Luau Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Season fish, pork and chicken with Hawaiian sea salt. Place 2 ti leaves in an X on a flat surface for each of the 4 servings.
• Place 1/4 of each of the fish, pork and chicken onto the center of 3 or 4 taro leaves. Wrap securely with the taro leaves, then place each wrap on a set of ti leaves. Tie the ends of the ti leaves together with a piece of string.
• Place the bundles in a large steamer, and steam for 3 to 4 hours.

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• Remove bones and skin from chicken breasts and cut meat into 1 inch cubes.
• Heat oil and saute chicken until lightly browned; add garlic and saute one minute.
• Pour chicken stock over the browned meat and garlic, and simmer 10 minutes or until chicken is tender.
• Drain the thawed spinach, then stir spinach and coconut milk into the chicken mixture. Simmer five minutes.
• Serve with rice.

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• Depending on how many people you have, you can increase or decrease this recipe very easily.
• Put the drummettes or wings or chicken pieces in a baking dish.
• Mix the dressing with packaged dry onion soup mix and can (s) of whole berry cranberries.
• If you are making this for a few people, just use one bottle of dressing, one can of cranberries, and one envelope of onion soup mix.
• Increase portions for more drummetes or wings.
• Pour mix of dressing, cranberries and soup over the drummettes or wings, and bake at 350 for an hour and 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Saute the chicken in the oil until just cooked through.
• Add the cream of chicken soup and the coconut milk. Heat until simmering.
• Add the spinach.
• Serve over steamed white rice.

Steps:

• Cover chicken with water; Add ginger, salt and pepper. Simmer until tender (approx. 1 hour). Place luau leaves in large pot; add water, salt, onion and MSG. Simmer on medium heat for about 1 hour. Drain the luau leaves. Just before serving, heat coconut milk and add to drained leaves. Drain chicken pieces and mix into cooked leaves; serve warm. Note: Fish or squid may be substituted for chicken.
• * Spinach can be substituted for luau leaves. Fresh spinach cooks very quickly. If using frozen spinach, cook according to package directions, drain and proceed as above.

Steps:

• For the luau leaves, have a large bowl of ice water standing by. In a large pot fitted with a steamer basket (or use a stainless steel colander with handles), steam the luau leaves until soft but still bright green, and then plunge the steamer basket into the ice water to stop the cooking. Set the steamer basket on a utility platter or over a pot to let drain well and cool.
• Lay the steamed luau leaves out on your work surface, then lay a piece of chicken or a piece of pork on each leaf topped with a piece of fish. Season with sea salt. Enclose the meat and fish in the luau leaves and then package them in ti leaves or aluminum foil. If you are using ti leaves, arrange the leaves perpendicular to each other in across arrangement. The stem of the ti leaf acts as the "string" to tie the package shut. The chicken and pork lau lau can then be cooked in an imu (the earthen oven) or in a conventional oven at 350 degrees F until cooked through, about 1 hour. For a description of the imu, please refer to the recipe for Whole Kahlua Pig Roasted in an Imu for a Luau.

Steps:

• Cut three bacon strips in half; cook until partially cooked but not crisp. Drain on paper towels., Season chicken with salt and pepper; place in a 3-qt. slow cooker. Top each thigh with a half piece of bacon. Top with onion, pineapple and barbecue sauce., Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until chicken is tender. Cook remaining bacon until crisp; drain and crumble. Sprinkle over each serving.

Steps:

• Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes. Heat oil in a large skillet and saute chicken and garlic until light brown. Add stock, cover and simmer for 10 mins or until tender. Drain spinach and stir spinach and coconut milk into skillet.
• Simmer for 5 minutes and serve.

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• Drain pineapple, reserving 1 cup juice and six pineapple slices (save remaining juice and pineapple for another use). In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the brown sugar, ground mustard, garlic salt, pepper and reserved pineapple juice; add chicken. seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for at least 2 hours, turning occasionally., In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and dill. Refrigerate until serving., Drain and discard marinade. Grill the chicken, covered, over medium heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 170°. Grill pineapple slices for 1 minute on each side. , Spread mayonnaise mixture on roll bottoms. Layer with lettuce if desired, chicken and pineapple. Replace roll tops.