The Okra or vegetable Eibisch (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a kind from the family of the It is more exact one from the high country of East Africa, from Ethiopia, coming vegetable plant.

Description

The bush reaches stature heights of up to 2.50 meters. It has toothed sheets and large yellow blooms. The fruits or Schoten become 10 to 20 centimeters long. The bowl is bright to dark green with a fine Flaum. In the cross section the six to octagonal Okraschoten white Samen.In south India is the Okras "lady finger ", in Greece "Bamias "is also called.

With the Unterfamilie Malvoideae the many and the stamp grew together to the so-called Androgynophor to a tube.

Use in the kitchen

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The Okra is one of the oldest vegetable plants. It is already cultivated, cultivated before at least 3000 years by the Egyptians on the banks of the Nile it however probably already for 4000 years. Today it is common nearly in the whole world as vegetable plant. Into the USA it arrived for example in connection with the slave trade.

The most important cultivation countries are India and Nigeria. As vegetables the calorie-poor and geschmacklich Schoten of the Okra reminding of beans are eaten. When cooking they deliver a slimy substance, which is suitable for thickening meals. In addition, the vegetable is used African and asiatic area, it is in the Southern States of the USA, which likes to Karibik and in Greece much particularly in the Arab. In addition, it e.g. used in a kreolischen pot, the Gumbo, can as normal vegetable be handed. The taste is neutrally, mild to harsh.

Seeds of the fruits mature can also roasted be eaten or as coffee replacement used.

Literature

Nadja Biedinger: The world of the tropical plants, DuMont travel publishing house, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5294-8

Related links

• Empiric report in the Okra cultivation (with pictures)

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