Stacked Okra with Meat Recipe by Ameera Aboulseoud

You may have heard about the stacked okra before whether in the royal cooking books or in the old Egyptian family recipes. Today the famous social media food blogger Engineer Ameer explains to us how to prepare it.

Aboulseoud told “See” that the stacked okra was a constant lunch food in her father’s house in Alexandria and she still uses he Mom’s and Aunt’s recipe to make it for her family in America.

Aboulseoud said that this recipe can be made with frozen okras. However, the okras have to be large in size.

The recipe:

− Grease a small pot with 1 tablespoon of ghee before placing 1 large sliced tomato and 1 large sliced onion at the bottom. Stack 450 gm of frozen okra horizontally around the circumference of the pot. Stack only 3 rows maximum and leave the middle of the pot empty before adding salt and pepper.

− In another pot, heat 1 tablespoon of ghee and add ½ kg of cubed meat. Leave without stirring for about 4 minutes before stirring. When it turns golden brown add one cut onion, 1 teaspoon of minced garlic, some chili powder, salt, pepper and seven spices before stirring everything together.

− After 5 minutes add ½ a cup of tomato sauce and 1 teaspoon of sugar before stirring everything together and covering the meat with boiled water. Leave on the heat till the meat is cooked through.

− Transfer the meat to the middle of the okra pot before adding the sauce over //. Once boiled, decrease the heat to low and let it cook for another ½ an hour.

− Drain the sauce before flipping the pot into the serving plate (like you would do with the stuffed grape leaves).

− Add some of the sauce on top of the serving plate and put the rest in a saucer. Enjoy!!

Contributed by Sara Goda.