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Category : Plants & Vegetables
Region : Southeast ~ Prairie
Rating : 1
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Cattail/Poke Salad Stir Fry
Contributor : Added by Administrator
Tribal Affiliation : Just a Bellagona (Navajo for honkie) from Nebraska
Orgin of Recipe : Offered by Dennis Burke ... who learned this from years of being single and putting stuff together
Type of Dish : Contemporary & Traditional
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Ingredients
- Some pine nuts if available
- Oil of choice
- Some wild onions to taste
- Crushed red chili to taste
- Handful of very young poke salad
- Salt/pepper to taste
- Handful of young cattails
- Sprig of wild dill weed
- Any available meat/fish chunked
- Marble sized piece of ginger root
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Directions
Pull cattails straight up and leaves roots in place, peel back to pure white flesh, cut up in about 1-2 inches sections
Wash poke salad stems and leaves well, blanche in boiling water then cold water then drain and set aside
Chop wild onion stems up about 1/4-1/2 in long
Shell and leave pine nuts whole
Tear up dill weed into small but recognizable pieces
Chunk up meat into bite size pies
Put about 3 tbs. Oil in hot skillet and add ginger and crushed red chili, then stir fry everything together (if you are using fish, leave until rest is nearly done so it doesn't fall apart)
Salt/pepper to taste, some soy sauce is nice if you like it
Serve with rice
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