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Okra and Tomatoes

A preserved canned dish of okra and tomatoes cooked together and processed for shelf life.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Okra and tomato work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 327 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Okra and Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash, blanch, and cut the okra.

Cook

  1. Mix the prepared okra with an equal amount of peeled and cored tomatoes in a kettle.

  2. Turn on steam, bring to a boil, and cook for 15 minutes.

Can and process

  1. Place the mixture in cans, cap, tip, and process No. 2 cans for 15 minutes at 240°F (115°C) and No. 3 cans for 20 minutes at 240°F (115°C).

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Okra + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Okra
Releases mucilage when cooked, giving the finished dish a thick, soft texture.
Peeled and cored tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity, forming the sauce that surrounds the okra.

The step that matters

Processing time for each can size. Heat must penetrate the center of the can to destroy spoilage microbes. Larger cans need longer processing, so using the wrong time for the can size can leave the contents under-processed and unsafe to store.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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