Oven baked okra recipe (Bamies ladera)

Instructions

• Wash okra thoroughly and then dry each piece (using a clean towel).
• Clean okra – peeling the tips while maintaining the cone-like shape.
• Add 1 cup olive oil to the hot pan and allow the oil to heat up before adding garlic and onions.
• Thoroughly stir garlic and onions adding ½ cup red wine to the mixture and continuing to stir the mixture.
• Add tomato and tomato paste mixture, stirring through thoroughly and adding salt and pepper (to taste).
• Turning heat off and putting sauce mixture aside.
• In a separate pot or pan add 1 cup canola oil and toss through okra (just enough to soften and brown).
• Remove okra placing on a sieve, draining any excess oil and adding slightly cooked through okra into a baking dish.
• Continue this process for the remaining okra, doing the same for the potatoes also.
• Spread okra and potatoes evenly adding tomato base sauce and mixing through both the okra and potatoes.
• Add finely chopped parsley and mild red pepper, spreading evenly and covering baking dish with baking paper and aluminium foil.
• Bake covered at 180C for 30 minutes.
• Gently mix through ingredients and bake further uncovered for a further 15 minutes. If required add a half cup of lukewarm water to base (check base of the baking dish for liquid).