Don't Wait Until Taco Tuesday To Make These Sweet Chili Chicken Tacos

They're crispy, super flavorful and all around bangin'.

People often ask us how we come up with our recipes. More often than not, it's based on season. NOW is obviously the time to be drinking piña-pple coladas, for example. And sometimes it's inexplicable. How our deputy editor continues to come up with amazingly outrageous dishes like crack chicken and Oreogasm ice cream is still beyond me. Time of the year and weird premonitions aside, however, a lot of our inspiration comes from Pinterest.

Jonathan Boulton

Food pins are usually indicative of what the universe is craving most, which is how we discovered that people want their bang bang tacos. Copycat bang bang shrimp taco recipes are HUGE. I'm not sure which restaurant came up with the bang bang formula first—Cheesecake Factory or Bonefish Grill—but its origin is irrelevant. At either place, you'll get crispy fried shrimp tossed in a creamy, sweet Asian aioli.

Jonathan Boulton

As much as we love shrimp, we gave the bang bang taco treatment to chicken instead.There's always an extra pack or three of boneless, skinless breasts in our test kitchen. Plus, the world will never have enough chicken recipes. The protein is almost besides the point though. For these tacos, it's all about the sauce. Sweet chili sauce, rice wine vinegar and lime juice transform mayonnaise into a sweet and tangy concoction we wanted to drink by the spoonful. Just about anything would taste amazing with a drizzle of the stuff.

You don't need to turn your bang bang chicken into tacos, but why wouldn't you? Every night is taco night in our book. Tacos are just as satisfying on Friday as they are on Tuesday, we say.

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