Pineapple Chicken #ketofriendly

Cooking with fruit is a bit of a controversy in the culinary world. Some say it makes things too sweet – others say they don’t like cooked fruit unless it’s dessert. I have been playing around with it lately and really had some success. My latest creation is a Pineapple Chicken. It has a sort of Teriyaki BBQ Sauce that mixes so well with the sweetness of the pineapple.

I like to use bone-in chicken for dishes like this – because you want them to stay together in individual pieces and not falling apart. Which they will because the sauce makes it just so tender! The sauce is very simple to put together too! It cooks so well along with the chicken. You could certainly use other cuts of chicken (bone-in or boneless), just keep in mind that it will serve up differently.

You could serve this on it’s own or maybe with an Asian Slaw. I decided to make some ginger rice to accompany it. Just 2 cups of long grain rice, 1 qt of chicken broth and a tablespoon of fresh grated ginger in a covered pot. Put it on medium heat and cook for 20 minutes.

Now Let’s Get Cookin’!

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Pineapple Chicken

A sweet and savory chicken dish full of flavor!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Chicken, pineapple, rice, teryaki

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Ingredients

• 8 Chicken Thighs, bone-in, skin-on
• 2 tbsp Avocado Oil
• 3 Garlic Cloves minced
• 1 Yellow Onion minced
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Pepper
• 1 20oz can Pineapple Rings in own juices cut in half, reserve juices
• 3 Scallions chopped, for garnish

For the Sauce

• 1 tbsp Ginger grated
• 1 15oz can Tomato Puree
• ¼ cup Coco Aminos
• 1 tbsp Sesame Seeds
• 1 tbsp Rice Vinegar
• ¼ cup Honey

Instructions

• Prepare all of the ingredients.
• In a large sauce pan over medium high heat, add oil, onions and garlic. Cook for 3 minutes. Sprinkle Chicken with salt and pepper. Place chicken skin down in pan and cook for 5 minutes. Flip chicken and cook another 5 minutes.
• In a small bowl, combine sauce ingredients and juice from can of pineapple. Pour sauce over chicken and reduce heat to medium.
• Place pieces of pineapple on each piece of chicken and cover with lid. Cook another 20 minutes.
• Serve chicken with piece of pineapple and sprinkle of scallions. Sprinkle with sesame seeds as well, if desired.