This. is. so. yummy! It’s spicy and smoky and goes well with Italian and Southern cuisines.
Ingredients:
- 1 slice of bacon
- 1 yellow onion
- about 1 lb okra
- about 1 lb fresh tomatoes
- hot cock sauce
To cook:
- Finely dice the bacon and toss in a pot over medium heat. While it’s frying up nice and crispy, dice your onion and toss in. Cook until beginning to brown.
- Chop the okra into 1/2″ wide pieces, blanch in boiling water until bright green: about three minutes. Allow to drain over a sink until it’s stopped dripping slimy stuff, then rinse. (Some say it’s blasphemy to blanch okra, but who wants to eat all that mucilage?)
- While the okra is draining, dice your tomatoes and throw ‘em in the pot. Add a heft squeeze of the hot cock sauce, and simmer until reduced quite a bit.
- Add the okra and cook until it’s a dull green, about five minutes.
- Salt and nom.
We found that good quality canned tomatoes are better than watery fresh ones, and you have to look for high quality bacon to have this turn out well.