Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kalua pig. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Kalua Pig is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kalua Pig is something that I have loved my entire life.
This is a simple way of making traditional Hawaiian kalua pig without having to dig a hole in your back yard. All Reviews for Kalua Pig in a Slow Cooker. Kalua Pork is traditionally prepared in an imu (Hawaiian underground oven), but Chef Keoni Chang shares this alternative way to get very similar results in.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have kalua pig using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients
The ingredients needed to make Kalua Pig:
- Get 1 bone in Boston butt pork shoulder 4-6 lbs
- Prepare 6 thick cut slices bacon
- Make ready 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
Kalua pig has nothing to do with Kaluha the coffee liquor. Kalua is a traditional Hawaiian cooking method that uses an imu, a type of underground oven. Kalua pig is often the main attraction at luaus. Kalua pig is a Hawaiian dish which is produced by slowly roasting a pig in an underground pit.
Instructions
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.
Traditional kalua pig is seasoned only with salt, allowing the flavors of the pig and the vegetation it is. Kalua Pig is popular Hawaiian dish served at luaus where a whole pig is smoked in a sand pit with What goes good with Kalua Pork? Boiled cabbage and steamed rice would be the most traditional. Kalua pig is a traditional Hawaiian dish where a whole pig, seasoned only with Hawaiian sea salt, is The word kalua from the name of the dish refers to cooking in an underground pit, called imu in. Oven or stovetop directions: Prepare the pork as for Slow-Cooker Kalua Pig, but in a large Dutch oven or heavy stockpot with a lid.
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