Stewed Okra In Tomato Sauce With Feta

Stewed okra in tomato sauce with feta is a hearty vegetarian dish in Greece. It can be found on the mezze table or as a main dish. The richness of the aromatic tomato sauce blends perfectly with the robust okra making for a filling vegetable stew.

Okra in tomato sauce a taste of Greek summer sunshine in the cold of late winter here in the UK. Okra is sometimes called Ladies Fingers and is available in large supermarkets even up here in Ayrshire, Scotland!

I love cooking Mediterranean food at any time of year as it’s so healthy and tasty and just makes me think of sunshine.

Okra

The Marmite of the vegetable world, okra, you either love it or loathe it! I’ll come clean here and be honest with you. I used to hate okra, to me it was slightly slimy, tasteless and just not something I wanted to eat.

I’d had bad okra, cooked poorly and not as it should be. Move to Crete and you soon find out how these little veggies should taste – great. My old neighbour Poppy used to make some wonderful vegetarian dishes and this was one of them.

She would call out to me as I ambled past on my way back from the beach to my tiny apartment. After the usual pleasantries in my dreadful Greek she would present me with a plate of whatever she had made at lunchtime.

I learned a lot from sampling Poppy’s proper Greek cooking and appreciating properly cooked okra was one of them.

How to serve stewed okra

You can serve this okra in tomato sauce either as part of a sharing mezze starter with some other dishes or as a main course side dish for two people.

If you are really into okra you can just have this as your main dish and congratulate yourself on your full embracement of the super healthy Mediterranean diet.

For me it is a side dish when I’m serving up grilled pork chops. Forget serving up the usual carbs and serve this okra in tomato sauce instead. It is filling and delicious and you won’t miss your usual carb side at all.

Bamies latheres me domatia (stewed okra in tomato sauce)

While this simple Greek dish may not be on the menu at the more touristy tavernas it is a staple of real Greek cuisine and one that is well worth trying.

Kali Orexi!

Fancy having a go at some more Greek dishes? Then check these out;

Greek soutzoukakia baked meatballs in tomato sauce

Pastitsio (Greek lasagne)

Greek roast chicken with coffee

Greek warm green beans salata

Fish a la Spetsea

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