One of my favorite comfort foods from my childhood is
deep fried okra.
Not exact matches
DH didn't like this — back to the traditional way mixing
okra with egg, coat with cornmeal / flour / salt and
deep fry.
Typical dishes are vatapá (palm oil, coconut, shrimp, and garlic), moqueca (seafood cooked in palm oil), caruru (seafood, in palm oil with
okra), acarajé (
deep fried bean cakes stuffed with vatapá), and abara (like acarajé but cooked instead of
deep fried).
Some of the recipes include: Mama's
Fried Chicken (shown on cover below), Southern
Fried Chicken and Waffles, Corned Beef Hash with Brown Gravy, Paleo Pecan Waffles, Lump Crab Hushpuppies, Lemon Pepper
Fried Okra, Rodeo Funnel Cakes, Chicken
Fried Steak, Soulful Collard Greens, and
Deep South
Fried Pickles.
Most of us here happen to adore
Okra (especially when
deep fried — NOT healthy for young children however).
Typical dishes include vatapá (creamy paste of bread, shrimp, coconut milk, palm oil and nuts), caruru (a stew of
okra, onion, shrimp, nuts and palm oil), acarajé (a
deep -
fried ball of white beans) and moqueca (slow - cooked stew of seafood, onions, tomatoes, cilantro and chili pepper).