Pork lau lau is Hawaiian soul food at its finest: Fatty pork wrapped in taro leaves, then pressure cooked in a steamer oven until it's melt-in-your-mouth tender. Traditionally, lau lau is cooked in an underground imu oven for many hours, often accompanied by salted butterfish and sweet potato. Though the pork is served inside the taro leaves, the leaves are not to be eaten—their only purpose is to seal in flavor and moisture, to create intensely juicy, succulent pork.
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