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Moa Luau (Chicken and Taro Leaves)

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6 servings

You will need
1 ¼ pounds chicken
1 ½ tablespoons butter
1 ½ teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons fat
2 ½ cups of water
3 bunches luau (60 taro leaves)

Clean and cut the chicken in 1-inch cubes. Heat the fat and fry the chicken until it is brown. Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 cup of water and simmer the chicken until it is tender.

Wash the taro leaves. Remove the stem and tough part of the rib. Place the luau, butter 1½ cups of water and remaining salt in a sauce pan. Partially cover and simmer them for 1 hour or until there is no “sting” noticeable to the taste.

Press the excess liquid from the luau, drain the chicken and combine it with the luau. Allow the mixture to come to the boiling point and serve immediately. Fresh or canned spinach may be used in place of the luau.

Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1972

Creepy Tiki/ Mai Tai

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Creepy TIKI

You will need
1 oz. dark rum
1 oz. light rum
½ oz. orange curacao
½ oz. grenadine
1 oz. lemon juice
5 oz. pineapple juice

Mix all ingredients in a blender with cracked ice. Blend and pour into a 12-ounce pilsner glass. Garnish with an orchid, squeeze of lime and straws.

MAI TAI

You will need
1 oz. dark rum
1 oz. light rum
½ oz. orange curacao
½ oz. orgeant syrup
1 oz. lemon juice
½ teaspoon sugar
bacardi rum 151 proof

Muddle sugar and lemon juice in a mai tai glass and fill with cracked ice. Add orange curacao, orgeant syrup, ligh and dark rums and float the 151 bacardi rum. Garnish with a sprig of mint, a cherry, a pineapple chunk, squeeze of lime and straws.

© Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1972

Cream of Luau Soup

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6 servings

You will need
1 ½ cups cooked luau pulp (2 bunches of luau)
4 ½ cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
2 ½ tablespoons flour
1 ¾ teaspoons salt
pepper if desired

See recipe number 5 on how to prepare luau for cooking.

Press the luau through a sieve. Measure it so that there will be 1 ½ cups of cooked pulp. Melt the butter, add the flour, and mix until a smooth paste is formed.

Stir in the milk gradually and cook until the mixture thickens. Add the luau and seasonings and serve hot.

Notes and instructions from recipe number 5:
2 bunches of luau is 40 taro leaves.
Wash the taro leaves. Remove the stem and tough part of the rib. Place the luau 1 ½ tablespoons butter, 1 ½ cups water and ½ teaspoon salt in a sauce pan. Partially cover and simmer them for 1 hour or until there is no “sting” noticeable to the taste.

© Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1972

Pineapple Chicken Curry

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6 to 8 servings

You will need

4 pounds chicken
4 medium sized onions
2 to 3 stalks celery
5 tablespoons olive or cooking oil
5 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons curry powder (more if you like it hotter)
½ teaspoon salt
1 quart chicken stock
¼ cup seedless raisins
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup crushed pineapple, well drained
1 ½ cup heavy cream

Cut up chicken for fricassee and boil until tender with a small onion, sliced, and two or three stalks of celery. Strain the stock and add chicken soup if there is not a quart of the stock.

Remove chicken meat from the bones, discard skin and cut meat into bite-sized pieces. Fry onions in oil, mix curry powder and salt with flour and stir into oil. Simmer for a few minutes and add chicken stock.

Put into double boiler and add raisins, pineapple and lemon juice and cook for half hour. Add heavy cream, chicken and more salt if needed, and cook about 15 minutes over a low fire.

To add attractiveness to the dish serve in hollowed out pineapple shells with some leaves left on.

Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1972