Recipes

Grilled Ula (Spiny Lobster)

Seafood · Hawaii 12 min · Easy · Serves 2-4 ʻUla is the Hawaiian spiny lobster — no claws, all tail, and a sweeter, firmer meat than a Maine lobster...

Shoyu Chicken, Smoked

Poultry 1 hr · Easy · Serves 4-6 Shoyu chicken is the local braise — thighs simmered down in shoyu, sugar, ginger, and garlic until the liquid reduces onto the...

Okinawan Sweet Potatoes

Veggies & More 1 hr · Easy · Serves 4-6 Okinawan families came to Hawaiʻi's sugar plantations beginning in 1900, and the purple sweet potato came with them. It's been...

Grilled Turkey Tails (Muli Pipi)

Poultry · Samoa 2 hrs · Easy · Serves 4-6 Turkey tails arrived across the Pacific as cheap American export meat after the Second World War and became a fixture...

Kalua-Style Pulled Pork

Pork · Hawaii 10+ hrs · Intermediate · Serves 10 Kalua literally means 'to cook in the pit.' For centuries Hawaiians buried whole pigs over kiawe coals and hot stones,...

Pulehu Steak

Beef 20 min · Easy · Serves 4 Pūlehu means to broil over hot coals. Not smoke, not roast — coals. It is the oldest cooking method in the Hawaiian...