Around a month ago a mix-up in our production department led to the development of one of our most flavorful Macadamia Oils. Our flavored oils are produced in 60 gallon quantities. This is a lot of oil! We begin with our Hawaii’s Gold™ Macadamia Oil, and then depending on the flavor we're making, we then add concentrated natural extracts to make our Pele's Fire™, Garlic Isle™, and Kauai Herb™. Well on this lucky day, our production assistant had made a 60 gallon barrel of Garlic Isle™ Macadamia Oil. Because the extract used doesn't add any color to our pure oil, she forgot that it was already garlic flavored, and then proceeded to make what she thought was going to be Pele's Fire™. She soon realized that she had actually added our chile extract to the already flavored Garlic Isle™. After several moments of what I can only imagine to be something like panic, she brought this up to Barbara Gray, our Vice-President. The first thing Barbara decided to do was laugh, and then of course taste it! It didn't take long for our whole factory to realize that this was a really yummy combination. Since then we have all been trying it out on popcorn, chicken, in stir-fries and marinades, and any other concept our creative employees can dream up. The bakery next door added it to their already delicious corn bread muffins. Needless to say those dissappeared rather quickly.
This flavorful combo isn't all together new however. Our President and un-official deep-fry expert, Matthew Papania, has been using this combination every year to make his famous (here in Hawaii) deep fried turkeys at Thanksgiving. Yes, not only do all the employees get a turkey to bring home for Thanksgiving, but it's already deliciously cooked! He injects 5 parts of what is now Haleiwa Heat™ to 1 part Aloha Shoyu (his preferred brand of soy sauce) and one part of equally mixed salt, pepper, and paprika into the turkeys themselves. He then applies a dry rub of the salt, pepper, paprika mixture to the outside of the turkey and immerses it into a cauldron of simmering Hawaii's Gold™ Macadamia Oil. For his purposes, he uses 15 gallons, but then he makes about 20 to 30 turkeys in one day. He recommends using a 12-14 lb. turkey because this way it's easier to cook it thoroughly without burning the outside. It only takes about 35 to 40 minutes to cook all the way through. (Gone are the days of waking up early Thanksgiving morning to put the turkey in the oven!) Seriously, I've been craving it since last Thanksgiving. I'm sure that being as pregnant and hungry as I am, it would be hard to share it at all. :-)
So, of course, it would only follow that we would add this flavor to our already popular Macadamia Oils. We are selling it for an introductory price of $5 for the 5 oz. and $8 for the 12.7 oz. We would encourage all of our culinary challenged (like me) customers to give it a try because it makes flavoring your foods so easy and delicious! Please feel free to share your ideas or recipes with us here on our blog. We love hearing from our customers and get some of our best ideas that way. Happy Cooking!!
