25 buried recipes

Oven kalua pork: a four-ingredient Hawaiian luau classic that turns pork butt into smoky, salty, fall-apart shreds without a buried imu pit. Liquid smoke, Hawaiian sea salt, water, and time do the work.

New Orleans-style French Market beignets cut into squares, deep-fried golden, and buried in powdered sugar. Make-ahead yeast dough that chills overnight and improves over a week in the fridge.

Cantonese salt-baked chicken buried in six pounds of blazing rock salt with ginger, garlic, and scallion stuffing. Hakka-style whole chicken technique that gives you impossibly juicy meat and silky skin.

Salt-smothered chicken buried in a bed of red-hot rock salt with ginger, tangerine peel, and Szechuan peppercorn marinade sealed in the cavity. An ancient Cantonese technique that steams the bird to silken tenderness.

A great healthy pizza for a delicious lunch or dinner.

Without buns and cheese, this juicy and delicious paleo Australian hamburger will satisfy your craving without giving any empty calories.

A warmly spiced sheet cake made with sourdough starter, homemade burnt sugar syrup, golden raisins, and chopped nuts. Cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg fill every bite with cozy autumn flavor.

The Australian hamburger with the lot: a beef patty stacked with a fried egg, bacon, cheese, grilled pineapple, and the all-important slice of pickled beetroot, plus caramelized onions and barbecue sauce on a toasted bun.

Anchovies seem to have a natural affinity with veal - consider ossi buci, for instance, those not in the know usually cannot pick the presence of anchovies in this pot-roasted dish, but they do rave about the flavour.