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Steweo Okra

A stew of okra, onion, tomatoes, and pork or lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Steweo Okra

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the okra in cold water and cut it into thin slices.

Cook

  1. In a frying pan, fry the pork slices or lard.

  2. Add the chopped onion and flour to the pan and cook until the onion is soft.

  3. Stir in the scalded and peeled tomatoes.

  4. Cook until all ingredients are tender.

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.

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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).

  2. Okra + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together715 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Okra + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Okra
Thickens the stew as it cooks and gives it a characteristic silky body.
Onion
Softens and adds savory sweetness that forms the base of the stew.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid and helps the stew hold together.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that help build the stew's sauce.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (okra, onion, flour, pork):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against okra, onion, flour, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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