Pork Salad Plant
4 cups chopped freshly picked poke salad greens shoots picked at 6 inches high1 cup chopped onion cup diced ginger root 4 cloves garlic 2 3 eggs 1 cup of cooked rice i chose brown soy sauce or spicy stir fry sauce bell pepper garnish salt pepper to taste cooking oil to taste.
Pork salad plant. Prepared correctly polk salad is a healthful delicious side dish. The stem is usually red late in the season. Drain and rinse with cold tepid water. All parts of the plant are poisonous to cattle horses swine and humans if eaten raw.
The roots being the most poisonous. The pokeweed plant contains several toxins as well as. Swine are able to pull up the roots even though they grow deep and eat that part of the plant but it usually kills them. The plant must be a few years old before the root grows large enough to support this size.
Poke sallet a dish made with the cooked leaves of the poisonous pokeweed plant is beloved by many in the american south despite its latent toxicity. Pick and wash poke salad bring to a rapid boil for 20 minutes. Perennial herbaceous plant which can reach a height of 3m 10 feet but is usually 12m 4 feet to 2m 6 feet. The young greens should be boiled and drained three times to purge the toxins before they are fried in hot oil or bacon fat with eggs.
Bring to a rapid boil starting with cold water for a second boil for 20 minutes. 6 to 8 slices bacon. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Polk should be picked early in the season.
Polk salad is a toxic plant containing phytolaccatoxin and phytolaccigenin. Ingredients pokeweed leaves bacon fat enough to coat pan crushed bacon to taste salt pepper to taste. This plant grows from 1 ft 10 ft. When water has come to a boil in the small pot and is close to or is boiling in the big pot ad d.
Do not choose leaves over 6 inches long. Again drain and rinse with cold tepid water. Polk salet or polk salad is a dark leafy green similar to but stronger tasting than spinach but with a flavor of its own. 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 times this size.
Polk salad is however eaten in the southeren united states.