Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kalua pig. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Kalua Pig is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Kalua Pig is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Kalua Pig, or Kalua Pua'a in Hawaiian, is the central main dish and featured element at almost every Hawaiian luau. At a traditional Hawaiian luau, cooking the pig is no easy task. Kalua pork is a smoked shredded meat.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook kalua pig using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kalua Pig:
- Get 1 bone in Boston butt pork shoulder 4-6 lbs
- Take 6 thick cut slices bacon
- Get 5 garlic cloves peeled & thinly sliced
- Take 1 coarse sea salt approximately 1/2 teaspoon per pound of meat
- Make ready 1 tbsp liquid smoke
Bite for bite, I honestly don't think I can come up with an easier recipe than this one. All you need is a big pork roast, a few slices of bacon, Hawaiian Sea Salt, and PATIENCE! When chef Sam Choy doesn't have the time to build an imu, he makes this oven-cooked kalua pig. The dish is often served with sweet potatoes and poi (mashed taro root).
Instructions to make Kalua Pig:
- Line a crock pot with 3 slices of the bacon
- Using a paring knife, stab holes all over the meat concentrating on the top & sides. Insert the garlic slices into the holes.
- Sprinkle & rub the sea salt all over the meat & into the spaces between the muscles, using approximately 1/2 teaspoon per pound. Remember, you can add salt, but it's hard to unsalt.
- Place the butt in crock pot.
- Drizzle with the liquid smoke.
- Lay the remaining 3 slices of bacon on top of the butt. Let excess hang over sides.
- Cover & cook on high 4-6 hours.
My favorite Hawaiian pork dish ever. Typically seen at Luaus in Hawaii this amazingly easy and incredibly delicious Hawaiian style slow cooker Kalua pork is a mostly hands off recipe, my favorite kind of recipe. This is also called crock pot kalua pork, kalua pig, luau pork. Kalua Pig is popular Hawaiian dish served at luaus where a whole pig is smoked in a sand pit with sea salt, banana leaves and koa wood. This simple crock pot method mimics the smoked flavor of using natural liquid smoke and the results are an easy, mouth-watering, juicy pork recipe anyone can make at home..
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