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Woof!
Do you know what an imu is? It is an earthen pit oven! It is the traditional Polynesian cooking method. THe food is buried in the ground with hot stones to cook.
Click on the different menu items below to get the recipes so you can make them at home.
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Poi
is made by grinding kalo (taro) corms into a sticky paste. It looks
like pink-grey glue, but tastes really good with fish and
pork.
Poke
(poh-key) is made with seaweed and seasoned chunks of raw or cooked
seafood like fish, octopus, or crab. It is an appetizer. 
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Kalua
Pork is usually roasted whole in an imu. It has a rich, smoked taste.
Yum! You can also make it in your oven. Nowdays, it is often served
with cabbage.
Lau lau is pork and taro leaves wrapped in ti leaf and baked or
steamed. If you don't have taro leaves, you can use
spinach.
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Squid
luau looks kind of funny, but it tastes great! It has coconut milk in
it. You can use taro leaves or spinach.
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Lomi
Salmon is a cold dish with onions, tomatoes, and salted salmon. Poi
tastes good with this too!
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'Uala, or sweet potato, was an important food for Hawaiians. You can bake Hawaiian purple sweet potatoes, regular sweet potatoes, or yams for your lu'au.
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Haupia
is coconut pudding. You can make just the pudding and cut it in
squares, like in our picture, or you can ice a cake with haupia if
you want a yummy dessert!
Click here to get all of the Recipes
Woof!
Do you know what a hukilau is?
A Hawaiian seine net is called a hukilau (who-key-lau). When you have a hukilau, you go fishing with the seine net. Everybody wades in from the shore and pulls on the ropes together!
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