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Okras Sautes a LA Creole

A sauté of okra with onions, peppers, tomatoes, Spanish sauce, and herbs, cooked slowly and served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Okras Sautes a LA Creole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the okra as for boiled okra.

  2. In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

Cook

  1. Add the minced onion and green pepper; cook for 6 minutes until golden.

  2. Stir in the tomatoes, Spanish sauce, salt, pepper, and garlic.

  3. Add the okra, cover, and cook slowly for 15 minutes.

Serve

  1. Transfer to a hot deep dish, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Okra + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Okra
Forms the main body of the dish and thickens slightly as it cooks.
Butter
Carries the flavour of the onion and pepper and helps them brown.
Onion
Builds a sweet, savoury base as it turns golden.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that combine into a sauce around the okra.
Spanish sauce
Adds tomato-based depth and body to the sauce.

The step that matters

Cooking the okra slowly, covered. Covered, slow cooking traps steam so the okra softens evenly in the tomato mixture. Higher heat or uncovered cooking can scorch the sugars in the sauce and leave the okra unevenly cooked.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (okra, butter, onion, pepper, tomato, sauce, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against okra, butter, onion, pepper, tomato, sauce, garlic. 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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