Kalua Pig Recipe

If there is one feast food that is really easy to prepare but still looks festive then nothing can beat Kalua Pork / Kaula Pig as this just contains two ingredients with a very rustic cooking process. Kālua from the dish name describes the traditional Hawaiian cooking method that uses the imu, it also means “to cook in an underground oven” hence traditional way of cooking this is done on a deep dirt fire pit On preparing the dish a large chunk or a whole pig is seasoned just with sea salt then tightly wrapped in banana leaves. It is then covered with wet burlap, then with a layer of sand or soil to keep the meat moist and make the heating even on all sides. It is then laid down on the pit lined with very hot lava rocks, burning ambers…