds are exposed, but face or cut the stem off carefully, to avoid having a gummy substance in the cooked product. THE NEAR EAST 8 1 Bean Stew (Greek) ' } quart shelled beans i teaspoon salt ( fresh ) i teaspoon pepper 2 cups tomatoes (canned) 4 tablespns. olive oil I small onion i cup water I cup lamb (cut into small pieces)

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