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kalua pig

Recipe by
Vicki Butts (lazyme)
Grapeview, WA

Adapted from Alan Wong's Restaurant, Honolulu, HI.

yield 10 cups
prep time 15 Min
cook time 4 Hr
method Bake

Ingredients For kalua pig

  • 1 lg
    banana leaf
  • 6 lb
    pork shoulder (also called boston roast or boston butt), cut across grain into 6 pieces
  • 2 1/2 Tbsp
    coarse salt
  • 2 1/2 Tbsp
    natural liquid smoke-flavoring

How To Make kalua pig

  • 1
    Lay 2 sheets of foil (each about 1 foot long) on a work surface with long sides overlapping by about 4 inches.
  • 2
    Cut 2 (12-inch) lengths from banana leaf and center 1 on foil. Put pork on banana leaf and sprinkle with salt and liquid smoke. Cover top of pork with other 12-inch length of banana leaf and 2 overlapping sheets of foil (each about 1 1/2 feet long). Crimp edges of foil tightly to form a packet and put in a large roasting pan. Add 1 inch of water and cover pan tightly with more foil.
  • 3
    Bake pork in middle of oven 4 hours. Pour off liquid from pan and, when pork is just cool enough to handle, shred with 2 forks in a bowl. Serve warm.

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