Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
To assemble
3
Add the meat and fry 5 minutes.
⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
4
Add the garlic, salt and black pepper and stir.
5
Add the tomato paste and water and bring to a boil.
Stove
6
Turn down the heat, cover and simmer 35 minutes.
⚙ SimmeringStoveLid
💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
7
Add the okra and tomatoes and cook another 20 minutes.
Stove
8
Serve the stew with rice.
416calories
31 gprotein
23 gcarbs
23 gfat
● protein 30%● carbs 22%● fat 49%
Per serving (507 g), of 4 servings
For the Fried onion · To assemble ·
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⚖ About the ingredients
Onion: measured in pieces: one ≈ 117 g · 40 kcal per 100 g · More about Onion →
Oil: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 14 g · 886 kcal per 100 g · More about Oil →
Stove· 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
