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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Collette Bolton
I have made 2 of your chicken recipes and both times when it comes out of the oven the toppings slide right off. How can I fix this?
Karen Miller
Do you drain the canned pineapple
Malia
Have you used any other kind of cheese instead of mozzarella?
Lindsey
Is this temp and time correct? We have issues with our oven being way too hot but I cooked to your time and temp and took this out after 25 minutes at 375 F then 4 minutes medium broil and this chicken was half cooked. Bummed that the topping didn’t work after the broil.
Marianne in Mo.
Lindsey, did you use bone-in chicken or very large breasts? If you used small-ish boneless breasts, they should have been cooked. I always check with a meat thermometer, just to be safe. I haven't made this recipe, but pinned to try this weekend.
Sharon
I had the same problem 🙁 trying to get the chicken the rest of the way cooked now but everything on top is burning
Jade
I agree I had the same issue as well
Noelle
Delish! I made it for my mom and she loved it too. Shredded the leftovers for wraps!
Rose
Would it still be good without the bacon?
Samantha
Delicious and super easy
Celina
What would you eat this with?
Jessica
We had cilantro rice.
Samm
Making this tomorrow for the fam! Wondering what kind of bbq sauce you like to use?!
Jill Cone
Very good! My whole family loved it and gave it a thumbs up. This will be added to our favorites.
Meg Ewen
Love this recipe, was wondering if you can freeze the leftovers? I would be looking to use recipe as is but we are a 2 person household. (most of the time )
Christy
Loved this recipe! It took longer than 30 mins to cook tonight. The chicken was on the thick side so I pounded it out. Made a side of white rice as family is super picky!! Definitely making again!
Tamra
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!
Daphnee Williams
I will be attempting this recipe tomorrow. I love pineapple, so am quite sure it will a hit. Thank you for sharing.
Kimberly
What side do you have with this recipe?
Julia
I think this will be great with roasted broccoli, asparagus, or green beans.