#hawaiian

2 viral recipes tagged #hawaiian.

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  Japanese · Snack · 55 min

  Spam Musubi

  Spam musubi is Hawaii's ultimate grab-and-go snack: a warm block of sticky short-grain rice topped with a slice of teriyaki-glazed Spam and belted with a strip of nori. Pan-frying the Spam until the edges caramelize, then glazing it in a quick soy-mirin sauce, gives salty-sweet savory bites with a slightly crisp edge against the soft rice. Pressing everything in a mold while the rice is still warm is the trick that makes each piece hold together neatly enough to wrap and take anywhere.

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  Hawaiian · Main course · 350 min

  Babi Kalua

  Kalua pork is the smoky, salty centerpiece of a Hawaiian luau: pork shoulder cooked low and slow until it collapses into silky shreds. This oven version stands in for the traditional imu (underground oven) with three honest shortcuts — coarse alaea sea salt, a spoonful of real liquid smoke, and a tight banana-leaf-and-foil wrap that traps steam so the meat braises in its own juices. The result is deeply savory, fall-apart pork with just three core ingredients and almost no hands-on work.

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