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Building Confidence in the Kitchen: Flavors of Aloha

Alana Kysar will lead a virtual cooking demonstration, featuring recipes from her cookbook "Aloha Kitchen: Flavors from Hawai'i."

Prepare the ingredients below and cook along with Alana to bring the flavors of aloha into your home! During the program, Alana will discuss how she developed this recipe and teach kitchen skills to make the recipes in her cookbook more approachable. 

Registration via Zoom is required. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the session. 

January 22nd recipe: Shoyu Chicken (Pg. 103) from "Aloha Kitchen: Flavors from Hawai'i" 

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup soy sauce (shoyu) 
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
• One 2-inch piece fresh ginger peeled and thinly sliced
• 2 or 3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
• 2 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
• 1/2 Maui onion, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch wedges
• 2 or 3 green onions, white and green parts, cut into 2-inch pieces
• 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch 
• 3 cups steamed rice, for serving 

About the author: Born and raised in Hawai’i, Alana Kysar grew up in a kitchen inspired by the local cuisine and her Japanese-American heritage. Cooking and sharing beautifully curated experiences with family and friends is her love language. After living in California for 10+ years, she returned to her island home of Maui at the beginning of 2022 with her fiancé. She is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and photographer working from her home studio in Kula, Maui.

This event is supported by the Network of the National Library of Medicine and the All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program, or All of Us for short, is a research program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). All of Us is building one of the largest and most diverse health databases of its kind. Researchers are already using this data to learn more about why people get sick or stay healthy, and what makes each of us unique. All of Us is seeking to enroll one million or more people from across the U.S. to advance medical research. People who join All of Us share information about their health, habits, and what it’s like where they live. 

To learn more about All of Us, visit joinallofus.org. 

This project/event is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Cooperative Agreement Number U24LM014070 with the University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System.

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