Recipes

Kiawe-Smoked Turkey

Poultry 4 hrs · Intermediate · Serves 10-12 Turkey is the easiest large bird to oversmoke. It has thin, lean muscle and a huge surface area, so it absorbs smoke...

Palusami

Veggies & More · Samoa 1 hr · Easy · Serves 6 as a side Palusami is Samoan: young taro leaves packed around coconut cream, salt, and onion, wrapped in...

Guava-Glazed Back Ribs

Beef · Hawaii 4-5 hrs · Easy · Serves 4 Beef back ribs are the bones the butcher takes out of a ribeye roll, which is both the appeal and...

Smoked Lau Lau

Pork 4 hrs · Advanced · Serves 6 Lau lau is pork and salted butterfish bundled in lūʻau (young taro) leaves, wrapped again in ti leaves, and steamed for hours...

Opihi with Garlic-Shoyu Butter

Seafood · Hawaii 5 min · Easy · Serves 4 as pupu ʻOpihi are Hawaiian limpets — three endemic species, ʻālinalina, makaiauli and koʻele — and they live clamped to...

Kiawe-Planked Salmon

Seafood · Hawaii 2–4 hr marinade + 40 min · Easy · Serves 4 Plank cooking is the gentlest way to put wood flavor into fish — the board shields...