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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 Pig, or Kalua Pua'a in Hawaiian, is the central main dish and featured element at almost every Hawaiian luau.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kalua pig using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kalua Pig:
- Prepare 1 bone in Boston butt pork shoulder 4-6 lbs
- Prepare 6 thick cut slices bacon
- Make ready 5 garlic cloves peeled & thinly sliced
- Prepare 1 coarse sea salt approximately 1/2 teaspoon per pound of meat
- Make ready 1 tbsp liquid smoke
Kalua pork, or kalua pig, s traditionally served at lHawaiian luas. The traditional method calls for cooking a whole pig in an underground oven. The pork is usually wrapped in leaves and roasted over. 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.
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.
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 literally means "cooked in an underground oven," which makes sense because this traditional Hawaiian cooking method uses an underground oven called an imu. History of Kalua Pig and Cooking Method: The word "Kalua" literally translates to cook in an underground oven.
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