Hawaiian Kailua Pork Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a 9 x 13 pan with one layer heavy duty aluminum foil or two sheets regular foil.
• Place half the spinach on the bottom where the roast will sit.
• Rub the roast with the salt (sea salt is the best flavor for your pork).
• Place on spinach bed then pour the whole bottle of liquid smoke over it.
• Layer the rest of the spinach on the top and roll the foil up around the pork to cover it entirely like a package.
• (the spinach should be surrounding it and the foil should make it so none of the juices spill out.) Bake in the oven for 5 hours.
• When done it will fall apart and it is shredded easily with a couple of forks.
• Excellent with sticky rice.
• (short-grain rice).

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.

Steps:

• Season the pork shoulder with sea salt.
• Rub liquid smoke on the pork.
• Place banana peel on top of the pork. (banana peel replaces banana leaves for flavor).
• Transfer pork to solar cooking pot and place in solar cooker.
• Solar cook until it is completely cooked (about 4 hours).
• When pork is done, pull apart/shred.
• Serve with rice, stir-fried cabbage, and macaroni salad.

Steps:

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

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.

Steps:

• Pierce pork with a fork; rub with liquid smoke and salt. Place pork in a 6-qt. slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low until pork is tender, 8-10 hours. , Remove roast; shred with 2 forks. Strain cooking juices; skim fat. Return pork to slow cooker. Stir in enough cooking juices to moisten; heat through. If desired, serve with rice. Freeze option: Freeze cooled meat mixture and juices in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally; add broth if necessary.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Place pork roast fat side up in a roasting pan.
• Combine Liquid Smoke and water and pour over meat.
• Sprinkle kosher salt on top of meat; cover and cook at 400 degrees F for three hours, or until meat is done.
• Let cool slightly, then shred.

Steps:

• Combine tea, salt, sugar, and pepper in bowl. Pat pork dry with paper towels and rub with tea mixture. Wrap meat tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 6 to 24 hours. Place pork in pan and cover pan loosely with aluminum foil. Poke about twenty 1/4-inch holes in foil. Using large sheet of heavy-duty foil, wrap 2 cups soaked chips into foil packet and cut several vent holes in top. Make 2 more packets with additional foil and remaining 4 cups chips.
• For a charcoal grill: Open bottom vent halfway. Light large chimney starter three-quarters full with charcoal briquettes (4 1/2 quarts). When top coals are partially covered with ash, pour into steeply banked pile against side of grill. Place wood chip packets on coals. Set cooking grate in place, cover, and open lid vent halfway. Heat grill until hot and wood chips are smoking, about 5 minutes.
• For a gas grill: Place wood chip packets over primary burner. Turn all burners to high, cover, and heat grill until hot and wood chips are smoking, about 15 minutes. Turn primary burner to medium-high and turn off other burner(s). (Adjust primary burner as needed to maintain grill temperature at 300 degrees.).
• Place pan on cool part of grill. Cover (positioning lid vent over meat if using charcoal) and cook for 2 hours. During last 20 minutes of grilling, adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Remove pan from grill. Cover pan tightly with new sheet of foil, transfer to oven, and bake until tender and fork inserted into meat meets no resistance, 2 to 3 hours. Let pork rest, covered, for 30 minutes. Unwrap and, when meat is cool enough to handle, shred into bite-size pieces, discarding fat. Strain contents of pan through fine-mesh strainer into fat separator. Let liquid settle, then return ¼ cup defatted pan juices to pork. Serve. (Pork can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.).