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Chicken Luau

Serves: 5
Total Calories: 292

Ingredients

2 cups coconut milk
2 pounds chicken
2 tablespoons oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
2 1/2 cups water, divided
2 pounds taro leaves (luau)

Directions:

Prepare fresh coconut milk or use canned coconut milk. Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces. In saucepan, heat oil; add crushed garlic. Add chicken and brown. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt and add 1 cup water. Cover and simmer until chicken is tender.

Wash taro leaves; remove tough stems. Place leaves in a pan with 1 1/2 cups water and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Simmer, partially covered, for one hour. Drain and squeeze water out. Drain chicken; combine with luau leaves. Add coconut milk and bring to a boil. Serve immediately.

Note: Fresh spinach may be substituted if luau is not available.


Fun Fact: Always held at sunset, usually near the beach where the sun sets beautifully over the ocean, a Hawaiian lu¯‘au typically lasts several hours. While you are enjoying the feast, talented performers entertain and educate you about Hawaiian culture with colorful and dramatic dances in traditional costumes. The hula is the most popular dance, where girls in grass skirts perform graceful movements to the strums of the ukulele. Usually the audience gets an opportunity to learn the dance as well.

Typical Luau Food:

  • Kalua Pig

  • Laulau (Chicken, pork, or fish wrapped in ti leaves and steamed)

  • Poi (Pounded taro root)

  • Lomi Salmon (Cold diced salmon with diced tomatoes, onions, and green onions)

  • Chicken Long Rice (Opaque noodles)

  • Chicken Luau (Baked in taro leaves)

  • Mahi Mahi (fish)

  • Yams or Sweet Potatoes

  • Tropical Fruit (Pineapples, mangoes, papayas)

  • Sweet Potato or Poi Rolls

  • Haupia (Coconut-flavored dessert; a stiff pudding)

  • Mai Tais or other tropical drinks and punches

    • Nutritional Facts:

    Serves: 5
    Total Calories: 292
    Calories from Fat: 177

    This Chicken Luau recipe is from the Best of the Best from the Pacific Rim Cookbook Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


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