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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 - use thinly sliced chicken breasts)
- 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 the oven to 375 F. Use thinly sliced chicken breasts
- 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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My lady has surgery on her foot so I’m the cook and bottle washer so I’m going to have a go with the barbecue chicken I’ll let you know how it turns out x
Enjoy!
Can I prepare the chicken with all that goes on it in advance and cook it later?
You can try, but I am afraid the BBQ sauce, if it's too runny, will run along the sides of the chicken.
The BBQ sauce seems really red, here in NZ our BBQ sauce is more brown as it is a mix of tomato sauce and worchester sauce.
Do you have a recipe for the red BBQ sauce, or is it equivalent to our Tomato sauce?
I don't have the recipe for BBQ sauce on my site, but here is a good recipe for homemade BBQ sauce: https://www.chef-in-training.com/2016/06/best-ever-homemade-bbq-sauce/
Made this dish tonight for my family and it was delicious! I love easy recipes like this! Tks
I am glad you liked it.
This dish was used as a healthy alternative to BBQ chicken pizza which my family loves. We are trying to cut back on our carbs and this was perfect! We didn’t miss the bread at all. Very flavorful! I served this with coleslaw and baked sweet potato. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! I am so glad your family enjoyed it! Yes, this is a great alternative to BBQ chicken pizza. Great idea to serve this with coleslaw and baked sweet potato.
I've made this twice. The entire family loves this dish!
Thank you, Kelly! So glad you've made this twice and that the family likes this dish! 🙂
Only have cheddar cheese would that work?
I made this last night with cheddar, because I didn't have any mozzarella, and it was good.
Thank you! Glad to know you liked it!
Cheddar will work, too!
Fantastyczne jedzenie !!! Fabalous dish!!!
Thank you!
What BBQ sauce do you recommend using?
I think I used STUBB's BBQ sauce with this recipe.
Just made this, it is am amazing dish! I made Brown rice as a side dish.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it! Brown rice is a great idea for a side dish!
Do you cook the bacon first? Sounds delicious!
Yes.
This looks delicious... and just as important, it looks easy! Can you tell me what side dish you would serve with this? Is it something that would be good on top of brown rice? I just can't think in my head if rice and bbq sauce go well together.
Thanks!
We made sweet potatoes, they pair well with bbq sauce.
Made this dish last night, so simple and so good. My daughter loved the chicken.
Just made this tonight...followed the directions exactly, minus the green onion because we didn’t have any on hand. Baked for exactly 25 minutes then pulled and covered with foil for 5 minutes while my sides finished up. Husband loved the flavor combinations and I’ll definitely be making this again. It was fairly easy to prep and used very few ingredients. Overall, this was delicious!!! Thank you for a great recipe that I can add trust to add into my rotation!
Delicious! Thank you! Have you ever tried to make this in a Crock-Pot, and if so, do you know if any modifications need to be made?
I would also like to know this!!
I would like to know as well. Looks really good, but I love my crockpot and pressure cooker.