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- Kalua Pig
- Lau lau
- Lomi lomi salmon
- Teriyaki chicken
- Chicken long rice
- Poi
- Fresh pineapple
- Haupia
- Coconut Cake
- Sweet potatoes
- Corn on the cob
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- Blue Hawaiis, Mai Tais, or Chi Chis
- Juices
- Soft drinks
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- Haupia
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- 1 can (12oz.) coconut milk
- 4-6 Tbl sugar
- 4-6 Tbl cornstarch
- 3/4 cup water
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- Pour coconut milk into saucepan. Combine sugar and cornstarch; stir
- in water and blend well. Stir sugar mixture into coconut milk; cook
- and stir over low heat until thickened. Pour into 8-inch square pan
- and chill until firm. Cut into 2-inch squares.
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- Festive Luau Pineapple
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- Cut a thick slice from the top and bottom of an unpeeled pineapple.
- Remove center of pineapple in a single cylinder, leaving 1/2 inch of the
- fruit inside the rind. Cut peeled fruit in quarters lenghtwise, remove
- core and cut into eight spears. Replace bottom piece; refill shell with
- spears and replace top. Serve by pulling pineapple from the top.
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- Chicken Long Rice
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- 3 pounds chicken breasts
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
- 1 1/2 tablespoons salt
- 2 bundles (1 3/4 oz. each) long rice (cellophane noodles or bean thread)
- 1 can (6oz.) whole mushrooms, drained
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced green onions
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- Remove skins and bones from chicken and use them to prepare chicken
- stock. Cube chicken. Heat oil in a large skillet; saute chicken and
- garlic until browned. Add broth, ginger and salt; simmer 1 hour or
- until chicken is tender. Soak long rice in warm water for 30 minutes;
- cut into 2 inch pieces. Add long rice and mushrooms to chicken; simmer
- 15 more minutes. Sprinkle with green onions just before serving.
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- Aloha Sweet Potatoes
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- 4-5 medium sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup Pineapple Preserves
- 2 tablespoons butter
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- Boil sweet potatoes in their jackets until tender, about 25 minutes. Let
- cool, then peel and cut into 1/2 inch thick slices. In a large skillet
- melt pineapple preserves and butter; add sweet potatoes to skillet. Cook
- gently; tossing lightly until sweet potatoes are glazed.
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- Kalua Pig
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- 6 lb boneless pork butt
- rock salt
- ti or banana leaves
- 1/2 bottle liquid smoke
- aluminum foil, heavy duty
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- Make deep slashes in pork. Rub rock salt into cuts. Spread ti or
- banana leaves on large sheet of aluminum foil. Place pork on leaves.
- Pour liquid smoke over pork. Wrap leaves around pork and tie
- together. Fold foil tightly around pork. Refrigerate overnight.
- Cook at 500F for 1 hour, lower heat to 400F and cook 4 hours.
- Shred with a fork.
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- Lau laus
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- 1 lb luau (taro leaves) or fresh spinach
- 1 1/4 lbs pork cut in 6 pieces
- 3/4 lbs salmon or butter fish, cut in 6 pieces
- 1 tablespoon rock salt
- 12 ti leaves or aluminum foil
- 1 cup water
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- Wash the taro leaves thoroughly. Remove stem and fibrous part of
- veins by pulling gently with the tip of a knife from the stem out to
- the edge of the leaves. Place pork in bowl. Add salt. Work
- together. Arrange 5 leaves, the largest on the bottom. Place pork
- with fat side up. Place fish on top of pork. Fold leaves over pork
- and fish to form a bundle (puolo). Prepare each ti leaf by cutting
- partially through the stiff rib and stripping it off. Place lau
- lau on the end of a ti leaf and wrap tightly. Wrap another ti leaf
- around in the opposite direction, thereby forming a flat package.
- Tie with string, or fibrous part of ti leaves. Place in a steamer.
- As soon as water is boiling, turn heat to low. Steam lau laus 5 to
- 6 hours. Remove string before serving.
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- Lomi lomi salmon
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- 1/4 pound smoked salmon
- 1/2 onion, thinly sliced
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, cubed
- 6 ice cubes
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- Shred salmon with fingers. Place in bowl. Add onions and tomatoes.
- Press or mash slightly with fingers. Put ice cubes on top.
- Refrigerate. Serve in small side dishes with some of liquid.
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- Coconut Cake
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- 1 pkg (3 3/8 oz) toasted coconut pudding
- 1 cup water
- 1 pkg (1 lb 2 1/2 oz) white cake mix
- 1/2 cup salad oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 pkg (7.2 oz) white frosting mix
- 3/4 cup shredded coconut
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- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9 x 2 inch cake pan.
- In a small bowl soften pudding in water. In a mixing bowl beat cake
- mix and oil; add eggs and beat 4 minutes. Add softened pudding; mix
- well. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool
- cake on rack. Prepare frosting mix according to diretions on the
- package. Frost cake and sprinkle with shredded coconut.
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