The judges for the cooking contest at the recently held
'Breadfruit Festival Goes Bananas' used the following criteria for scoring each
dish during their tasting; best use of breadfruit, taste, presentation,
originality and use of healthy ingredients. Scoring from 0 to 5, the highest
possible score for any dish was 25 points per judge.
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Chef Olelo pa'a Ogawa Chef Edwin Goto Food writer Joan Namkoong
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Sonia R. Martinez Chef Devin Lowder Peneku Kihoi
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This year the cooking contest was judged by a panel of local chefs and foodies; chef Edwin Goto owner of the 'slow food' restaurant Village Burger; award winning private chef and 'Conscious Hawaiian Cuisine' inventor Olelo pa'a Ogawa; freelance food writer, cookbook author and former Honolulu Advertiser food edito Joan Namkoong; Chef Devin Lowder of Makali'i catering; food writer and cookbook author Sonia R. Martinez and Peneku Kihoi a.k.a. "Auntie Aloha."
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The cooking contest was part of the overall 2nd annual
celebration of breadfruit which took place on Saturday, September 29th at the
Amy B. H. Greenwell Garden in Captain Cook on the Island of Hawai'i (the Big
Island)
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A variety of very imaginative dishes using breadfruit
were entered. This one was just good, tasty, down-home comfort
food.
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First Place winner in the Entrée Category -
‘Ulu with Mountain Pig Stew by Jim Cain of Honoka’a
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'Ulu with Mountain Pig
Stew
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2 firm 'ulu
Smoked Sausage
Water to cover
Pinch of pa'akai
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For the sauce:
3 Tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 cup shoyu
1/8 cup sambal
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Go to the mountain and catch a pig. Make smoked
sausage. Skin and cube 'ulu and chop sausage into bite size pieces. Cover with
water and add a pinch of pa'akai. boil until 'ulu is soft. Add sauce and grind
(*)
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Yield: 8 servings
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Glossary:
'ulu - Hawaiian word for breadfruit
pa'akai - to solidify the
sea; Hawaiian name for salt pond harvested sea salt
shoyu - soy sauce
sambal - chile pepper based sauce used extensively as a
condiment in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Shri Lanka, the Philippines,
Suriname and the Netherlands due to the Javanese influence in those countries.
It can be found commercially but its most often homemade.
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Note: Jim wants to acknowledge and send a mahalo to his
friend Terry Edward of Honoka'a who contributed the homemade pig smoked
sausage.
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Breadfruit
Festival Goes Bananas is a project of Ho'oulu ka 'Ulu and is presented by
Hawai'i Homegrown Food Network, the Breadfruit Institute of the National
Tropical Botanical Garden and Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden. The
Breadfruit Festival Goes Bananas is sponsored by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority’s
Kūkulu Ola—Living Hawaiian Culture Program administered by the Council for
Native Hawaiian Advancement, Kamehameha Schools, Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
Hawai'i Community Foundation—Doc Buyers Fund, Kamehameha Investment Corporation,
Ke Ola Magazine, Ho‘oulu Lāhui, Kua O Ka Lā Public Charter School, West Hawai‘i
Community College Culinary Arts Program, and Big Island Resource Conservation
and Development.
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To learn
more about Ho'oulu ka 'Ulu (Revitalizing the Breadfruit) project please go to www.breadfruit.info
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To read previous articles and recipes posted,
please click on the following links:
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