Okra Is a Useful Summer Vegetable 

 

Okra is a favorite summer vegetable. Okra can be cultivated easily in home gardens, its home crop can meet the needs of your kitchen throughout the season and it can also be dried and preserved. Hot weather is the best time for okra cultivation. It seed germinates and grows rapidly in the temperature of 25 to 30 degrees Celsius. In the plains of the Punjab two crops of okra are cultivated in a year. The first crop is planted from February to the end of March, this crops is ready till May- June and it is accompanied by vegetables.

While preparing the land for okra, cow dung manure is used. When sowing , super phosphate is required. In cold weather more seeds are added. In hot weather more crops are produced in less time. 

After sowing, the okra plant is lightly irrigated every week for a month. When the roots of the plants become long and deep, more water is given, but the interval is extended. The okra plants starts bearing fruit after fifty days, every second or third day the okra must should be picked otherwise it become hard and okra seed ripens. Nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers increase disease resistance of okra crop, which leads to better yield and yield of okra. 

While cooking okra curry, it should not be fried in ghee or fried for a long time, keeping it for a long time will destroy the vitamins and other useful ingredients included in it. In addition to curry, okra is also used as a medicine . If there is inflammation in the urinary tract after the bladder and burning in the urine, the detection of okra gives immediate relief. If it is mixed with sugar and when and given to the patient, it relieves these aliments.  

Mom, what has been cooked, put the food quickly, i am very hungry. Ayman started noise as soon as she entered the house . Tahira put food on the table before changing his clothes. Ayman washed her hands and sat down to eat after she gave okra curry and it was extinguished at once. Whar happened, daughter ? Tahira asked said angrily. But daughter i have put meat in the okra so that you can eat ir too, check it and see how it tastes, Thhira said in a loving tone. Ayman took a bit of curry from his heart and put a mouthful of disgust into his mouth, before the mouthful took away all his displeasure and resentment. Thhira, who was enjoying the changing expressions on his face, said why Ayman how did okra meat curry work ? She smiled and said, Mom this is really delicious. When mother informed her about the properties of okra, Ayman was surprised that okra has so many benefits.

Benefits Of Okra 

This vegetable looks very light in term of texture and weight, perhaps that,s why it is called ladyfinger in English and Urdu and Hindi its called okra. Okra contains a significant amount of pectin due to the fact that drinking its boiling water relieves the panic of heat fever. Its soup should be consumed to relieve dry cough, sore throat and chest dryness, it also relieves phlegm. 

In the case of inflammation of the kidney or bladder, drinking two or three drops of its soup a day will help.Okra is also beneficial in male and female diseases. For this purpose soft and small okra without seeds is useful. sometimes there is burning sensation in urine due to heat or other diseases. In such cases, fresh or dry okra soup is very useful.Okra is very beneficial for treating kidney stones and bladder diseases. Infertility women get rid of their infertility with okra soup, and those who have complaints of asthma, keep the center of okra in the shade and dry it to make a break couch and mix it with honey and give it to patient if they have asthma.The sustenance will also be greatly benefited from it. By gargling with vinegar and vinegar in okra soup, toothache is relieved. Okra has high antiseptic properties due to its pectin and starch, 

 

Okra Soup   

Boil one and a half half of okra in the same amount of water for three to five minutes, filter this water and mix it with sugar or misri and give it to patients suffering from toothache, dry cough and sore throat, then it will benefit them a lot.

Okra and Meat 

Okra is also called as a house crops which means you can grow it in your home garden as well, it needs hot humid weather and it grows and grows fast even in 25 to 30 degrees Celsius.In the plains of the Punjab okra is grown twice a year, the first crops is ready from February to March and the second is from May to June, and second crops grown in June the okra is ready harvested by November. Dung manure is used while preparing the land and super phosphate is required while sowing the seeds. Less beech is applied in summer crops but more seeds is applied for winter crop. After sowing seeds id lightly irrigated for four weeks. As the roots of the plants grow longer and deeper, the amount and interval of watering should be increased. Okra should be plucked from the plant every second third day, otherwise the okra become hard. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers increase the disease resistance of the crop. Okra is abundant in our country and its yield is high .

Ingredients Of Okra 

Okra is a summer vegetable. According to Greek medicine , it is the best vegetable in terms of mood. It contains vitamins A,B,C mineral salts, phosphorus, lime, iodine and iron. While cooking okra, it should not be fried in ghee for a long time, as over- frying loses the vitamins and proteins present in it to a large extent. If you want to fry for a longer time to make the taste more palatable, heating the ghee at low heat is less harmful than frying it in okra at high heat.

Avoiding Okra

Excess consumption of okra also affects health, so it should be avoided to some extent. For some patients okra should be consumed sparingly , such as those who suffer from constipation or abdominal pain, should reduce the consumption of okra it is harmful.

Delicious Okra Curry

                                Okra half     :  kg     

                                Onion half   :  one

       Rye and white cumin seeds  :  each spoon

                               Kalonji          :  half tsp

                               Turmeric       :   half spoon

                       Crushed garlic      :   one spoon

                        Salt, pepper, oil   :   as your taste 

 

Cut the chopped dry okra and take sesame seeds in a frying pan, heat oil and add it to the kalonji. Add all the ground spices and add the okra and onions and cook on low. Finally, add green chilies and green coriander and take it off. The dry taste of the curry is ready. Take care that there is no water left in the okra.

 

Okra Nutrition

 While searing isn't the most effective way to plan vegetable for welling . You can in any case receive the rewards of okra even in broiled structure. Okra is wealthy in fiber and protein, and low in calories. Okra vegetable frequently need huge measures of protein, making okra one of kind in this perspective. furthermore its packed with nutrients ( counting L - scorbutic acid ) and cancer prevention agents. 

How to Okra store

Okra  to cases can wound fairly effectively, so you need to store them with care. New okra is best put away in the vegetable cabinet of the cooler, either enclosed by a paper towel or in free paper

 pack. Hold back to wash cooking it until you are prepared . Okra will store as long as four days in the refrigerator. To protect okra long haul you can either can in to freeze it. To freeze okra start by whitening the units in bubbling water and afterward stunning them in an ice shower. You then may either slice the units before freezing or freezer the entire cases by putting them on a material lined baking sheet in the cooler. When the okra is frozen, move it to a cooler pack and save as long as a year.