The Lady and Sons Okra and Tomatoes

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The Lady and Sons Okra and Tomatoes The Lady and Sons Okra and Tomatoes

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Servings: 4 servings
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 35 min
Difficulty: Easy

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4   slices bacon, diced into small pieces
1   small onion, peeled and chopped
2   cloves garlic, minced
2   (15-ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon chicken base
1 tablespoon sugar
2 cup fresh okra, cut into 1-inch pieces (may use frozen, if fresh not available)
Fresh ground black pepper

Directions

Cook bacon slightly. Saute onion and garlic with bacon until tender. Add tomatoes, chicken base, sugar and pepper. Stir well and let simmer for about 20 minutes. Adjust seasoning if needed. Meanwhile wash okra and remove fuzz if using fresh and cut into pieces. Add the okra and simmer until okra is done, about 20 more minutes (less if using frozen okra.)

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's Home Cooking
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I love this recipe!!! Yum Yum

By DawnTittle40 on September 16, 2012

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Hi, Mrs. Paula I thought you had a okra, shrimp and sausage recipe on your site. I wanted to try it your way because I love the way you cook on food network channel. I love your show Mrs. Paula please keep it on the food net work channel always. Mrs. Paula please comment back to me if you have any sugguestions about what I'm trying to cook. Thanks!!!!!!!!

By Sharwanda on May 21, 2012

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If you add sausage to the Okra and tomato receipe, you will have a meal in one. It is so good!

By Samantha Miller on July 21, 2011

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Hey Ellen! No, you do not drain the cans of diced tomatoes before you add them. Happy Cooking! Our okra is plentiful right now! Paula's garden is exploding with it.

By Libbie Summers, Senior Food Editor for Paula Deen on July 04, 2011

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Made this recipe for my husband on Father's Day. The entire family loved it. I will always use this recipe. It was much better than my husbands method. Sharon

By Sharon on June 29, 2011

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I make this dish using zucchini--will now try it with okrs--LOVE okra and my family loves this with zuchinni

By jane brandt on June 26, 2011

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In "The Lady and Sons" "Okra and Tomatoes" recipe, are you supposed to drain the tomatoes before adding them? Thanks!

By Ellen on June 14, 2011

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Hi Mindy, Here is a product you can try: http://www.amazon.com/Mccormick-Real-Chicken-Base-16/dp/B003JON4ZC

By Jonathan Able on March 31, 2011

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when it ask for "chicken base"....is this the same as chicken broth or stock??? or is this way off base?

By Mindy Short on March 17, 2011

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By amandajoyner on November 01, 2010

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This is a fabulous recipe, we also make it using stewed tomatoes and then V-8 for a soup, we love it!! Michele Barnes Franklin TN

By Anonymous on October 06, 2010

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It is the best okra and tomatoes I ever ate....even better than my Mothers...excellent...

By Anonymous on October 05, 2010

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This is the best recipe that I have found for okra and tomatoes.As Paula would say,"I just love,love love,it." Good southern recipe.Highly recommend.

By Anonymous on October 05, 2010

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My family loved the dish. The sugar sweentend the sauce to make it just right will do again.

By Anonymous on June 25, 2010

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I had been cooking this for the past 35, or so, years for my Daddy. He past away a year ago today...and I found this recipe. Wonderful recipe. This is the first time that I've actually seen a recipe in print for this. We use to make a meal out of it by adding leftover ham, cubed. I made this in memory of my Daddy, Luther Harold Askew 1923-2009. This was made for you Daddy...I love and miss you so much. Brenda Askew Fortenberry

By Anonymous on April 08, 2010

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