Okra Fried Bread

All right, I want to move on over now to a bread that is so, so good

Now, you've heard me talk about lace hoe cakes. My mama cooked them when I was growing up for lunch and dinner every day of her life

Well, today I'm going to do something a little different. A couple of girlfriends from my hometown of Albany, Georgia make okra fry bread

Now, when they were telling me about this, I said, y'all are talking about hoe cake cornbread with okra in it

And they said exactly. So that's what we're fixing to make. We're going to start with a cup of self-rising flour

And we're going to use one cup of plain cornmeal. And I'm going to add a little salt and a small diced onion

And here's the ingredient that makes this cornbread so unbelievably good. And that's sliced okra

and you want to slice it while it's frozen. Now we're going to want this batter very, very thin

so I'm going to put two and a half cups of water, and we're just going to mix this up

and it's really best if you let it sit for a few minutes because it'll thicken up a little

Isn't that pretty? All right, I'm going to give this a quick stir, and I'm going to let it sit here

on the counter and rest a few minutes. Now I'm gonna fry these in clarified butter

because I don wanna run the risk of that butter burning So let see what we got here This is the prettiest batter It almost looks like it has eggs in it

the way it's pulling, but it's not. It's from the okra. At this point, you could add a little bit more water

and thin it out, but I think this is gonna be pretty good. All right, and I'm just gonna move it around

just a little bit, just like that, and it's looking wonderful. I love fried okra, and this is like a bonus

Fried okra and hoe cake. All right, I'm gonna start flipping them

and you see the way I'm picking up my frying pan? I'm letting my grease drain to that side

so when I flip my hoe cake, I don't have to worry about them splattering up

and burning me. All right, let's check on our okra fried bread

When I have my cooking schools, I try to introduce all of my family

And the last school I did, my Aunt Peggy was there. And I was able to cook and introduce her to everybody

And we just had a wonderful, wonderful time. So I want to thank y'all for those of you that might be watching that came to the cooking school

And I hope that those of y'all that didn't enjoyed seeing the clips

All right. What a meal. Hey, Gertie. It's unbelievable, Gertie