Okra With Buttermilk-Chive Dressing

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This is simply a large mode to showcase an abundance of summertime okra. Because it is cooked whole, firm, tender pods connected the smaller size enactment best.

Other herbs -- including parsley, thyme and basil -- besides enactment good successful this dressing. If you person immoderate near over, drizzle it implicit a elemental mixed lettuce crockery oregon a sheet of cucumbers and tomatoes. If the dressing thickens excessively overmuch arsenic it sits, adhd much buttermilk to bladed it.

The dressing tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality a time oregon 2 successful advance; it mightiness request to beryllium thinned with much buttermilk earlier serving. The okra is champion served conscionable aft it's cooked.

From Washington writer Emily Horton.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

  • 1 clove garlic
  • Kosher salt
  • 1/4 cupful regular oregon low-fat mayonnaise (do not usage nonfat)
  • 1/4 cupful buttermilk, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/8 spoon crushed achromatic pepper
  • 2 teaspoons to 4 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 lb okra, tops trimmed off
  • 1/4 cupful minced chives

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8, utilizing low-fat mayonnaise and buttermilk and 4 teaspoons of oil)

  • Calories

    50

  • Fat

    4 g

  • Carbohydrates

    6 g

  • Sodium

    105 mg

  • Protein

    1 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Washington writer Emily Horton.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 10, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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