Friend of Julie: Kalua Pig

This Kalua Pig recipe is easy to make but it needs to cook for about 16 hours in a crock pot. It's well worth the wait. Kalua Pig is popular in Hawaii where a whole pig is smoked in a sand pit with sea salt, banana leaves, and a special wood. This simple recipe is great for those of us who don't have access to banana leaves or access to a sand pit. The smoked flavor in this recipe comes from liquid mesquite smoke, which you can find in the store next to barbecue sauces.

Kalua Pig

Ingredients

• 3 lb lean pork shoulder blade roast
• 1 tbsp liquid mesquite smoke
• coarse sea salt

Directions

1. Remove all fat from the pork.
2. Using the tip of a knife poke all over the pork.
3. Rub sea salt all over pork. 
4. Place pork in a crock pot. 
5. Drizzle the liquid smoke all over the pork.
6. Set crock pot to low and cook about 16 hours.
7. Remove pork from crock pot and place on a large platter. 
8. Remove any fat you may have missed.
9. Shred pork with two forks. 
10. Discard liquid reserving a little as needed to keep pork moist.

Kalua Pig

Recipe source: Skinny Taste.com