Fried Okra
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Recipe type: Vegetable Side dish
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Serves: 4-6
 
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds fresh okra, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup corn meal
  • ½ cup all purpose flour
  • ½-1 teaspoon kosher salt (adjust to taste)
  • ½-1 teaspoon pepper (adjust to taste)
  • cooking oil (I use canola)
Instructions
  1. In a bowl, combine corn meal, flour, salt and pepper.
  2. Toss thinly sliced okra in corn meal mixture, until coated.
  3. Add oil to coat entire bottom of skillet and heat on medium-high.
  4. When pan is hot, add okra in (sift through hands over bowl to avoid excess corn meal mixture).
  5. Stir and turn occasionally until dark golden brown and crisp.
Recipe by southerngirlsecrets.com at https://southerngirlsecrets.com/2012/07/24/a-summer-sunday-must/