08/22/2026
Maui's Boat Snack Taco 🌮 🌊 🏝️
Inspired by the movie Moana, when i heard "boat snack" i think this is what he meant, or at least what i would've wanted. Sorry Hei-Hei 👀
Sweet chili crispy tenders, picked cabbage, pineapple slaw, on a fried blue corn tortilla. Can't forget the bugle beak.
Is this fit for a Demi-God? Lemme know 👇🏻
Ingredients
Chicken
* 1½–2 lbs chicken tenders
* Spanglish Asadero Golden garlic seasoning
* Chicken breading
* Frank’s RedHot Sweet Chili Sauce
* Frying oil
Pineapple-Avocado Salsa
* 1½ cups diced pineapple
* ½ red onion, diced
* 1 avocado, diced
* Salt
Pickled Cabbage
* 2 cups shredded red cabbage
* ½ cup apple cider vinegar
* ½ cup water
* 1 tbsp sugar
* 1½ tsp salt
Tacos & Toppings
* 6–8 blue corn tortillas
* Tri-color tortilla strips
* Sliced radishes
* Black beans
* Bugles
Directions
1. Pickle the cabbage.
Mix vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Add the cabbage and let sit for at least 30 minutes. Drain before serving.
2. Griddle the salsa.
Cook the diced pineapple and red onion directly on the Blackstone until caramelized. Remove from the heat, cool slightly and mix with diced avocado and a pinch of salt.
3. Fry the chicken.
Place a pan of frying oil directly on the Blackstone and heat to 350°F. Season and bread the chicken tenders, then fry until golden brown and 165°F internally.
4. Sauce the chicken.
Immediately toss the hot fried tenders in sweet chili sauce until completely coated.
5. Fry the tortillas.
Add oil directly to the Blackstone and fry the blue corn tortillas on both sides until crispy but still flexible. Fold into taco shells while warm.
6. Build the tacos.
Fill each shell with pickled cabbage, pineapple-avocado salsa and a sweet chili chicken tender.
7. Make Hei Hei.
Add tortilla strips for his feathers, radish slices with black beans for his eyes, and stick a Bugle into the chicken for his beak.
8. Serve.
Pile them onto a platter with extra tortilla strips and pickled cabbage for that colorful, chaotic Hei Hei look. 🌊🐓
