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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (0g)

Recipe makes 10 servings

The following items or measurements are not included below:

2 pork butt

rock salt

3 ounces liquid smoke

Calories 0
Calories from Fat 0 (0%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 0.0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0.0g 0%
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 0mg 0%
Potassium 0mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 0.0g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0.0g 0%
Sugars 0.0g
Protein 0.0g 0%

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Kalua Pork

Recipe #178628 | ½ day | 25 min prep | add private note
Color Guard Mom

By: Color Guard Mom
Jul 21, 2006

Our pastor's wife, while we were stationed in Hawaii, gave me this recipe. It taste just like the imu pit roast pork, like they serve at luaus. It's really easy to prepare too. I get tons of compliments and requests for the recipe every time I make it. It is really suppose to say 1 handful of rock salt, but the system won't take that as a measurement. I usually halve the recipe, so I'm not real sure how many servings this makes. I know it makes LOTS. Also - not sure what the size of the bottle is for liquid smoke, but it's small and I believe it is the only size you can buy at a regular grocery store. This can be frozen and tastes just as good, even a month later!

SERVES 10 -12 (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Cut deep slices in pork, make criss cross pattern.
  2. 2
    take handful hawaiian rock salt and rub it into the meat, making sure to get into the slices.
  3. 3
    drizzle one bottle of liquid smoke over pork, making sure it gets into cracks.
  4. 4
    sprinkle garlic and pepper over top of pork.
  5. 5
    lay onion rings on top.
  6. 6
    slice bananas into halves or thirds and lay on top of pork and in cracks.
  7. 7
    put a little water on bottom of pan.
  8. 8
    cover tightly with foil and slow bake over night at 250 to 300 degrees.
  9. 9
    when done, remove onions and bananas and shred meat.

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From: Kathy!!

On Sep 22, 2008

I am very glad I used this recipe for our family reunion Luau. It has been many years since we were stationed in Hawaii and had REAL kalua pig but this recipe just seemed right. I followed recipe except didn't used any onion. I thought it was terrific.

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  • From: SOG

    On Sep 18, 2006

    There nothing like real kalua but this is very close. Recipe say rock salt and then calls for hawaiian rock salt.. there is a big difference in the taste but I used a sea salt. Will use part of my precious stash of hawaiian salt next time

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  • From: Sabia

    On Feb 9, 2007

    I have a similar recipe for this. It uses coarse sea salt instead of rock salt and doesn't have the last four ingredients but the technique is the same. Also, if you want you can do this recipe in a slow cooker easily. Instead of covering the meat in foil and baking it in the oven you put it in a slow cooker and cook it on low over night or a minimum of 12 hours. (You'll have to restart your crockpot again if it won't cook longer than 10 hours like mine.) You can then shred the meat with the juices in the crockpot to soak the juices back into the meat.

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  • From: Chef #269843

    On Jan 31, 2007

    This dish is absolutely delicious! I make up 5 lbs at a time using this recipe and I add about 1/4 cup of brown sugar to it before cooking. It gives it a little more of the taste that I remember from the luau. We eat on it for a few days and freeze the rest. I have been serving it up traditionally as well as making soft tacos with it.

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