Easy Picnic Food
3 min readWhat is poke bowl?
Poke bowl is a dish made by mixing uncooked seafood and other ingredients and frying it in a non-stick frying pan or in a cast iron skillet. Pika, also known as puffin, is the particular type of fish that is fried and served as an appetizer. In most cases, this dish is served during special occasions such as St. Patrick’s day, the month of January, or Hawaii’s fourth anniversary. These events are considered as celebrate-outs.
What makes the rice poke bowl special is that unlike the customary American ahi bowl, the ingredients of poke contain both Chinese and native Hawaiian cultures. Pika is often cooked with vegetables like bamboo shoots and seaweed, although sometimes meat or shrimp may be used. Traditional forms are heʼ and ahi. Heʼ is the form of cooking seafood that contains shrimp, lobster, or scallops, while this is the form of cooking fish that includes eel, swordfish, or shark.
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Ingredient
The main ingredient in poke bowl is raw marinated fish. Marinated fish is cooked in a special kind of mixture consisting of soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sesame oil before being marinated for about two hours. After the marination is done, the fish is allowed to drain off the liquid. It is then placed on top of a rice paper flat on top of the raw-marinated fish. This allows the marinated fish to be sealed inside the rice paper, making it more fresh and crisp.
This is then prepared by adding four to six pieces of brown rice, four to six pieces of ajuga, four to six pieces of aura, and four to six pieces of salmon. As for garnishing, you can add kamaboko (grilled mushrooms) or shiso (red chili peppers) on top. If you want a different color than you would normally get with a poke bowl recipe, then just look for masago (red or black soil mold). I personally love the combo of avocado and brown rice: it makes me feel lighter already.
A poke bowl recipe that utilizes this type of sushi also usually uses pickled ginger and wasabi. These are both excellent ingredients to pair with this kind of dish. A lot of bowl recipes already come with wasabi. I also personally love to add ginger and wasabi, but you can always find these items in any Asian grocery store. Also, you can buy an assortment of sushi ingredients so that you don’t have to always buy only one particular item.
Another great thing about poke bowls is the variety of ingredients that you can use for them. For example, you can use cucumber, salmon (in my case, perch), carrots, radishes, daikon radish, and baby Bok choy. The only limitation is your imagination. If you know how to chop cabbage, then you can use cucumber and thinly slice radishes or carrots.
In fact, I even had one recipe online that called for a half of sweet and half of sour pepper. This was actually very good! The sweet part contained cucumbers and a sliced white onion while the “Sour” contained jar gourd, lime juice, and cornstarch. It was a very tasty poke bowl recipe. However, if you don’t like vegetables, then it’s not your problem since there are also many different non-vegetarian ingredients you can use.
Alaska poke bowl
There are many different easy recipe poke bowl recipes out there, but I think the Baked Alaska poke bowl with the cheddar cheese and salmon was probably the best of them all. You can make this recipe with just about any type of seafood and any kind of vegetable as well. However, it’s always nice to find a recipe that includes vegetables as well so that everyone can eat. This will make your party a lot more fun, not to mention healthier.