Tropical Foodies

Introducing tropical food and tropical recipes to the world!

Navigation
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Why Tropical Foodies?
  • Tropical countries? Where?
  • Metric conversions

Okra soup, the original West-African gumbo

January 20, 2013 by Tropical Foodies

 sauce gombo_okra soup
Name: Sauce Gombo/Okra soup
Eaten in: West Africa
Foodie: Linda

In a stew, soup or sauce, okra is one of those “love-it-or-hate-it” vegetables. It has a deliciously runny texture and a melt-in-your-mouth quality that could either be incredibly appealing or… not. … 

Read More »

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gumbo, Main dish, okra, Okra, Tomato

What about Okra?

August 27, 2010 by Tropical Foodies

OKRA
Okra is a vegetable that is extremely popular in African cookery. It is often added into soups and needs no special preparations besides washing, topping, tailing and cutting up. Mostly grown small scale in compound gardens.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gombo, Okra, okra

Celebrate tropical food and ingredients (often gluten-free) and enjoy some of the best culinary experiences of your life. Read More…

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Polls

What's your favorite plantain recipe?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Why tropical foodies?

Read More…

Popular posts

Copyright © 2025 · by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress

Posting....