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  • noun Traditional Hawaiian cooking method.
  • adjective Descriptor used for any type of food, notably pig, that has been cooked using the kalua cooking method.

Etymologies

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Hawaiian kālua

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Examples

  • Called kalua pig, it's prepared in an underground pit, an imu, and paired with other Hawaiian dishes like poke, similar to a ceviche, and poi, a viscous dish made from the taro plant.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Called kalua pig, it's prepared in an underground pit, an imu, and paired with other Hawaiian dishes like poke, similar to a ceviche, and poi, a viscous dish made from the taro plant.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • He added that the buffet-style feast has remained an island favorite for its imu ceremony revealing the kalua pig as it's removed from the underground oven.

    Dawna L. Robertson: Up a Lazy River Dawna L. Robertson 2010

  • Lau lau or kalua pork or loco moco … for roast meats, you might as well go to Chinatown … mad props for eating the spam musubi though!

    Downtown Lunch: L&L Barbecue is the Hawaiian McDonalds | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2009

  • As evening approached, the faculty and the first campers of Aloha Quilt Camp gathered on the central lanai for a Welcome Luau, full of all the delicious flavors Bonnie had come to love: kalua pork cooked all day in the imu, steamed chicken laulaus, vegetable long rice, lomi lomi salmon, and taro rolls, with coconut pudding haupia for dessert.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • You can kalua just about anything, and it taste so good it break da mout.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • So many fun foods to try - POG, Macnut pancakes with coconut syrup, musubi, poke, kalua pork, loco moco, and of course sushi.

    Thank You! 2008

  • You can kalua just about anything, and it taste so good it break da mout.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • As evening approached, the faculty and the first campers of Aloha Quilt Camp gathered on the central lanai for a Welcome Luau, full of all the delicious flavors Bonnie had come to love: kalua pork cooked all day in the imu, steamed chicken laulaus, vegetable long rice, lomi lomi salmon, and taro rolls, with coconut pudding haupia for dessert.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • You can kalua just about anything, and it taste so good it break da mout.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

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