We don’t know about you, but we are still SO glad that ‘Ohana is back at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort.

Is any Disney World restaurant more iconic than ‘Ohana? And although we gasped when the menu first appeared sans Noodles, we let out a sigh of relief when Disney World confirmed the Noodles would be returning. (Don’t get us started on this whole noods shortage RN! ‘Ohana keepin’ us on our noodle-toes!) SO, what if you can’t get to ‘Ohana anytime soon but you’re craving those Noods or that Bread Pudding or any of the other yummy dishes you can’t get anywhere else? WE. GOT. YO. BACK. You just need to provide some cooking skillz.

We’ve got ALL the recipes you need to create your own ‘Ohana meal at home! And we’re sure that by the time you’ve gorged yourself on all this food, you’ll feel as stuffed if you had visited ‘Ohana for real! Note that not all of these recipes are on the current menu, but still equate to a lot of yummy food. You WON’T find recipes on here for the grilled meats or potstickers. We worked with the recipes that we had readily available to us. TBH, we recommend just grabbing some frozen potstickers from your grocery store and cooking them up. Many stores sell a mild chili garlic sauce you can toss them in for a pretty nice match.

Mai Tai

If you’re craving a little boozy tropical beverage to start your meal with, the ‘Ohana Mai Tai is JUST what you need. And if you’re feeling a little extra, you can even serve it up Lapu Lapu style by cutting out a pineapple and pour the drink into the empty shell!

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Myers Dark Rum
• 2 ounces orange juice
• 2 ounces pineapple juice
• 2 ounces sour mix
• Dash lime juice
• Dash Orgeat syrup (a sweet syrup made from almonds, sugar, and rose water or orange flower water. Most liquor stores sell it)

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients.
2. Serve in a chilled glass (or hollowed-out pineapple) with pick-lime/cherry.

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Lilikoi Salad

For starters, you’ll want the Lilikoi Salad, which has a yummy passionfruit dressing. The salad at ‘Ohana has seen a few variations over the years, with the current salad dressed in a citrus vinaigrette. Many fans still mourn the loss of the honey-lime salad dressing here. But the Lilikoi (AKA passion fruit) dressing served here for a number of years is just tropical enough to make this stand out.

Dressing Ingredients

• 3 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
• 1/2 small shallot
• 1 small garlic clove
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon honey
• Pinch of salt
• 3/4 cup canola oil
• 1/3 cup POG juice (Passion fruit, Orange & Guava juices in equal parts)
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley

Dressing Directions

1. Purée the first eight ingredients in a blender.
2. Gradually blend in the oil, then POG juice and parsley

Salad Ingredients

• 6 ounces lettuce (mixed greens)
• 3 ounces Lilikoi dressing
• 2 ounces diced papaya
• 2 ounces Mandarin oranges

Salad Directions

1. Combine all ingredients.
2. Pour salad dressing over and mix well.

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Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

OK this is a hot take — we love these potatoes. Yeah Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes are typically really good (“cheese” and “potatoes” are in the name, so dead giveaway, right?), but these were also the predecessor to the now-adored teriyaki noodles at ‘Ohana. We love the noods. We love the potatoes. We love the potatoes SO much, in fact, we’re sharing an old recipe on how to make them! Now you can have cheesy potatoes AND NOODLES in perfect harmony. SCORE.

Ingredients

• 1 pound potatoes
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, grated
• 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese, grated
• 1/4 cup sweet onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Directions

1. Place a single layer of potato slices and onion in a buttered shallow dish.
2. Sprinkle with some of the cheeses and salt and pepper.
3. Repeat layers and then pour cream over the potatoes.
4. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and then let stand 5 minutes.

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Stir Fried Noodles

Okay, now it’s time to recreate those Noodles that we love so much. Honestly, we could just eat our weight in these! They’re simple but DELICIOUS. This recipe courtesy of allears.net has loads of flavor to go with your noods.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 teaspoon each, puréed: garlic and ginger
• 1/4 cup each, julienned: red pepper and pineapple
• 2 cups cooked udon noodles
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon chopped roasted peanuts

Peanut sauce

• 2 cloves garlic, peeled
• 2-inch piece ginger, peeled
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup each: soy sauce, sugar, and water
• 1/8 cup diced Spanish (red) onion
• 1 tablespoon chopped peanuts

Directions

1. For sauce, put ingredients in pan. Bring to boil, stirring. Turn heat to simmer, stirring occasionally. Simmer 10 minutes. Remove from heat, pour in blender. Pulse until smooth.

2. For noodles, heat canola oil in wok. Add garlic, ginger, red pepper, and pineapple. Stir-fry until red peppers are tender but still firm. Season with salt and pepper. Add noodles. Stir-fry until noodles are heated. Add 1/2 cup peanut sauce to glaze ingredients. Garnish with nuts.

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Honey-Coriander Chicken Wings

Who’s ready for some protein? One of our favorite meats to nom on at ‘Ohana is the Honey-Coriander Chicken Wings. Seriously, they are just SO good, and we don’t care how sticky they make our fingers!

Coriander Chicken Wings Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon coarse salt
• 2 tablespoons paprika
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 4 tablespoons canola oil
• 4 pounds chicken wings or drumettes, patted dry

Honey Sauce Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 tablespoon ground coriander
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup honey
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch

Coriander Chicken Wings Directions

1. Preheat oven to 475°F, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Line two rimmed baking sheets with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Combine all ingredients except chicken in a large glass bowl; stir to combine. Add chicken and toss to coat.
3. Divide the chicken in a single layer between prepared baking sheets and bake until browned and completely cooked through, about 35 minutes, rotating baking sheets on racks and turning chicken halfway through cooking.

Honey Sauce Directions

1. While wings are baking, combine ingredients in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally, until liquid thickens and reduces to a syrup, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool for 10 minutes.
2. Brush or toss baked chicken with wing sauce to coat. Serve with remaining wing sauce on the side or with preferred dipping sauce.

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Bread Pudding

Perhaps the most iconic food at ‘Ohana is the Bread Pudding, which is smothered in a Bananas Foster Sauce that just takes it to the next level. But you can make it at home and take our word for it — this is one of our favorite recipes to recreate! It’s a labor of love but, if you set aside a day to make it, you will be handsomely rewarded.

Coconut Mixture Filling Ingredients

• 1 cup crushed pineapple
• 1 cup unsweetened coconut
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch

Coconut Mixture Filling Directions (Make this first)

1. Combine the pineapple and coconut in a bowl.
2. Combine the sugar and cornstarch into a separate bowl.
3. Mix the sugar and cornstarch well.
4. Add the sugar and cornstarch mixture into the pineapple and coconut mixture and mix well.
5. Refrigerate for one hour.

Pineapple Breakfast Bread Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cup water
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tablespoon shortening
• 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• 1 tablespoon instant yeast
• 4 1/2 cup high gluten flour

Pineapple Breakfast Bread Directions

1. Combine the egg yolk and water.
2. Add shortening, followed by salt and sugar.
3. Add yeast.
4. Add flour and use a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment to mix until dough picks up on the hook and the sides of the mixing bowl are clean.
5. Leave the dough to rise until it’s doubled in size.
6. Roll out dough onto a floured surface until it is about half an inch thick.
7. Spread the pineapple/coconut mixture (after it has been in the refrigerator for at least an hour) over the top of the dough.
8. Fold the dough onto itself, capturing the pineapple and coconut mixture inside.
9. Cut dough into roughly equal pieces with a pizza cutter.
10. Take cut pieces and spread them evenly into a greased 9×13 inch pan.
11. Let dough pieces rise in a warm oven (110 degrees F) – until it rises about halfway up the pan.
12. Bake at 325 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
13. Let bread cool, and then cut it into pieces again.
    

    Breakfast Bread

Bread Pudding Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 3 cups whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 8 cups french or ‘Ohana breakfast bread (one batch of the bread)

Bread Pudding Directions

1. In a bowl mix eggs, milk, salt, sugar, and nutmeg. Set aside.
2.  Cut bread into medium pieces, place on cookie sheet pan put in a 350-degree oven.
3. Bake bread until lightly toasted, about 15 minutes. Remove bread and place in egg and milk mixture.
4. Place mixture in a greased 10-inch cake pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
5. Let stand 5 minutes, serve hot with ice cream.

Sauce Ingredients

• 4 ounces sugar
• 4 ounces brown sugar
• 4 ounces corn syrup
• 4 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup spiced rum
• 1 cup banana slices

Sauce Directions

1. Combine sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, and half of the heavy cream in a large pan. Bring to a boil and slowly add remaining heavy cream keeping mixture at a steady boil.
2. Add spiced rum and flambe.
3. Candy will brown slightly; cook 3 minutes until candy forms into a firm ball in cold water. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
4. Add sliced bananas and serve warm over bread pudding.

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We hope you’ve been inspired to create all your favorite ‘Ohana recipes at home. Pop a steak and some shrimp on the grill and toss a few frozen potstickers in a frying pan and you have a SOLID meal. Probably should get some helpers to eat it all. We’d love to hear about your ‘Ohana meals in the comments. And we’ll keep sharing Disney recipes, so stay tuned!

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