(1) okra tea
Okra's fruit pods begin to appear aging can be directly sliced and processed, and then dried, as a tea.
Ingredients: dried okra slices, appropriate amount of honey, boiling water.
Practice:
1. Take 5~7 slices of dried okra and put them in the bottom of a cup, use boiling water to brew half a cup, soak for 2~3 minutes and then drain the water, regarded as cleaning okra slices.
2. Then fill the cup with boiling water, cover the cup, soak for 15 minutes, this time you can drink, you can also wait for the tea temperature to drop slightly after adding the right amount of honey and then drink, sweet flavor, very, delicious.
(2) okra soup
Okra in the material is not as good as the harvest will be dry in the book, this dry pods contain a lot of seeds, seeds can be used to extract oil, while the outer pods is a very good soup seasoning, in the cooking of fish soup, chicken soup, pig's foot soup and other meat soups can be put in the pods to cook with the seasoning to increase the freshness and winter melon soup, kelp soup, such as vegetarian soups, you can add a small amount, the aroma is more intense.
(3) okra seed oil
Okra seeds contain a large number of fatty acids, most of which belong to the unsaturated fatty acids, the old ripe okra can be used to extract oil processing, its oil yield is about 20%, the finished product is called okra seed oil, is currently on the market is more expensive a kind of health care and health care oil, the price of about 200 yuan / kg. Its consumption and other vegetable oils, as well as other vegetable oils, can be used as cooking oil for stir-frying, can also be used as a seasoning for consumption, the aroma are very unique and strong.
3, the old okra high nutrition
Okra young pods contain a lot of viscous protein and arabinose, galactosan, rhamnogalactan, protein, calcium oxalate, etc., therefore, has a very high health care efficacy, and the old okra these substances are slowly consumed, and the content of crude fiber is more and more, the nutritional value of a serious decline, it is not recommended to directly consume, so as to avoid indigestion.