Hawaiian-Style Smoked Pork (Kalua Pork)

Name: Hawaiian-Style Smoked Pork (Kalua Pork)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: US & Canada, American
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, green tea; 4 teaspoons, kosher salt; 1 tablespoon, packed brown sugar; 2 teaspoons, pepper; 1 (4- to 5-pound), boneless pork butt, trimmed; 1 (13 by 9-inch), disposable aluminum roasting pan; 6 cups mesquite, wood chips, soaked in water for 15 minutes and drained

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2011

Wrapping a suckling pig in banana leaves and roasting it in a hole in the ground was a non-starter. But to replicate the flavors of this luau dish, we tried just about everything else.

SERVES8

TIME5¼ to 6¼ hours, plus 6 hours marinating and 45 minutes resting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This Hawaiian-style barbecued pork is typically made by slow cooking a suckling pig in a pit made out of hot rocks, banana leaves, and kiawe wood, the Hawaiian version of mesquite. The resulting pork has a silky, tender texture and an inten...

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