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:
Bacon Pineapple BBQ Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts (skinless, boneless)
- 1 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 cup pineapple diced
- 6 strips bacon cooked and diced
- ¼ red onion sliced (about ¼ cup) + extra
- 1 cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 green onions diced
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
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It smelled amazing but was so bland.
You can add more BBQ sauce for flavor.
Do you drain pineapples?
Yes! Or, use fresh pineapple.
lOOKS SO GOOD. CAN'T WAIT TO TRY IT.
You won't regret it! 🙂 Enjoy! 🙂
What do you serve as a side with this?
Here are some ideas:
1) Angel hair pasta
2) Rice
3) Cauliflower rice
4) Roasted asparagus, Brussels sprouts, or broccoli
5) Zucchini noodles or cooked spaghetti squash.
This recipe came out delicious and was super easy! I didn't change anything and leftover were just as good! Definitely a keeper!
I am happy to hear that! Thank you for taking the time to share such a kind comment and the 5-star review! 🙂
We make with boneless pork chops instead of chicken. Very good. We deemed it a keeper.
Pamela, this is a great recipe to use with pork chops! Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the comment and the 5-star review! 🙂
Pretty yummy
Allison, I am very happy you liked this recipe! 🙂
I'm wondering what you recommend for sides with this meal?
Try this baked asparagus with Gruyere cheese, garlic, and bacon or these green beans with pine nuts.
Were having it with rice tonite. But mashed potatoes would be delicious as well!
Yes, either rice or mashed potatoes sound delicious as a side dish!
Just made this for the second time! We all love it 🙂 thanks for the recipe!
Robin, so glad you liked it! 🙂
Recipe should specify to use small, thin chicken breasts!
Such a different recipe that turned out so good! I'm glad I read the other comments before cooking. I just used 2 chicken breasts & sliced them in half to make them thinner & they were cooked perfectly in 25 minutes! I also used sweet onions instead.. My husband approved so I will be making again!
It was good but I would tweak some things next time. Definitely need to cut the breasts in had to make thinner. I would tray marinating the chicken with some salt pepper garlic powder and maybe some bbq sauce and the pineapple juice. I will salt and pepper before I add all the toppings and I would cook halfway then add the cheese so it’s still bubbly and gooey mine was more brown and slid off the chicken when you cut into it. But great recipe will be trying again with above changes thanks