What is the history of Hawaiian chicken?

Question

history behind and how it came about

Answer 1

what kind of Hawaiian chicken? Huli Huli? if so this means to flip or turn over, basted in a soy based sauce and charcoal broiled. mostly made for fund raising events. ono!

Answer 2

The first chickens came to Hawaii in canoes migrating from the Marquesas thousands and thousands of years ago.  If you are referring to the Huli Huli Chicken, here is it's history.

The Hawaiian Islands have their own rotisserie tradition — sort of.

  

The double-grill "huli" method has been used here for decades.



In 1955, Ernest Morgado of Pacific Poultry was feeding a group of farmers at a promotional meeting. He barbecued a batch of chicken using his mother's marinade recipe, and the result was so popular that he began making the chicken to sell at fund-raisers.

Morgado barbecued mass quantities of chickens between two grills. When one side of the chicken halves was cooked, someone would shout, "huli," Hawaiian for "turn," and the workers would flip the grills over.

Morgado liked the name "huli- huli" so much that he registered the trademark with the Territory of Hawai'i in 1958 and the federal government in 1965. Later, he began bottling the marinade, now an Island staple.

Though the double-grill "huli" method isn't, strictly speaking, rotisserie, some of today's chicken fundraising companies have begun using contraptions with multiple rotisseries that "huli" without human help.

LIKE SURFING AND pure cane sugar, huli chicken sold straight from smoking barbecues in parking lots and roadside pullouts is a Hawaiian institution. Just ask retired University of Hawaii professor Jim Koshi, who's been buying mesquite-grilled halves of this succulent, specially sauced chicken for as long as he can remember. Along with other loyal followers, he lines up in the hot sun and smoke because sales benefit local groups--and because huli chicken is so ono (delicious) it brok da mout (literally translated, breaks the mouth).

Huli is Hawaiian for turn, and refers to the way brawny barbecuers flip big racks of sizzling, spitting marinated chicken halves over hot coals. However, the real secret of this island-style entree is Huli-Huli Sauce, a registered brand name for an old family recipe refined by Hawaii-born chicken farmer Ernie Morgado.

"Actually, it was really my mother's recipe," admits the 77-year-old Morgado a little sheepishly. "I was the youngest of seven kids and everybody liked their sauce different. My father liked it salty. We kids liked it sweeter. Today we make it the way I like it: just a little on the sweet side, with lots of fresh ginger juice and aged soy sauce."

A TASTY LOCAL FUND-RAISER

Morgado is president of the Pacific Poultry Company in Honolulu, which he founded in 1954 as the first commercial operation raising and processing chicken in the Islands. He quickly became famous among both farmers and suppliers for parties where he served marinated, barbecued chickens. Within just a few years, his culinary talents were in demand for a growing number of local potluck fund-raisers. "When it got to where I was away more weekends than I was at home, I knew I had to do something," he says, "but I didn't want to open a restaurant."

The result was a unique program that has been helping charitable Hawaii organizations--from local churches and youth groups to the University of Hawaii sports program--to raise funds for more than 30 years. Groups make at least $1.50 for every half-chicken sold. Last year, Pacific Poultry ran up to six benefit barbecues per weekend, and Huli-Huli Chicken sales helped raise more than $800,000 for community groups.

While organization volunteers help with sales, cooking, and cleanup, to ensure quality Morgado has specially trained crews at each event that set up an average of five fire-blackened 10-foot-long portable barbecue troughs, fill them with mesquite charcoal, and cook fresh chicken on special racks that huli about 32 halves at a time.

Huli-Huli Chicken stands sell only chicken, with prices typically $3.50 per half. On an average day, a group will sell from 3,000 to 6,000 halves, but in 1981, for an Iolani School benefit, 46,386 halves were cooked in less than 9 hours, a feat once found in the Guinness Book of World Records.

HOW TO FIND A HULI STAND

This low-key, Hawaiian-style system works great for local charities and aficionados like Koshi, but until recently Hawaii visitors relied mostly on luck to find a barbecue. Now you can find Huli-Huli locations nearly any weekend by calling Pacific Poultry at [phone] between 7 A.M. and 1 P.M. weekdays.

Chicken barbecues are scheduled regularly on Oahu, less frequently on other islands. Even if you miss out on the chicken, you can find a bottle of the sauce at any major supermarket (about $2.75 for a 24-ounce bottle) in Hawaii, and a few specialty stores on the mainland

Huli Huli Chicken

This popular Hawaiian barbequed chicken is often sold at fundraisers in Hawaii. Locals in Hawaii scan the newspaper on weekends looking for Huli Huli benefits. The barbeque sauce for this dish is flavored with pineapple juice, soy sauce, sherry, ginger, and garlic.

Ingredients:

3 chickens, cut in half

1/4 cup catsup

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup chicken broth

1/3 cup sherry or white wine

1/4 cup frozen pineapple juice concentrate.

1 garlic clove, minced

1/2 inch piece of ginger root, finely minced

Two drops of worcestershire sauce

Instructions:

Mix all ingredients except chicken, and brush over chicken pieces. Cook chicken on an grill undil done, will will typically take about 40 minutes. Brush chicken with sauce repeatedly during the cooking period.

Answer 3

If you mean the stuff with pineapple in it, and a sweet sauce along with the chicken, this comes from the 1950's style cuisine.  Kraft used to have recipes on TV back in the 50's where a cook made this type of recipe. Usually meat or chicken with a sweet sauce was typical. My Mom made Hawaiian chicken with canned pineapple chunks and bits of red bell pepper along with chicken pieces. It was actually pretty good.

Answer 4

I'm assuming you are referring to all the roosters on Kauai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauai

Answer 5

you mean chicks that who-la.