Kalua Pig

Adapted from Alan Wong's Restaurant, Honolulu, HI The site won't let me add this in the ingredients, so..... the boneless pork shoulder is sometimes called a Boston roast or Boston butt.

• Ready In: 4 hrs 30 mins
• Yields: 10 cups

Ingredients

• 1  large  banana leaf
• 6  lbs boneless pork shoulder, cut across grain into 6 pieces
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons coarse salt
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons liquid smoke

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 500°F.
2. Lay 2 sheets of foil (each about 1 foot long) on a work surface with long sides overlapping by about 4 inches.
3. Cut 2 (12-inch) lengths from banana leaf and center 1 on foil.
4. Put pork on banana leaf and sprinkle with salt and liquid smoke.
5. Cover top of pork with other 12-inch length of banana leaf and 2 overlapping sheets of foil (each about 1 1/2 feet long).
6. Crimp edges of foil tightly to form a packet and put in a large roasting pan.
7. Add 1 inch of water and cover pan tightly with more foil.
8. Bake pork in middle of oven 4 hours.
9. Pour off liquid from pan and, when pork is just cool enough to handle, shred with 2 forks in a bowl.
10. Serve warm.