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Potato salad and mac salad in one bowl — the plate lunch overachiever.
Main ingredient: potato
Pairs well with: katsu, huli huli chicken, rice
HB-5842 · Hand-built original
Hawaii's noodle soup: a light dashi broth with noodles, char siu, Spam and greens.
Main ingredient: noodles
Pairs well with: musubi, manapua, pickles
HB-5866 · Hand-built original
Salmon poke with avocado and lime — rich fish, bright dressing.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: rice, seaweed salad, edamame
HB-5832 · Hand-built original
Cubed sashimi-grade salmon seasoned with brown sugar and hot sauce, served over lightly mashed avocado with a lemon and champagne vinegar dressing, sour cream and dill.
Main ingredient: salmon
HB-8135 · Hand-built original
Shoyu-sesame salmon poke over sushi rice with avocado and Persian cucumbers quick-marinated in rice wine vinegar and chili crisp.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18553 · Hand-built original
Salmon marinated in shoyu, ponzu and ginger, chilled, served over room-temperature sushi rice with cucumber, avocado, nori, homemade tenkasu crunch and spicy mayo.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18552 · Hand-built original
Sashimi-grade salmon in a soy, sriracha, maple, garlic and ginger sauce over rice with edamame, greens and avocado, the rest of the sauce served alongside.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18551 · Hand-built original
Lettuce leaves dressed with a soy, mirin and citrus ponzu, topped with salmon, avocado, pickled cucumber and scallion, crushed wasabi peas and furikake.
Main ingredient: salmon
HB-8136 · Hand-built original
Watermelon pieces marinate for hours in a sesame, soy, tahini and lime dressing, then sear briefly until lightly caramelised. The reduced marinade becomes the sauce, with scallions and cilantro on top.
Main ingredient: watermelon
HB-8204 · Hand-built original
Snow-fine ice under stripes of syrup and a condensed-milk 'snow cap'.
Main ingredient: ice
Pairs well with: fruit, mochi, snacks
HB-5840 · Hand-built original
Shoyu Ahi Poke Recipe - a traditional Hawaiian ahi poke bowl recipe made with sashimi grade ahi tuna, sweet onions, soy sauce, sesame oil, macadamia nuts, and scallions. This amazing recipe from Tutu's Aloha kitchen comes together so quickly and makes you feel like you've been transported directly to Hawaii! Best served with steamed short-grain rice or on its own.
Main ingredient: rice
HB-2061 · Hand-built original
Shoyu-marinated ahi tuna and sweet onion over rice with watermelon radish, lettuce, daikon sprouts and edamame, finished with salted macadamia inamona.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18545 · Hand-built original
Ahi tuna in a shoyu, sesame and seasoned rice vinegar dressing over white rice with lettuce, cucumber, avocado, nectarine and seaweed salad.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18546 · Hand-built original
Chicken braised in soy, brown sugar and ginger until it is burnished and falling tender.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: rice, macaroni salad, steamed vegetables
HB-5823 · Hand-built original
A whole cut-up chicken simmers in a Hawaiian-style soy sauce braise sweetened with brown sugar and sharpened with ginger, garlic, oregano and two kinds of pepper heat. The sauce is reduced and thickened with cornstarch, and sliced green onions finish the dish.
Main ingredient: chicken
HB-8241 · Hand-built original
Chicken breasts slow cooked with pineapple tidbits and sliced onion in a sauce of BBQ sauce, reserved pineapple juice, brown sugar, soy sauce and garlic powder. The chicken is shredded and served saucy.
Main ingredient: chicken
HB-8304 · Hand-built original
Frozen meatballs slow cooked with pineapple chunks in a huli huli style sauce of pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, ketchup, ginger and garlic. A cornstarch slurry thickens the glossy sauce in the last twenty minutes.
Main ingredient: meatballs
HB-8306 · Hand-built original
Slow Cooker Kalua Pork is a Hawaiian main course built around pork. It takes 910 min in total and serves 8. It pairs well with applesauce and roasted sweet potatoes.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-2098 · Hand-built original
A whole pork butt roast rubbed with coarse Hawaiian sea salt and liquid smoke, then slow cooked for up to twenty hours. The pork is shredded and returned to its own juices, Kalua style.
Main ingredient: pork
HB-8309 · Hand-built original
A whole pork butt rubbed with salt, liquid smoke and soy sauce and cooked for 18 hours until it shreds, piled into Hawaiian rolls under a cabbage and sesame slaw.
Main ingredient: pork
HB-8324 · Hand-built original
Seared Spam in a sake-soy glaze over rice with sweet scrambled eggs and a seaweed garnish.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: miso soup, seaweed salad, pickled ginger, steamed rice
HB-18581 · Hand-built original
Breakfast-of-champions fried rice with crisped Spam, egg and peas.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: macaroni salad, pickles, miso soup
HB-5828 · Hand-built original
Diced Spam fried until golden with onion, peas and carrots, scrambled eggs and cooked rice, seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil.
Main ingredient: spam
HB-8383 · Hand-built original
Crisped Spam over rice under a mushroom-onion gravy with a sunny-side-up egg.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: macaroni salad, steamed rice, miso soup, kimchi
HB-18574 · Hand-built original
Rectangles of sushi rice sprinkled with furikake and topped with Spam glazed in soy sauce, brown sugar and mirin, each wrapped in a strip of nori.
Main ingredient: rice
HB-10443 · Hand-built original
Griddled Spam glazed sweet-salty, pressed onto rice and wrapped in nori — Hawaii's convenience-store icon.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: pickles, miso soup, fruit
HB-5827 · Hand-built original
Soy-mirin glazed Spam over rice with a fried egg, mayonnaise and furikake.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: miso soup, seaweed salad, pickled ginger, macaroni salad
HB-18582 · Hand-built original
Teriyaki Spam and egg over vinegar-seasoned rice with nori and furikake.
Main ingredient: spam
Pairs well with: miso soup, seaweed salad, pickled ginger, steamed rice
HB-18583 · Hand-built original
Ahi folded through chilli mayonnaise — the spicy poke of a thousand lunch counters.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: rice, seaweed salad, cucumber salad
HB-5831 · Hand-built original
Tuna marinated in soy, rice vinegar and sambal oelek, its marinade boiled down and drizzled back over seasoned sushi rice bowls with avocado and a Sriracha mayo drizzle.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18550 · Hand-built original
Yellowfin tuna folded through a Kewpie mayo sauce with Sriracha, mirin and togarashi, with furikake and scallions, served over cooled Japanese rice.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18548 · Hand-built original
A party-size spicy ahi poke: tuna, cucumber, green onion and tobiko in a Kewpie-Sriracha mayo, spread over jasmine rice in a casserole dish under furikake.
Main ingredient: tuna
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, edamame, miso soup
HB-18549 · Hand-built original
Squid simmered with taro leaves in coconut milk — an old luau dish, gentle and rich.
Main ingredient: squid
Pairs well with: rice, kalua pork, lomi salmon
HB-5837 · Hand-built original
Day-old rice is stir-fried in a hot wok with diced SPAM, corn, eggs and garlic, then tossed with a Sriracha and soy sauce mixture and finished with green onions.
Main ingredient: spam
HB-8447 · Hand-built original
Tender octopus poke with sesame and ginger — chewy in the best way.
Main ingredient: octopus
Pairs well with: rice, seaweed salad, beer snacks
HB-5834 · Hand-built original
Octopus with mango, radish, cucumber and edamame over basmati rice in a soy-sesame dressing, finished with black sesame seeds.
Main ingredient: octopus
Pairs well with: sushi rice, seaweed salad, miso soup, edamame
HB-18554 · Hand-built original
Soy-and-vinegar marinated octopus with wakame over rice, topped with avocado, spring onion and ginger.
Main ingredient: octopus
Pairs well with: sushi rice, miso soup, seaweed salad, pickled ginger
HB-18555 · Hand-built original
Chilled octopus with limu seaweed, sweet onion and chili in a shoyu-sesame dressing with inamona, served over warm rice.
Main ingredient: octopus
Pairs well with: steamed rice, taro chips, miso soup, seaweed salad
HB-18556 · Hand-built original
Skewered beef strips in teriyaki marinade, grilled at every island fundraiser.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: rice, macaroni salad, pickles
HB-5871 · Hand-built original
A burger with a grilled pineapple ring and teriyaki glaze — the island diner special.
Main ingredient: beef patty
Pairs well with: fries, macaroni salad, coleslaw
HB-5845 · Hand-built original
A vegetarian poke of tofu with shoyu, sesame, ginger and cucumber.
Main ingredient: tofu
Pairs well with: rice, seaweed salad, edamame
HB-5833 · Hand-built original
Crisp chili-glazed tofu over rice with pickled cucumber, avocado and nori, finished with sriracha mayo.
Main ingredient: tofu
Pairs well with: sushi rice, miso soup, seaweed salad, pickled cucumber
HB-18557 · Hand-built original
Crisp tofu in a spicy garlic-gochugaru glaze over rice with cabbage, edamame and avocado under a miso dressing.
Main ingredient: tofu
Pairs well with: sushi rice, miso soup, edamame, seaweed salad
HB-18558 · Hand-built original
Raw sashimi-grade ahi tuna cubes tossed with soy sauce, sesame oil, chile, green onions, Maui onion and ginger, then chilled before serving.
Main ingredient: tuna
HB-7179 · Hand-built original
Miso-marinated watermelon, pan-cooked until savory, over rice with blanched carrot, radish, edamame, avocado and pickled ginger.
Main ingredient: watermelon
Pairs well with: sushi rice, miso soup, seaweed salad, edamame
HB-18562 · Hand-built original
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