Cook okra for 2~3 minutes before it is cooked.

It is best to blanch okra before preparing the dish, as blanching removes the astringent flavor of okra and makes it more flavorful. Okra is relatively easy to cook vegetables, usually only need to cook to about 3 minutes if you cook with water. Okra can be served cold, stir-fried, deep-fried, stewed, in salads or soup dishes, etc. It is important to blanch okra before serving it cold or stir-fried. If you plan to use okra to make coleslaw, you can also put it in the refrigerator for a while after it is done to make it more refreshing to eat.

Okra has a vegetable king of the name, its tender pods meat tender, containing by pectin and polysaccharide composed of sticky substances, so that the okra has a special flavor, smooth texture; generally can be fried, soup, pickling, canning and so on. In addition to the young fruit edible, its leaves, buds, flowers are also edible.

Fresh okra preservation methods:

1, the okra fruit stalks trimmed neatly, put into a plastic bag or plastic preservation box, sealed, wrapped in newspaper, to prevent direct contact with the crushed ice in the freezer.

2. Just wrap the newspaper and place it in the bottom shelf of the freezer.

3. Trim the okra stalks and place them in boiling hot water for 0.5 to 1 minute, remembering to add the right amount of salt to the water before boiling.

4, blanched okra immediately out of the pot immersed in cold or ice water, completely cooled before fishing out okra water control.

5, control the water of okra into a plastic bag or plastic preservation box, sealed, into the freezer freezer can be frozen, if your home refrigerator with a quick-freeze function, the use of quick-freeze function is better.