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 flavor of this baked chicken with pineapple and brown sugar is so delicious. Think sweet and sour sauce, and you've got the right idea. You will want to make this again and again!

For another simple and delicious recipe, try this Chinese Ginger Chicken. It's our latest favorite!

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 crisping the chicken on the stove. It's not cooking there - you'll be baking it after adding the sauce. And that sweet sauce, holy moly. You are going to want that all over the veggies - and rice if you're making it. 

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

Variations & Substitutions

You could add so many different vegetables to this recipe. Try broccoli, string beans, snow peas, or you favorite.

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.

How to Make Sweet 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. This marinade is what gives this sweet Hawaiian chicken so much flavor.

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

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

This Hawaiian rice would be delicious with the Hawaiian chicken.

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!

Recipe FAQs

More Chicken Recipes

I made this easy chicken stew a couple of weeks ago and it was heavenly comfort food. This one pan chicken and rice was super good, easy to make, and easy to clean up. I think you'd also like this lemon-lime cilantro cast iron chicken, too.

Looking for dessert? Try these Peanut Butter Brownies or these Decadent Butter Finger Brownies!

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