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Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews

• A soup base

• Abelmoschus esculentus

• Beaked pods

• Bourbon Street stew vegetable

• Bourbon Street vegetable

• Bourbon Street veggie

• Brunswick stew ingredient

• Cacao cousin

• Cajun Bloody Mary garnish

• Cajun chef's staple

• Cajun cook's vegetable

• Cajun cookery ingredient

• Cajun cooking ingredient

• Cajun cooking pod

• Cajun cuisine staple

• Cajun cuisine vegetable

• Cajun mainstay

• Cajun pod

• Cajun soup ingredient

• Cajun staple

• Cajun stew veggie

• Cajun thickener

• Cajun vegetable

• Cajun veggie

• Callaloo component

• Callaloo ingredient

• Caribbean cuisine staple

• Church's Chicken side dish

• Cook's pod

• Cousin of hibiscus

• Creole cookery item

• Creole cookery pod

• Creole cookery staple

• Creole cooking pod

• Creole cooking staple

• Creole cooking vegetable

• Creole cuisine staple

• Creole cuisine veggie

• Creole pod

• Creole soup veggie

• Creole staple

• Creole stew vegetable

• Creole stew veggie

• Creole vegetable

• Creole veggie

• Delicious mallow

• Edible beaked pods

• Edible pod

• Fighting ___ (unofficial mascot of Mississippi's Delta State)

• Food that may be pickled

• Food whose name comes from a language of West Africa

• Fried Cajun side

• Fried Cajun veggie

• Fried side

• Fruit veggie

• Gooey gumbo ingredient

• Gooey vegetable

• Gooey veggie

• Green pod

• Greengrocer's pods

• Gumbo

• Gumbo base

• Gumbo bean

• Gumbo component

• Gumbo essential

• Gumbo goodie

• Gumbo green

• Gumbo ingredient

• Gumbo item

• Gumbo must

• Gumbo necessity

• Gumbo need

• Gumbo plant

• Gumbo pod

• Gumbo requirement

• Gumbo soup ingredient

• Gumbo staple

• Gumbo stuff

• Gumbo thickener

• Gumbo tidbit

• Gumbo vegetable

• Gumbo veggie

• Gumbo's gotta have it

• Gummy pod used in soup

• Herb used in soup

• Hibiscus cousin

• Ingredient in the Middle Eastern stew bamia

• Ingredient in the Nigerian dish draw soup

• It puts the gum in gumbo

• It's also known as lady's-finger

• It's slippery when cooked

• It's sometimes deep-fried in the South

• It's used in gumbo

• Kind of stew

• Lady's finger

• Louisiana cooking pod

• Louisiana stew ingredient

• Louisiana vegetable

• Louisiana veggie

• Mallow family plant

• Mallow family shrub

• Mallow shrub

• Member of the mallow family

• New Orleans staple

• New Orleans veggie

• Pepper pot pods

• Pickled pod

• Plant also called lady's-finger

• Plant called lady's-finger in England

• Plant used by Prudhomme

• Plant with pods

• Pod for gumbo

• Pod holder

• Pod in a gumbo

• Pod in many cajun dishes

• Pod known in parts of West Africa as kingombo

• Pod plant

• Pod that's sometimes pickled

• Pod used in Creole cooking

• Pod used in gumbo

• Pod vegetable

• Pod veggie

• Podded plant

• Podded plant for Paul Prudhomme

• Podded plant for Prudhomme

• Podded vegetable

• Pods for stews

• Pods often pickled

• Pods used in soups

• Pods used in Southern cooking

• Pods used in stew

• Popular fried vegetable of the South

• Popular Gulf Coast veggie

• Prudhomme veggie

• Relative of hibiscus

• Shrub of the mallow family

• Shrub valued for its pods

• Side dish that might accompany chicken-fried steak

• Side often fried

• Side with chicken-fried steak

• Side with fried catfish, maybe

• Side with fried catfish, perhaps

• Slimy pod

• Slimy veggie

• Some pods

• Something seen eaten in groups

• Soul food veggie

• Soul-food staple

• Soup green

• Soup ingredient

• Soup ingredient, perhaps

• Soup pod

• Soup thickener

• Soup vegetable

• Soup veggie

• South Carolina side

• South side?

• Southern dish

• Southern food plant

• Southern fried veggie

• Southern side

• Southern side dish

• Southern soup ingredient

• Southern staple

• Southern stew ingredient

• Southern vegetable

• Staple of Cajun cuisine

• Staple of Southern cuisine

• Stew ingredent

• Stew ingredient, perhaps

• Stew pod

• Stew thickener

• Stew vegetable

• Stew veggie

• Sticky green pods

• Sticky pod

• Stuff in stews

• Tapered pods

• Tempura veggie

• Vegetable

• Vegetable and egg on capsized boat (4)

• Vegetable eaten in the South

• Vegetable found in many Southern recipes

• Vegetable fried in the South

• Vegetable in a pod

• Vegetable in Cajun cooking

• Vegetable in Cajun cuisine

• Vegetable often served fried

• Vegetable pod

• Vegetable sometimes grown as a flower

• Vegetable that's often pickled

• Vegetable used in creole cooking

• Veggie

• Veggie called kingombo in most Bantu languages

• Veggie called bhindi in India

• Veggie in Southern delicacies

• Veggie used in callaloo

• Veggie used in gumbo

• Vicksburg vegetable

• West Indian shrub

• Sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus

• Long mucilaginous green pods

• May be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews