Kalua Pig - cooking recipe

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

Preparation

Preheat oven to 500\u00b0F.
Lay 2 sheets of foil (each about 1 foot long) on a work surface with long sides overlapping by about 4 inches.
Cut 2 (12-inch) lengths from banana leaf and center 1 on foil.
Put pork on banana leaf and sprinkle with salt and liquid smoke.
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).
Crimp edges of foil tightly to form a packet and put in a large roasting pan.
Add 1 inch of water and cover pan tightly with more foil.
Bake pork in middle of oven 4 hours.
Pour off liquid from pan and, when pork is just cool enough to handle, shred with 2 forks in a bowl.
Serve warm.