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Salmon & Avocado Poke Bowl

January 20, 2014 24 Comments

When Dan and I first started dating, he told me that he didn’t really like Asian food. Rice was too bland, and anything more adventurous than Orange Chicken was too much. His idea of Chinese food was Panda Express and the over-sweet, candy-red BBQ ribs and fried egg rolls from some place called China Villa. Spicy food gave him indigestion, and sushi (of course) was a no go because he refused to eat raw fish.

Sigh. Sob.

This was, as you can imagine, devastating to me. Like, almost a deal breaker. I liked Dan (a lot), but I couldn’t bring someone who didn’t even like rice home to my parents, ya know?

But more importantly, Asian food is awesome and Dan needed to know that. So I took it upon myself to re-educate his taste buds. I dragged him along to Chinese New Years dinners at family friends’ houses (where he would be obligated to at least try everything to avoid offending the hosts), cajoled him into trying Szechuan food in Chinatown, bullied him into taking me out for Korean BBQ on my birthday, fed him bites of my teriyaki chicken at lunch, and convinced him that it was OK to eat California rolls because they didn’t have raw fish so they weren’t really sushi.

To Dan’s credit, despite some initial reluctance, he was willing to at least give everything a taste. And eventually, he found things that he liked to eat!

These days, Dan eats and enjoys all manner of Asian (and non-Asian) foods. He happily scarfed down donkey, turtle stew, and roasted baby pigeon when we took him to China a few years ago; he orders pho and pork belly bahn mi’s at the Vietnamese center up the street from our condo; and, his taste for spicy food has far outstripped mine. So, Project Dan = success!

But you know when I first realized Dan that liked Asian food? It was when I sat down next to him at lunch one day in college and saw that he had voluntarily ordered the Salmon & Avocado rolls from Shinkansen and was eating them with soy sauce and wasabi like a pro.

Sushi! With raw fish! Using chopsticks! Yessssssssssssss.

This Salmon &  Avocado Poke Bowl (not actually a bowl in the photos ‘cuz the bowl pictures were aggravating me) is inspired by and pays homage to Dan’s first salmon & avocado sushi roll experience. I’m also kinda sorta posting this Hawaiian recipe in the hopes that Dan’s cousin Katie will see it and be swayed to have her wedding in Hawaii next year.

I would kill to eat poke in Hawaiian. Fresh caught fish must surely taste better than the sushi-grade salmon I ordered from Amazon, right? Not that this fish didn’t taste good – cuz it did. Silky smooth/soft bites of salmon marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar and chopped onions + chunks of creamy avocado = absolute heaven.

This is technically supposed to be an appetizer but it was so good we just ate giant bowls of it for lunch over rice. What I wouldn’t give for a legit fish market around here so we could eat like this everyday…

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Salmon & Avocado Poke Bowl
Author: justputzing
Recipe type: Lunch/Dinner
Cuisine: Asian, Hawaiian
Prep time:  15 mins
Cook time:  5 mins
Total time:  20 mins
Yields: 4
 
Simple, healthy and amazingly delicious salmon & avocado poke
Ingredients
  • 1 lb sushi-grade salmon
  • 1 avocado, cubed
  • Cooked white rice, to serve
  • ½ red onion, finely diced
  • ½ cup green onions, chopped
  • ⅓ cup soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp white sugar
  • ⅛ cup sesame oil
  • ½ tsp ground ginger
  • Sesame seeds
Directions
  1. In a medium bowl, mix together red onion, green onion, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and ginger. Set aside.
  2. Remove bones and skin from your salmon, if any, and cut the fish into ¾″ chunks.
  3. Add fish and avocado to the bowl with the marinade. Toss to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
  4. Taste and adjust seasonings.
  5. Serve with extra diced green onions and sesame seeds on top of steamed white rice that has been cooled to room temperature.
  6. Enjoy!
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(Slightly adapted from Something Is Done)

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Filed Under: Dinner, Gluten-free, Healthy, Low Fat, Lunch, Seafood Tagged With: hawaiian, seafood

Comments

  1. Lokness @ The Missing Lokness says

    January 21, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    HAHAHA!!! I am so glad that Dan is finally enjoying Asian food now. 🙂 By the way, this poke bowl looks so good. I would love some now!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      January 21, 2014 at 7:48 pm

      😀

      Reply
  2. Rosemary says

    January 21, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    I normally can’t stand avocado, but if it’s in a California roll….well, I could eat it all day. I’m sure it’s the same thing with this dish! It looks so tasty!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      January 22, 2014 at 11:28 am

      Thank you! It really was like eating a bowl of messy sushi 🙂

      Reply
  3. Shawnda says

    January 29, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    I married a “Dan” 🙂 This looks lovely! There’s a local place here that sells sushi-grade fish to the public and I have it on my to-do list to go by and check it out.

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      January 29, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      So jealous! I would kill for a good fish market around me 🙁

      Reply
  4. Diary says

    September 16, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Not quite sure about the avocadoes, but the salmon looks yummy on top of the rice. Will be giving this recipe a try later in the weekend. ^_^

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      September 16, 2014 at 11:11 am

      Hope you like it!

      Reply
  5. christina says

    December 31, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    Must have with tuna or Ahi… Raw of course… Mmmm n the avocado…. … Ooh my mouth is drooling…

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      January 1, 2015 at 12:39 am

      Hehe, thanks! This would definitely be delish with tuna!

      Reply
  6. Guy Murata says

    December 27, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    Hi Tina, Thanks for sharing your poke/sushi recipe!
    I am born and raised here in Honolulu, Hawaii. I’m constantly searching the internet..for ono(delicious) poke recipes.
    I’d love to share my poke/sashimi recipes..but l make it..all by taste.
    I will use this recipe with ahi-tuna instead of salmon.
    Thanks again!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      December 28, 2015 at 4:36 pm

      Thanks for reading!

      Reply
  7. John says

    January 3, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    1/8 sesame oil I assume is = 1/8 tablespoon I assume ,,,

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      January 4, 2016 at 11:10 am

      Actually, it’s 1/8 cup of sesame oil, which equals 2 tbsp. Thanks for catching that typo!!!

      Reply
  8. Rich Guagliardo says

    August 19, 2016 at 10:39 am

    I made this Poke Bowl last night and it was absolutely wonderful. I used salad spring mix instead of the rice and 2 tsp Splenda instead of sugar to lower the carbs. Hat’s off to you for this wonderful recipe!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      August 19, 2016 at 10:57 am

      I’m so glad you liked the recipe! I’ll have to try poke over salad sometime (though I’m a rice fiend, so it’s hard to give it up…).

      Reply
  9. Patrick says

    September 13, 2016 at 3:36 am

    Just made this with fresh blue fin, came out great! Thanks for sharing your recipe!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      September 13, 2016 at 7:20 am

      Thanks for reading! So glad you liked the recipe – wish I could get my hands on some fresh blue fin!

      Reply

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