Best Baked Hawaiian Chicken Recipe

This Baked Hawaiian Chicken recipe is so easy and your family will love it. Chicken recipes are my go-to dinner recipe because they are usually quick and not too difficult to pull off. We like easy around here!

The sweetness of this baked chicken with pineapple and brown sugar is so delicious. You will want to make this again and again!

Ingredients for This Baked Hawaiian Chicken Recipe

You'll need to start with about two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. The light breading of cornstarch, eggs, salt, and pepper will hold the sauce really well.

You are only getting crisping the chicken on the stove. It's not cooking there - you'll be baking it after adding the sauce.

For the sauce, you'll need a can of pineapple including juice from the can, dark brown sugar, soy sauce, minced garlic, cornstarch, and red pepper.

How to Make Baked Hawaiian Chicken

Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan and preheat the oven to 325 degrees

Season chicken with salt and pepper and cut in bite-size pieces.

Place cornstarch in a Ziploc bag, and eggs in a separate medium bowl.

Shake up chicken pieces in cornstarch to coat, then coat in eggs.

Heat vegetable oil in a large, non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.

Crisp coated chicken in the skillet, until just golden-brown on all sides. (Don’t cook it all the way through. It will finish in the oven.)

Place chicken in the prepared dish.

In a medium bowl whisk together the Hawaiian chicken marinade ingredients. 

Pour sauce evenly over chicken and let the flavors meld for 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle the top of the chicken with the chopped bell pepper and pineapple.

Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring the chicken every 15 minutes so it gets evenly coated in sauce.

Remove from the oven and let stand 5 minutes before serving. Enjoy!

I'd begin this meal with an appetizer of these Cha Gio Vietnamese Spring Rolls. They are so good and easy to make. Get the kids to help. This is cooking they would really enjoy. 

This baked Hawaiian chicken recipe would be delicious with white or brown rice, rice noodles, or even a simple serving of broccoli on the side. It's a healthier dinner recipe and your family will be thrilled with the delicious flavor!

What Other Ingredients Could I Use with this Baked Hawaiian Chicken Recipe?

I would be inclined to add ingredients instead of replacing,  like broccoli or snow peas - at the very end so they are still crispy.

You could also thread these on skewers for baked Hawaiian chicken kabobs. Hawaiian chicken thighs would be good, and the kids would love Hawaiian chicken legs.

The pineapple gives the chicken the Hawaiian flavor, but you could also pair the chicken with peaches. You may have seen this delicious chicken and peaches recipe a while back. 

I've seen recipes with dried apricots and raisins, too, which actually sounds so good! You can also replace the red pepper with something like sweet Vidalia onion if you don't like peppers. (My husband would be the first to request that! He says peppers make everything taste like peppers!)

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Baked Hawaiian Chicken Recipe

This baked Hawaiian chicken recipe will be your new favorite easy recipe for busy nights.

Course Dinner

Cuisine American

Keyword baked hawaiian chicken recipe, hawaiian chicken

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Servings 6 servings

Calories 527kcal

Ingredients

For chicken

• 2 lbs chicken breasts skinless, boneless
• 1 C cornstarch
• 3 eggs large, beaten
• 1/4 C vegetable oil
• salt and pepper to taste

For sauce/ marinade

• 1 C pineapple juice I used the juice from the can
• 1/2 C dark brown sugar
• 1/3 C soy sauce low sodium
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 1/2 T cornstarch
• 1 red bell pepper Medium, chopped
• 20 oz Pineapple tidbits As per instructions, use the juice to mix with the sauce

Instructions

• Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan and preheat the oven to 325 degrees
• Season chicken with salt and pepper and cut in bite-size pieces.
• Place cornstarch in a Ziploc bag, and eggs in a separate medium bowl.
• Shake up chicken pieces in cornstarch to coat, then coat in eggs.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large, non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
• Cook coated chicken, until golden-brown on all sides. (Don’t cook it all the way through. It will finish in the oven.) Place chicken in the prepared dish.
• In a medium bowl whisk together the Hawaiian chicken marinade ingredients. Pour evenly over chicken and let the flavors meld for 10-15 minutes.
• Sprinkle the top of the chicken with the chopped bell pepper and pineapple.
• Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour. (Stirring the chicken every 15 minutes so it gets evenly coated in sauce.)
• Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 527kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 179mg | Sodium: 936mg | Potassium: 852mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 832IU | Vitamin C: 40mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 2mg

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