Dinner
Kalua Pork
Pork shoulder rubbed with coarse Hawaiian salt and liquid smoke, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked for eight hours…
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Slow-roast pork, rice and the plate lunch. 10 Hawaiian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 10 recipes cover 6 of the site’s categories, among them 4 dinners, 2 lunches, 1 appetiser or small plate, 1 bake, 1 breakfast and 1 dessert. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 7, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 7 easy, 2 medium and 1 hard.
As written, 3 are vegetarian, 1 vegan, 4 gluten-free and 6 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Hawaiian recipes — all 10 recipes
Breakfast
Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
Desserts
Haupia
Coconut milk set with cornflour into a firm, sliceable pudding, cut into squares. Three ingredients, Hawaiian, and…
Lunch
Spam Musubi
A slab of glazed Spam on a block of sushi rice, wrapped in nori. Hawaii's most-eaten snack, sold from every petrol…
Baking
Malasadas
Soft, eggy yeast doughnuts without a hole, fried until golden and rolled in sugar. The Portuguese sweet that became…
Appetizers
Lomi Lomi Salmon
The luau salad of Hawaii: salmon lightly cured in salt, diced and worked by hand with ripe tomato, sweet onion and…
Dinner
Pineapple Chicken Skewers
Chicken, fresh pineapple, red pepper and onion on skewers, marinated in lime, ginger and garlic and grilled until…
Dinner
Hawaiian Lau Lau
Pork shoulder and salmon wrapped in spinach and foil, then steamed for four hours until the meat is meltingly soft.
Lunch
Hawaiian Mac Salad
A creamy Hawaiian plate lunch side of soft macaroni, mayonnaise, grated carrot and onion, with a little vinegar for…
Dinner
Huli Huli Chicken
Chicken thighs marinated in pineapple juice, soy sauce and ginger, then grilled for 45 minutes and turned and basted…