Lau Lau- Bundles of local Hawaiian ingredients- Kimi Werner Recipe
Lau Lau is a comfort food of Hawaii. Usually cooked in an underground oven called an imu, these bundles of meat and salted fish are wrapped in taro leaves and steamed for hours. In this episode, Kimi makes one standard lau lau then uses collard greens instead of taro leaves to make an experimental one. Cooked in an instant pot, they only take one hour to steam. She uses venison and local fish but you can experiment using whatever you have! Remember, Chili pepper water as. condiment is a must to go with it!
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How to Make Traditional Hawaiian Lau Lau
Learn how to make Lau Lau with the instant pot or the traditional steamer. Lau lau may look like a green mess but the flavors from the luau leaves and pork will make you want to eat more. Lau lau is a Hawaiian dish that is found at any luaus or local restaurant. Prepping lau lau can also easily be turned into a fun family activity.
Ingredients:
2 lb pork butt
1 lb pork belly
½ butter fish
Hawaiian salt
Ti leaves or foil
Luau leaves (kalo leaves) or collard green or spinach
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How to Make Hawaiian Squid Luau - Recipe
Squid luau is part of Hawaii’s favorite local dish. It goes great with any luau dishes like lomi salmon, kalua pork, poi, etc. Squid luau has an irresistibly savory and slight sweetness that will make you keep coming back for more. #squidluau #luauleaves #luaudish
Ingredients:
2 lb luau leaves
1 lb squid (or chicken, beef, octopus)
1 tsp Hawaiian salt
1/2 cup of diced sweet onions
3 tbsp butter
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 can coconut milk (13.5 oz)
*Some Asian/Polynesian markets may sell luau leaves.
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How Lau Lau Instant Pot Style
Ingredients:
- 1pkg pork butt; cut into 2-3” chunks
- luau leaves
- Hawaiian sea salt
Optional:
- butterfish; skinned and cut into 2” pieces
- sweet potato; cut into 1” chunks
Prep work:
- *Thoroughly wash the leaves under cold water and pat dry on paper towel
- With the washed leaves depending on the size of it (these were medium size) so I used about 4 to layer. place pork & ingredients in, sprinkle with salt and neatly wrap.
- Take wrapped roll and wrap in foil
- pour 1c water in base of pot
- layer foil wrapped lau lau inside pot
- pressure cook high for 1hr
- manually open vent and then rotate lau lau inside
- cook for another 30mins with NPR
Crock Pot Laulau
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Laulau or lau lau is one of very few traditional Hawaiian dishes. They are usually pork and salt fish wrapped in luau (taro) leaf, wrapped in ti leaf, then wrapped either with the stem of the ti leaf or a piece of string and then put into a pressure cooker to cook. We would get together to make these at times and sit and talk while it cooked, then take home our green packets of goodness :) When I saw this recipe to cook it in the slow cooker, I had to make it. It was delicious.
Unfortunately, this is a dish that only locals (from Hawaii) or people with access to taro and ti leaves can make, sorry. There really isn't a substitute. Some places do a mock laulau with spinach, but it really is not the same.
6 lbs. boneless pork butt or country-style ribs
2 lb. fresh luau leaves, cleaned and washed.
Hawaiian salt, to taste (approx. 3 Tbsp.)
3 Tbsp. shoyu
6 ti leaf, cleaned and thick rib removed
1/4 c. water
Cut pork butt into 1-1/2 inch cubes and place in large bowl. Add salt and shoyu, mixing so that all pieces are covered evenly. Line 5-quart crock-pot bottom and sides with 4 ti leaves, shiny side up (facing food). Place slightly more than half the luau leaves over the ti leaves, forming a slight basket up the sides of the crock pot. Place pork on the luau leaves and cover with remaining luau leaves. Place remaining ti leaves over top (shiny side down, facing food), tucking in edges. Add water down the sides of ti leaves. Cover tightly with foil and crock pot cover. Cook on low for 8 hrs. or until luau leaves are fully cooked (dark green and soft). I received feedback that the fast 4 hr. version caused their mouth to itch. Luau leaves need to be thoroughly cooked so that this does not happen, so I encourage you to do the 8 hr. version.
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EASY INSTANT POT LUAU STEW | Keeping It Relle
This recipe for luau stew is made quick and easy in the Instant pot. Say what? What used to take hours to make can now be made in just about 45 minutes.
Juicy, tender beef chunks with vibrant green luau leaves pressure cooked in a beef broth come together in this classic Hawaiian dish. Growing up in Hawai’i meant always having this yummy meal at family gatherings.
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Ingredients:
1 pound luau (taro) leaves
1 1/2 pounds beef stew meat
4 slices ginger
Hawaiian salt to taste
1 teaspoon Better Than Bouillon Beef Base
1 cup water
Directions:
Set Instant Pot to saute mode.
Trim off stems and thick veins from luau (taro) leaves. Rinse leaves well. Roll up leaves and cut into strips.
To the Instant Pot add beef, ginger, Hawaiian salt, Better Than Bouillon Beef Base, and water. Then add luau leaves. Place lid on Instant Pot and set valve to sealing. Turn off saute mode. Cook on manual high pressure for 25 minutes. Allow natural pressure release for 10 minutes, then quick release the remainder of the pressure.
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