kalua pig
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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
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1 lgbanana leaf
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6 lbpork shoulder (also called boston roast or boston butt), cut across grain into 6 pieces
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2 1/2 Tbspcoarse salt
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2 1/2 Tbspnatural liquid smoke-flavoring
How To Make kalua pig
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1Lay 2 sheets of foil (each about 1 foot long) on a work surface with long sides overlapping by about 4 inches.
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2Cut 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.
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3Bake 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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