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A New Experiment, Lau Lau Pork Southern Style

GulfCoastBBQ
GulfCoastBBQ Posts: 145
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I am trying something a little different that I think will be pretty good, Lau Lau Southern style!

Lau Lau is a Hawaiian dish consisting of meat, generally a combo of pork and salted butterfish, wrapped into little packets with taro leaves and ti leaves and cooked in an underground oven with hot rocks.

I bought a fresh picnic shoulder and skinned and de-boned it. I cut it into about 3 oz. chunks, seasoned and wrapped them along with a piece of fresh sheepshead fillet inside of fresh collard green leaves forming little packets. I put the packets into a big foil pan with holes in the bottom to let the fat out and the egg flavor in, covered with more collard green leaves and foil, and placed it over a drip pan of apple juice. I plan to roast it in the egg overnight at about 275 for around 11 hours. With any luck it will be done before I have to head to work in the morning.

So, what do you guys think? Delicious or disaster?
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  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    Time will tell. B) Best of luck.Lookin forward to the results. :)
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  • GulfCoastBBQ
    GulfCoastBBQ Posts: 145
    I guess nobody has posted anything here about an attempt at Lau Lau. I tried a search and came up empty. Maybe I am the first to try it?


    It seems like a perfect fit for the egg, I will be sure to post some pics when it is finished.
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  • JLOCKHART29
    JLOCKHART29 Posts: 5,897
    I don't know about the timeing. 11 hours for 3 oz chunks sounds like a long time but wrapped up like that it may act more like one chunk of meat. Not sure. Sounds great and look forward to pics and results. I would think timing would be the trick to this thing if you are not going off temp probe. Good luck!
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  • boston_stoker
    boston_stoker Posts: 794
    Unfortunately, the forum does not index words that are three letters or less, so you can't search for them.

    Sounds like an interesting cook. Let us know how it turns out.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    It sounds pretty good to me, however I agree with JL that it seems like a long time for small pieces of meat.

    For searching the forum sometimes I just use google advances search and you can specify a web site to search. You can also use keyword "site":

    site:www.eggheadforum.com lau

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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