Poke Bar Recipes

The technique for making poke is so basic that even the most inexperienced cooks can get something close to what they'd get in a restaurant. But the one catch is you have to use only the freshest possible tuna, even if that means frozen.

Provided by Chef John

Categories     Seafood     Fish     Tuna

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 11

Nutrition Facts : Calories 231.1 calories, Carbohydrate 3.1 g, Cholesterol 51.1 mg, Fat 11.6 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 28.3 g, SaturatedFat 1.8 g, Sodium 1196.7 mg, Sugar 0.7 g

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Poke, once found only in Hawaii, has grown in popularity throughout the continental U.S. and worldwide in recent years. What is this trending dish, you might ask? Although eaten by ancient Hawaiians using freshly caught fish massaged with sea salt, seaweed and crushed kukui nuts, it didn't receive its official name of poke (pronounced poh-kay, rhymes with okay), which means "to cut into pieces," until around the 1960s. As people flooded to Hawaii from Asia, they added their own cultures' ingredients like soy sauce, green onions, sesame oil and furikake, that have become staples of the dish today. There is a range of variations to the dish that includes ingredients like octopus (he'e in Hawaiian and tako in Japanese), crab, tofu, avocado, jalapenos, chile flakes, garlic, ginger and much, much more. You can serve poke as a bowl, nachos, musubi (another Hawaiian favorite), tacos, tostadas, and the list goes on. Today, we are presenting a traditional style poke bowl, unequivocally the most popular style in Hawaii.

Provided by Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 55m

Yield 4 to 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

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