Okra Dolmas

OKRA DOLMAS (Bamya Dolması)

Heads will be chopped off of one kilo of small but fat okras and innards are removed with a scraper. Two finely chopped onions and two mashed tomatoes are fried in a pan in three tablespoonfuls of fat, Four cups of water, two cups of cleaned rice and sufficient salt and spices are added to the pan. The mixture will be stuffed into okras when it loses all its juice. The okras will be placed into a terracotta saucepan with chopped heads placed on okras backward and cooked with meat stock added.