Hawaiian Pulled Pork

saluki2007

Rubbed the butt with only Hawaiian salt.  Wrapped with a banana leaf and cooked at 275 for 8 and half hours. No wood for smoke just Rockwood. Grilled pineapple salsa, yellow rice and kings Hawaiian rolls. Definetly a great change up from traditional smoked pulled pork. 

CPARKTX

Very nice 

GATraveller

Sweet! 

blind99

Looks ridiculously good. Are banana leaves native to your neck of the woods?

bgebrent

Very nice work brother!

saluki2007

blind99 said:

Looks ridiculously good. Are banana leaves native to your neck of the woods?

No they are not. Found them in an Asian Market. Dirt cheap. $1.50 for two leaves. 

blind99

Awesome. I need some. For my someday goal of making cochinita pibil. 

EggHeadinFlorida

what does the banana leaf do to the meat?

Ozzie_Isaac

Nice cook for sure!

saluki2007

EggHeadinFlorida said:

what does the banana leaf do to the meat?

It allows the meat to braise in the natural sugars if the banana leaf and gives the pork a sweet taste. 

fljoemon

Awesome .. I have ton of banana trees in my in-laws backyard .. will try this soon.

Budaman5000

Looks tasty... job well done.

saluki2007

fljoemon said:

Awesome .. I have ton of banana trees in my in-laws backyard .. will try this soon.

The grilled pineapple salsa really helps pull it all together. 

Killit_and_Grillit

Now I must find me an Asian market

pab

You can also find banana leaves in many mexican grocery stores as well. Look in the freezer section.

GatorConch

 Looks great and  I 'm going to try this for New Year's eve. If you don't mind,  since I'm from Key West,  I'm going to call it Conch Republic  pulled pork!

byrne092

Real nice! Thats a great idea

saluki2007

GatorConch said:

 Looks great and  I 'm going to try this for New Year's eve. If you don't mind,  since I'm from Key West,  I'm going to call it Conch Republic  pulled pork!

I think that will be fine especially since neither you or I cooked it in a IMU so it's not traditional anyways. 

Grilltastic

Very creative, did you get any bark? Or pull of the leaves at the end to get bark. Looks delicious 

saluki2007

Grilltastic said:

Very creative, did you get any bark? Or pull of the leaves at the end to get bark. Looks delicious 

No bark. The idea is to braise the meat. 

Grilltastic

Thanks for the info, got  to try this.especially with the pinnacle salsa