Hawaiian Nairagi Poke Recipe

Audra Lowe: Okay if you’re anything like me you might be wishing that you’re sitting in a restaurant near the beach right now. So why not bring Hawaii to the dinner table. Rhiannon’s cooking with world renounce Chef Mavro whose restaurant near Honolulu has won several prestigious awards.

Rhiannon Ally: If you’re looking for an exotic dish to liven up your dinner table we have just the one for your easy to make at home we have award winning Chef Mavro here all the way from Oahu. Like you’re award, winning restaurant is in Honolulu on Oahu Island and you’re here today to show us how to make poke.

Chef Mavro: Exactly. Thank you.

Rhiannon Ally: Now it’s a marinated fish dish.

Chef Mavro: It is a marinated fish and what I use is I use an Nairagi which is finally quite unusual — I use Hawaiian chili finger this is very, very spicy. You have to make sure you have to wash your hands because it‘s very, very strong so I blended too much. I’m going to put very easy here. I’m going to put some Hawaiian salt and the Ogo so Ogo I’m going cut the Ogo lead a bit.

Rhiannon Ally: You want to cut that up, chop that up.

Chef Mavro: Yeah, this is one of the best ingredient I found here when I came to Hawaii.

Rhiannon Ally: That’s one of your favorites.

Chef Mavro: Oh yeah.

Rhiannon Ally: So it’s an a lot of your dishes in the restaurant Chef Mavro?

Chef Mavro: Yes very specific, you can try it; you want to try this one.

Rhiannon Ally: Sure I love it. It’s really good, it taste kind of salty a little bit.

Chef Mavro: Of course it comes from the sea.

Rhiannon Ally: Yeah, sea salt.

Chef Mavro: And this is Maui onion of course.

Rhiannon Ally: So use a little bit of that.

Chef Mavro: Yeah.

Rhiannon Ally: Okay.

Chef Mavro: And basically this is where we start.

Rhiannon Ally: And then your special ingredient.

Chef Mavro: And my special ingredient Extra Virgin Olive Oil. This is the only one.

Rhiannon Ally: You see how delicate you are with that. This is so easy I think can.

Chef Mavro: You can see our green you can almost imagine the olive inside and now you just have to mix it with everything.

Rhiannon Ally: Okay mix it all up. That’s look wonderful. Thank you so much Chef and your restaurant Chef Mavro is —

Chef Mavro: Chef Mavro Honolulu is a few blocks from Waikiki.

Rhiannon Ally: Okay on the Island of Hawaii.

Chef Mavro: On the Island of Hawaii.

Rhiannon Ally: Thank you so much that’s wonderful. Let’s dig in.

Chef Mavro: Thank you.

Audra Lowe: And you can check out that recipe on our website BetterTV.com on Thursday on Better Chef Mavro will show us an exotic but easy way to make salad.