Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken
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This summery Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken is all cooked together on one pan, meaning easy dinner and easy clean up! It’s full of fresh flavor and you’ll love the balance of lightly sweet and lightly sour here. Add this one to the menu this week, it’s a dinner the whole family will enjoy!
Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken
This Hawaiian chicken recipe is inspired by one of my most popular recipes, Hawaiian Chicken Kebabs. This sheet pan chicken recipe may not have the same charred flavor, but it skips some of the steps that those kebabs require, making this variation the more simplified version that’s perfect for weeknight meals.
It’s amazingly delicious, and I like to serve this with coconut rice, but white or brown rice works great as well.
Hawaiian Chicken Ingredients
For this easy sheet pan recipe, you’ll need:
- Soy sauce
- Ketchup
- Pineapple juice concentrate
- Brown sugar
- Rice vinegar
- Corn starch
- Worcestershire
- Garlic
- Fresh ginger
- Salt and pepper
- Bell peppers
- Red onion
- Chicken breasts
- Fresh pineapple
- Cilantro
How to Make Hawaiian Chicken on a Sheet Pan
- Add the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and whisk to combine.
- Place diced bell peppers, red onion and chicken on a prepared sheet pan, then toss with sauce to evenly coat.
- Cook for 10 minutes, then add pineapple to sheet pan.
- Continue cooking until fully cooked through. Toss to distribute sauce again just before serving.
Can I Use Canned Pineapple Instead of Fresh?
For best results, stick with fresh pineapple. Canned pineapple has a lot more juice and isn’t the same texture.
Is There a Pineapple Juice Concentrate Substitute I Can Use?
If your grocery store doesn’t sell pineapple juice concentrate or you simply can’t locate it, I recommend using apple juice concentrate instead.
Tips for the Best Hawaiian Chicken
- Try to cut the chicken as uniform in size as possible, this way it will all be done cooking at the same time and you won’t be over-cooking smaller pieces.
- Be sure to check the chicken for doneness with an instant read thermometer, center should register 165 degrees F.
- Start out your rice first before you begin prepping this recipe. That way the rice will be finished by the time this chicken is done, plus it will have a little time to rest so it’s not wet.
- Replace the lid on the pineapple juice concentrate, transfer to an airtight container and keep frozen after you’ve measured what’s needed for this recipe. That way you can make it again. Or just mix up some pineapple juice with that’s left to serve with this dinner.
More Easy Chicken Recipes You’ll Love:
- Teriayki Chicken (easy skillet recipe)
- Chicken Fried Rice
- Chinese Orange Chicken
- Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza
- Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Follow Cooking Classy
Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken
Ingredients
Sauce
- 2 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 3 Tbsp pineapple juice concentrate (thaw if totally solidified)
- 2 Tbsp packed brown sugar (light or dark)
- 1 1/2 Tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- 2 tsp worcestershire
- 2 tsp minced garlic (2 cloves)
- 2 tsp peeled and minced fresh ginger
- 3/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Chicken mixture
- 1 medium green bell pepper, cored and diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 medium red bell pepper, cored and diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 small red onion, chopped into chunks
- 1 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts, diced into 1-inch cubes
- 2 cups fresh cubed pineapple*
- 2 Tbsp chopped cilantro (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray a rimmed 18 by 13-inch baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk together soy sauce, cornstarch, ketchup, pineapple juice concentrate, brown sugar, rice vinegar, cornstarch worcestershire, garlic, ginger, and pepper.
- Place red and green bell peppers, red onion and chicken on baking sheet then pour sauce over top and toss to evenly coat.
- Cook in preheated oven 10 minutes, remove from oven and toss.
- Sprinkle in pineapple. Return to oven, continue to cook until chicken is cooked through, about 7 - 10 minutes longer.
- Remove from oven toss once more to coat with sauce.
- Serve warm over coconut rice if desired.
Notes
- *Stick with fresh pineapple in this recipe. Frozen or canned cannot be substituted.Â
- Recipe source: Cooking Classy