Oven Smoked Kalua Pork Recipes

KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• After scoring pork on all sides with 1/4-inch deep slits about 1-inch apart, rub with 3 tablespoons salt, then liquid smoke. Wrap the pork completely in ti leaves, tie with string, and wrap in foil. Place meat in a shallow roasting pan with 2 cups of water and roast for 4 hours. Dissolve 1 tablespoon Hawaiian salt in 2 cups boiling water and add a few drops of liquid smoke. Shred the cooked pork and let stand in this solution for a few minutes before serving.

OVEN KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make several slashes along the surface of the pork butt. Rub with salt, then liquid smoke. Prepare ti leaves by removing the rib. Lay out a large piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil, and place 4 ti leaves on top. Place pork on leaves and wrap them around the pork. Cover with remaining leaves in the opposite direction until pork is completely wrapped. Wrap the foil tightly around the pork to make a watertight seal.
• Place package in a large roasting pan. Fill with two inches of water and cover pan tightly with foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Lower temperature to 325 degrees F and cook for 3-3 1/2 hours or until tender. Unwrap pork from package and shred before serving.

OVEN KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Rub liquid smoke and 1 1/2 tablespoons of the salt into the skin of the pork. Wrap well in foil, and seal completely. Place in a roasting pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until an internal temperature of 145 degrees F (63 degrees C) is reached, about 5 hours. Remove from oven and let cool before shredding. Sprinkle the shredded meat with the remaining 1 tablespoon of salt.

OVEN-STYLE KALUA PORK OR PIG

Steps:

• Each Pork Butt weighs in differently. For each pound of Pork use: ½ tablespoons Salt & ¾ tablespoons Liquid smoke (I use Hawaiian Salt and the Mesquite Flavor liquid Smoke, that tastes more like the real thing).
• Pre-heat the oven to 500?.
• Rub the Liquid Smoke all over the meat and then sprinkle evenly with the Sea Salt .
• Wrap the meat, Burrito style, in your leaves and then in Heavy Duty Foil.
• Place in a baking pan/dish and cover tightly with more foil.
• In it goes to the oven for 30 minutes, then reduce the heat to 325?.
• Bake for an additional 3 ½ hours.
• Allow to cool, unwrap and discard the foil and leaves (save any juices).
• Shred the meat how you like, either by hand or using two forks, combining it with those lovely juices.
• Serve warm, the way we do in Hawaii, with steamed White (or Brown) Rice. MMM! ONO!
• **Cook's Note: Banana Leaves can be found in Ethnic markets in the freezer section. Of course, if you're lucky enough to find Green (not multi-colored) Ti Leaves, that would make it truer to the Imu-Cooked (underground pit-oven) Kalua Pig.

OVEN KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Make several slashes on the surface of the pork butt.
• Rub with salt, then liquid smoke.
• Lay out 4 ti leaves on the aluminum foil.
• Place pork on leaves and wrap them around the pork.
• Cover with remaining leaves in the opposite direction until pork is completely wrapped.
• Fold the foil tightly around the pork to make a watertight seal.
• Place in a large roasting pan filled with two inches of water and cover pan tightly with foil.
• Bake at 350° for 1 hour.
• Then lower temperature to 325°; cook until tender (about 3 to 3-1/2 hours).
• Unwrap pork from package and shred before serving.

KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place pork fat-side up in a roasting pan or deep casserole dish. Combine water and liquid smoke; pour over meat. Sprinkle with salt. Cover and roast in a preheated oven for three hours. Remove from pan and shred.

AUNTIE MAEBELLE'S OVEN KALUA PORK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 500deg.
• Slit pork in several places, rub salt and liquid smoke into pork.
• Wrap pork with ti leaves, then in the foil, place on a small rack in a baking pan,.
• Lower heat to 400deg.,
• bake for 4hrs.
• Shred pork and add juices from the pan to the pork, according to your taste. Enjoy!
• (note: Liquid Smoke is available in supermarkets.
• in the BBQ section).