Bacon Pineapple BBQ Chicken with Red Onions and Mozzarella Cheese – a delicious way to cook chicken breasts and keep them moist, flavorful and far from boring!
If you’re looking for an easy pineapple chicken recipe or Hawaiian BBQ style chicken – this recipe is a perfect choice to try! All you have to do is throw 4 chicken breasts into a medium size casserole dish, top it with BBQ sauce, then add diced pineapple, cooked bacon, red onions, and shredded Mozzarella cheese. Bake it uncovered in the oven for about 30 minutes, and your dinner is ready! Your bacon pineapple BBQ chicken will be smothered in a lot of goodness and, therefore, will remain moist and tender which is what we want for chicken breasts.
The result tastes so good! and, no wonder, chicken and pineapple combination is always good, especially when the BBQ sauce is involved. The chicken will look pretty good too, with lots of colors:
This is just like grilled Hawaiian BBQ chicken, but without the need to turn on the grill.
How do you make bacon pineapple BBQ chicken?
Start by adding chicken breasts to the baking dish. It’s not really necessary to season the chicken breasts with salt or pepper, as we are about to pile up a whole bunch of flavorful ingredients on top.
Next, top with about 1 cup of BBQ sauce, to cover all chicken breasts. Use more BBQ sauce if needed.
Then, top your chicken with diced pineapple (from the can):
Top with diced, cooked bacon:
Add sliced red onion:
Top with mozzarella cheese:
Bake your pineapple BBQ chicken for 25-30 minutes until the chicken is completely cooked and no longer pink in the center.
Top with diced green onions, and serve:
This easy pineapple chicken recipe is a perfect addition to your weekly menu. It's just like Hawaiian BBQ style chicken but without the need to turn on the grill. Bake these chicken breasts smothered with BBQ Sauce, pineapple, bacon, red onions, and Mozzarella cheese in the oven for 30 minutes, and your dinner is ready!
- 4 chicken breasts
- 1 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 cup pineapple diced
- 6 strips bacon cooked and diced
- 1/4 red onion sliced (about 1/4 cup) + extra
- 1 cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 green onions diced
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Add chicken breasts to the casserole dish. Using a spoon, brush chicken breasts with BBQ sauce.
- Top with diced pineapple.
- Add chopped cooked bacon on top of the chicken.
- Top with sliced red onion.
- Top with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, uncovered, until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the center. Broil for the last 4 minutes if desired.
- To serve, top chicken with a small amount of extra diced pineapple, a little bit of remaining sliced red onion, and diced green onions.
Prepared this for dinner this evening and my husband exclaimed “this is GOOD!” after his first bite! He said it was so flavorful, and asked if I would make it again, so we’re going to add it to the rotation!
Thank you for the recipe that we can both enjoy, moist and delicious!
I will be attempting this recipe tomorrow. I love pineapple, so am quite sure it will a hit. Thank you for sharing.
What side do you have with this recipe?
I think this will be great with roasted broccoli, asparagus, or green beans.
Putting this on the menu for tomorrow! Looks yummy but I will have to do a 1/2 recipe as we are a senior family of just 2. Love recipes that use items I already have on hand!!
I am glad you’re trying this recipe. Enjoy! 🙂
Love the recipe and I cooked it as presented.
It’s become a huge favorite around our house
and to be honest, I’m not a big fan of cooked
pineapple! But this? Different story!
Thank You!!!!
Michael, you are very welcome! So glad you tried this recipe, enjoyed it and shared such a positive comment! 🙂
This was delicious even though I didnt have the bacon on hand(didn’t even miss it). Instead I finely sliced some red pepper and zuchinni and layed it on the bottom of the baking dish before layering the rest of the ingredients. I also did not have mozza but had jalapeno jack cheese so used that. It was a perfect one dish meal! Thank you for the recipe!
You are very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for sharing the changes you made. Using red pepper and zucchini sounds delicious!
I am not a chief but a pretty darn good cook; I have not tried this, but it looks like a great combination. The BBQ sauce is the secret to success. Thank you.
I am glad you liked this recipe – enjoy!
I absolutely love this recipe!! I’ve made it several times and am adding it to my menu plan for the next week! It’s even a hit with my husband who isn’t a fan of pineapple with savory foods!!
Thank you, Jessica! So happy to hear you loved this recipe. Your comment made my day!