Polk Salad Poke Salad
How to make poke sallet poke salad start two pots of water on the stove covered one the size to fit the poke that you have harvested one at least 3.
Polk salad poke salad. Special to the daily home ever since i first heard elvis covering tony joe white s 1968 penned song called polk salad annie i ve harbored a subdued but persistently growing desire to someday. Directions whisk together soy sauce sesame oil and sesame seeds in a large bowl and season with salt. Bring to a rapid boil starting with cold water for a second boil for 20 minutes. Chop the poke salad greens into about 1 inch sections and then cook poke salad twice as instructed below.
Again drain and rinse with cold tepid water. Let sit 10 minutes. Pick and wash poke salad bring to a rapid boil for 20 minutes. When used in chinese medicine it is called chuíxù shānglù 垂序商陸.
Boil a second time for half an hour. If you still see any color in the water you may want to boil a third time as some people are extra careful with poke. In the song annie knows how to cook the plant which can be fatal if not properly prepared. People who are looking for food to get by are more likely to eat poke sallet than someone who had means to eat other things though mostly obscure to the mainstream poke sallet which is.
Coarsely chop poke shoots when water has come to a boil in the small pot and is close to or is boiling in the big pot ad d poke to small. Add tuna green onions onion jalapeño and seaweed and toss to combine. Polk salad refers to cooked pokeweed which is basically cooked greens. Boil your poke salad greens for 5 minutes pour off the water.
Ingredients pokeweed leaves bacon fat enough to coat pan crushed bacon to taste salt pepper to taste.