How To Make Kalua Pig | Very Easy Recipe 🐷🐖🥬
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- Published October 26, 2020
Kalua pig is a must at luaus in Hawaii. Usually a whole pig is cooked in an underground pit (imu). It requires hours of preparation and many skilled hands to ready the ground and pig for cooking. It requires about 6-10 hours cooking before the kalua pig is ready. You can make this at home in the oven or crock pot and the results are amazing.
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I made this today in my 1990's crockpot. My pork weighed 8 lbs. I used 2 Tbsp liquid smoke. 1 1/2 Tbsp kosher salt. Felt funny, not adding any liquid, lol. I cooked it for 7 hours, flipping it halfway through the cooking time. That's when I started seeing liquid. I ended up with one quart of liquid at the end. Best tasting pork ever! Thank you very much for sharing your recipe.
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Wow auntie I haven't been stabbing the pork before cooking it! This is going to be a game changer
Everything here looks so ono! Mahalo Aunty! It’s so hard to find good Hawaiian food on the mainland. Mahalo for the great alternatives and suggestions. Now I stay getting hungry
I'm definitely going to try this, . And I always wanted to cook pork butt, but didn't know how till I saw this video. Awesome stuff. 👌 😊
Great! So easy, no cutting. Just put it in the crock pot and forget it. You can do it.
Enjoy watching your channel.
I make Kalua pork up here in the Mainland and freeze it because the pork meat is so large. Watching your video made me hungry and plan on making it very soon! Love your local kine recipes! Mahalo!
Sooooo Ono with Ulu mash!❤ Thank you for teaching me!!
Old school hawaiian cooking! Reminds me of grand mama! Awesome!
Mahalo.
My favorite kalua pig and cabbage
I love your videos 😉. You remind me of all my Aunty's back in the old days. Mahalo 🤙🤙🤙.
Making this tonight, started at 1:00, and my kitchen smells amazing 😍. Thank you HPL 🙏🏼 Can’t wait to taste it
Thank you it looks great
Aloha from Los Angeles CA. Thank You So Much 🙏 for your lesson & recipe. So Ono 😊 We just arrived back home from Hawai’i and I am making this ✅. I Appreciate You So Much Mahalo Nui Loa Stay Safe & Take Care ❤🌸✈️🌺🌷
I smashed the like button and commented. Thank you for the great recipe!
Thank you so much 👍
Aloha from Georgia, I was just at home and went to Chef Zone (a divsion of Yata Foods) by the airport, I found Kiawe .liquid smoke in quart bottles, I bought 4 bottles and brought back to Georgia. BIG difference in taste!! My family really loves it. Great video!
Mine JUST finished. Love your recipe!
Oh man you had my mouth watering, 😂 lol ,thank you!!!
So simple, put it in the crock pot and forget it.
@@HawaiisPickleLady going to make it for Father's day, I know it's going to be awesome, again Thank you, from Sacramento, California,
mahalo auntie for sharing ur recipe 🌺👍🌺
My pleasure.
I have made tons of kalua pig using this and similar methods. Next to actually doing a slow smoke, this is my favorite pork
Awesome, can't wait to try this !
You'll love it, it never fails. Great recipe for beginners.
Thank you, Auntie! First time making em this year for the holidays on the mainland. Excited to see how it turns out it!
You'll love it and so easy.
@@HawaiisPickleLadyyes! Very easy indeed! Made me realize I was missing out on waiting for my Dad to make it throughout the years growing up lol
I want this!❤
Aloha Tutu from Tennessee! I make laulau with spinach and mushrooms and the Kalua Pig and sometimes kamoboku. So ono!!!
Interesting. Sounds good. We can buy luau leaves in Vegas but it's about $7 a lb. Some people ship in bulk from Hawaii but you have to buy 20 lbs. I wonder if kale would work cause it's not so strong tasting.
Aloha Mama 🤙🏽 Thank you for the many dish you make out of pork! And I’m going use my crockpot for this! Thanks for the tip! Mahalo 🤙🏽🌺🌺🌺🌺
Thank you for this!
Yum! Time to make kalua. I’ll have to try the Mex dishes, never thought to use kalua pork for that, thanks.
Thanks mom Mahalo 🎉
This looks delicious and easy to make. Mahalo for sharing this recipe ❤
I use Alea, liquid smoke, and banna leaves for 16 hours on low it is so good
You mean alae red salt?
My mouth is watering! This is very similar to how I make it. But, I cook it on low for 16 hours. When I take the meat out to shred it, I throw the cabbage into the juices in the crockpot, and let it wilt as Ii'm shredding. Then,, I add the meat back in it and mix. I haven't make it in a while. Now, I'm craving it. lol Yum!
Try the instant pot. It'll save you hours.
You are so sweet and your doggo is cute (brief appearance in background!). Thank You for sharing these ideas for the pork! I can't wait to try it with the cabbage with added onions and garlic as you mentioned. God bless!
so ono!! thank you aunty for sharing. we will love it in alabama! ...missing hawaii!
Thank you so much❤. I love it!!
Excellent! So many delicious recipes in one video. Thank you!
Had everythin' Tita. Crock pot going. Mahalo Can't wait for the Ono deliciousness tonight.
Hey JM please let me know how the kalua pig turned out it is one of my family's favorite too!
Lenora, It is a lot of thought into the presentation that you do for delivery cause you touch all the basis. Mahalo
Oh thank you!!! Haven't made this in YEARS, and my daughter recently came with me to visit my Hawaii home. She fell in love with Kalua Pig! So making this for her tonight. She's so excited! I think I used too much liquid smoke, but we'll see. LOL Will be making some with cabbage too! Yummy!!!
This is a no brainer, salt it, put some smoke and cook. Easy. You can also do it in the oven, use ti leaves and foil to cover and bake several hours. If you don't have ti leaves, look for dried bamboo leaves in Chinatown. However, you have to soak and wash them and they're real skinny. I also use these for lau laus. Vegas sells them in Chinatown but they cost about 8-9 dollars a pound. Hawaii is about 3 something a pound.
Looks really delicious , I will make this. I’ve had it in Maui at the 808 cafe and it was out of this world. Thank you for the inspiration.
So fast and easy.
Excellent. You remind me of my mother in law. Thank you . Like your style old time Hawaiian cooking. In Jesus name we pray amen.
I appreciate that
We use course sea salt...Hawaiian salt hard to find in Eastern NC.😅
For smoke flavor, we just but the liquid smoke.
Put in deep baking pan and cover loosely with foil and cook em.
Can't afford to go home any more, I retired last year😂
BUT, we still go to Vegas and L & L Hawaiian BBQ in Virginia and Concord, NC to get "close enough" local foods.
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I just had Kalua Pig and cabbage for dinner tonight from an excellent Hawaiian restaurant that my Hawaiian neighbor took me to. I'm hooked! ❤
I been saving the leftover crock pot juice in a container and freeze. When my cooking needs a little something flavor I go get it.
Everything looks so delicious 😍 But that burrito is missing some of that cabbage!
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Lenora, the Hawaiian pickle lady, I love love love your recipes. Can I suggest just another version of kalua pig California style. Add minced garlic, as u lomi in liquid smoke, cover entire pork with swiss chard, seal with foil, as I usually use a roaster. Set roaster at 500 degrees for 1st 1/2 hrs, reduce to 325 degrees next 6hrs
Sounds, this is now your recipe. I love to hear variations. To me there is really no original recipes. We all make changes to our liking.
I try to make that to nite for dinner
Thankyou auntie!!
Thanks auntie!
Yummy, as I watch this video I realize I have all the ingredients. I will be making this right away. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I love you! Going to make this for my family, thank you!
Hope you enjoy
Did I miss this part? 😢 did you add water to the crock pot😮
No water, the liquid comes out from the meat.
Thank you for the video, Auntie!
You're so welcome. We just had it the other night.
Looks absolutely delicious!
It's so easy.
Mahalo Auntie!!! I going Costco tomorrow.
Aloha for sharing your recipes, ideas, and advice. Much appreciated. Mahalo for all your wisdom :) God Bless
Delightful video! Thank you!
You're welcome.
But there is nothing compared to a pig in the Imu eh aunty. Mahalo for sharing your knowledge 🤙👌
you're welcome. Yes, I've watched some backyard imus and there's nothing like it. The taste and aroma draws you in and everyone helps.
Can I come over?😊 That looks 😋 yummy
Thank you for the recipe! Easy and delicious 👏🏼
Glad you tried and liked it.
U making me ono for highway inn
Cheeeeee mahalos looks ono goin try um🙏🏽🤙🏽
Easy, you'll enjoy it. Can also bake in oven with ti leaves wrapped around.
Looks like corned beef😍like it.
Thank you Pickle Lady! I will be making this tonite. I only have about 2 lbs so I'm hoping 4 hours in the crock pot will work.
How did the kalua pig come out?
It came out really good and I had enough for a couple meals and snacks, for my small family of three. I could have cooked for 6 hours to make it even more tender. Thanks for asking!
I like that brand of BBQ sauce you poured on the pull pork.
Yum! Now I’m hungry
Looks ono Aunty.
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My girls LOVE Kalua Pork...
Love this segment, I like the variety of dishes that you made using the pork, very versatile. Do you have a video on how to make chicken hekka?
That's why I need more subscribers. Please spread the word. Glad you enjoy it.
Thank you aunty 🤙🏽
My pleasure 😊
Yummy
Easy to make and comes out so good.
We are able to get ti leaves here in Utah , hawaiian salt that's all . No need liquid smoke no need waste time use liquid smoke. Enough with pork, salt and wrap the pork in the leaf not fully like Lau Lau but just around it that will give the natural flavor from the ti leaf as it cooks and salt . Ono just like that.
Same! Liquid smoke is too over powering and makes it taste less authentic. I just use smoked salt. I smoke alaea salt in a smoker using kiawe wood chips during the summer when I can smoke meats outside. Winter time here is too cold so then i have the smoked Hawaiian salt for winter time crock pot kalua pig with just the salt and Ti levees. I can’t find Ti leaves in the upper Midwest but i get them nailed to me from a friend in Hilo 😋. The leaves freeze ok and just thaw a few as needed
Can you find taro to make poi in Utah? I can’t find it here but I don’t like poi any how. When i have a luau party I just use purple potatoes instead 😂🤭
Greetings Tutuwahine, I noticed that you didn't cut any of the fat from the pork. Is that how I should do it? Was the fat that collected in the bottom too much after it finished cooking and did you pour out some or most of it?
I'm preparing the pork right now for the Superbowl and can't wait to try it! I plan to cook it in my pressure cooker BUT gonna use Dakine slow cooker! Is there anything that I missed?
Pulled Pork sliders and cabbage!
I know it's gonna be Soooooo ONO!!!
It's been so long since I've had this! I left Hawaii so many years ago and totally forgot(I don't know how) this favorite!!
Mahalo 🙂
It's up to you how much fat you keep, but you need some for flavor.
@@HawaiisPickleLady ok yes, I in dipped in with a little measuring cup and poured out the top layer which was ALL the fat. After that layer it was all the pork stock and flavor!😍
It tasted so good, thank you!
Mahalo Auntie🙏🌈
Please make your own BBQ sauce. Simple to do. Bread and sauce is made easily.
Yes, but BBQ sauce for kalua pig?
Thank you
Sweet Baby Ray’s! Yeah!
I add a little shoyu and oyster sauce in my kalua cabbage.
Aunty. You get one recipe for Portuguese bean soup?
I'm making this for ❤dinner this is my favorite food .. I need to go buy liquid smoke ..
Aunty good job look ono dats da hawaiian style
Yes, we just had it for my grand daughter's 21st birthday.
I think i might have messed up putting a bit too much liquid smoke,i didnt stress the "a little goes a long way" and "its concentrated". I got a bit excited making it because there is no hawaiian food here [Michigan] so im making everything's at home
JUST ONE NOTE FROM HAWAII... AFTER THE CROCK POT REMOVE PORK FROM THE POT AND PLACE IN FLAT PAN PLACE IN THE OVEN AT 350 AND CHECK EVERY HALF HOUR. THE MEAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE MOIST BUT A BIT MORE DRY CONSISTANCY. ALMOST LIKE SHREDDED BEEF.
BUT DONT GET ME WRONG THAT LOOKS GOOD.
Auntie? Will you please make Korean chicken?
So many kinds of chicken, which one, fried?
Eating this now, Puka da pot!
Mahalo!
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Mahalo
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Ho auntie making Ono grinds
Try it. My recipes are easy.
I am with you I like more cabbage than pork
You want your grandkids to come visit? Tell them you made this
And teach them how to make it. That's my goal for the young ones to make it.
Im in aunty
My only request is: PLEASE taste the food you make at the end of your videos?!
Almost all the videos, I taste it.
o look so ono i can almost smell it. lol
Oh Nty, Mahalo piha from Utah da buggah looks Ono. I'm gonna make mines dis mornting. It'll be for dinner tonight. With my chkn long rice, lomi salmon, ogo shoyu poke, n Kim chi crab. Anyone knows where we can order ti leaves? Pls hollah, we found banana leaves in the Asian store, using Dat instead unless ohana come visit from hm, den I can't get some n freeze da rest. Mahalo for sharing. Ahui Hou ❤😊 we do have poi here, but frozen, so gotta makem soft again so can me'ai with everything else. Malama pono nty
Poi here comes once a week at International Market and costs $10 for a one pound bag. For ti leaves, I buy bamboo leaves from Chinatown. They"re smaller, skinnier but I substitute for ti leaves. Just soak them and rinse. You can redry if too much.
@@HawaiisPickleLady Aloha ahi ahi and Mahalo Pumehana Nty. Everything you stay make so Ono. Especially the prune mui oh da buggah winnaz. We found da banana leaves, frozen at the Asian store, and kahaluu, kaneohe Wongs luau leaves, and frozen poi at a Polynesian store. Just bummas no moa HI ingredaments here, if get they're far away. But Mahalo again Nty big tyme, from Utah