Beef luau

After reading a lot of luau and lau lau posts on the Aloha Instant Pot Facebook group, it was time to try beef luau tonight. I used this recipe. It didn't specify how much taro leaf to use so I used 2 lbs (each bag at Safeway is 1 lb). I cut down the coconut milk to one can. Sides of lomi salmon, poke, and poi, and everyone was happy!

The one drawback was that pressure cooking the luau leaf in two batches then pressure cooking the beef meant it took almost 2 hours from start to finish. Probably next time it would be better to just blanch the taro leaf first on the stove then throw it all together for maybe 45 minutes.

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