Chicken with pineapple in the oven is a real find for connoisseurs of the original combination of tender meat and sweetish pulp of an exotic fruit. The dish is original and can become your signature dish for the holidays, especially since it is a pleasure to cook it.

Oven recipe for chicken with pineapple

The best meat for baking is chicken breast or fillet. It retains juiciness if it is cooked correctly, and meat is considered to be a dietary product. The first cooking step is choosing the main ingredient, meat. There are no particular difficulties here, but the chicken should be perfectly fresh. Pay attention to the color of the breast: it should be pale pink, without whitish streaks and spots.

With pineapples, everything is much simpler: get canned fruit in jars. Rings or pieces - not so important, but the date of manufacture should be as fresh as possible.

Here is the complete list of ingredients:

  • Poultry meat - 800-1000 g;
  • A can of pineapples with ringlets or slices - 850 g (along with juice);
  • Hard cheese - 200 g;
  • Mayonnaise - 100 ml;
  • Spices to taste (oregano, thyme, Provence herbs) - a pinch;
  • Salt and pepper to taste.

First, wash the chicken and cut it into pieces of equal size. They will need to be beaten off and the thinner the better - so they absorb the marinade, and bake faster. Rub the chops with a mixture of seasonings, salt to taste and leave to marinate for 20 minutes. You can marinate in mayonnaise by adding a little pineapple juice, and some housewives add two tablespoons of soy sauce. It gives meat a special flavor. But in this case it is better to add less salt: soy sauce itself is salty.

While the meat is saturated with the aroma of spices, mayonnaise and juice, we will prepare pieces of pineapple, and preheat the oven to 200 degrees, and grease the baking sheet with butter.

It is important to see if you got thick or thin pieces from the can. Are the rings too big and fleshy? It will be correct to carefully cut them into 2 thin "washers". Large pieces of fruit will be baked longer than meat, and the dish will be stewed unevenly. The top of culinary skills when the thickness of meat and pineapple is the same. Pineapples cut into 2 pieces and stack, spreading over the breast.

Now it’s small: put the slices of breast, put pineapple on top of the meat, and make a thin net of mayonnaise (in principle, it will not be scary to grease the sauce with a culinary brush, but make sure that the layer is not too thick). And one more tip: it’s worth leaving a small distance between the pieces: they won’t “stick together” during the baking process, plus this will have a good effect on the quality of the process. While cooking, pour the slices of pineapple juice - it will be absorbed into the meat, transfer its fragrant spicy aroma, and the chicken will turn out delicious!

After 20 minutes, when the pieces are browned, it is time to sprinkle the dish with cheese: try to do this carefully so that on top of each chop there is a cap of grated cheese. Let it melt, wait for the golden crust and serve the dish to the table.

A logical question arises, which side dish is suitable for this dish? It is self-sufficient! Supplement it with a sprig of greenery, decorate with something light, for example, cherry tomato halves or olives, and you can invite to the table!

Cooking in a slow cooker - step by step recipe

The dish will acquire a completely new taste if you move away from the classic recipe and cook it in a slow cooker. A stewed chicken with juicy slices of pineapple will go well with a creamy sauce that you can eat on your own, just dipping slices of fresh bread in it.

For a new version of the dish you will need:

  • Cream 10%. - 300 ml;
  • A can of pineapples 850 g (with juice);
  • Chicken pieces from any part - 500 g;
  • Vegetable oil - 30 g;
  • Salt, spices to taste.

Cooking step by step:

  1. Cut the chicken fillet (legs, thighs) into pieces the size of a matchbox.
  2. Fry the meat in a multi-bowl in vegetable oil using the "Frying" mode.
  3. Add pineapples with juice to the chicken.
  4. Pour the cream into the mixture.
  5. Season with spices, salt.
  6. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode.
  7. We are waiting for the signal to end the operation of the device.

Creamy chicken pieces melting in your mouth with a subtle taste and a slight sweetness of pineapple can be served with friable rice: they are combined perfectly. Serve the dish well with warmed onion bread or ciabatta.

Remember: in an average can of pineapples, the “yield” of the fruit is 490 grams. the rest is juice. But for our dish - this is the perfect balance, because we will use everything without a trace.

With pineapple and cheese

If you have mastered the dish - it's time to make your own adjustments to it, for example, try changing the type of cheese. The best cheese for baking in the oven is hard. But even with cottage cheese, like Philadelphia, the food is surprisingly tasty, tender and moderately fat.

 

We cook the chicken according to the basic recipe, but do not simmer for 20 minutes, but 15. Then we spread for each serving a tablespoon of soft curd cheese, leveling it all over the medallion. Cook for another 10-15 minutes, until a delicious golden crust appears. Serve with a salad of Beijing cabbage and fresh cucumber, sprinkled with sesame seeds.

With the addition of potatoes

Chicken under a pineapple with potatoes will be very unusual if you give it a light Asian flavor, seasoning the dish with ginger and basil.

To prepare, prepare:

  • Pineapple (you can take fresh) - a jar;
  • Chicken (fillet is better) - 800 g;
  • Ginger, basil, paprika - to taste;
  • Mayonnaise;
  • Garlic;
  • Salt pepper;
  • Hard cheese - 150 g.

Boil potatoes until half cooked and cut into small round pieces. We wash the chicken, beat and lay on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with spices, and then add the pineapple “washer” (or pieces) on top of each piece. We cover everything with a thin mesh of mayonnaise. Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees, periodically pouring pineapple juice. At the very end, add the cheese, let it melt.Hot serve to the table! The dish goes well with fresh vegetables and herbs.

Why not put raw potatoes? The fact is that in pineapple juice there is an acid that will prevent the potatoes from becoming soft, crumbly. Some varieties of "bulbs" even remain half-baked, even after prolonged preparation.

Chicken with pineapple, tomato, onion and cheese

You can always complicate the recipe by adding new ingredients to the dish. You did not know that pineapples and tomatoes complement each other? It's time to make sure of this by discovering a new taste.

 

Chicken can be cooked according to a basic recipe. Only in our case do we first spread the onion on it, which we cut in half rings (1 large head on a whole baking sheet will be enough). Next, we form a layer of pineapples, which are interspersed with thin slices of fresh tomatoes. Cover the dish with a layer of mayonnaise and send it to bake for 30 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees. Traditionally, cheese is added in the last turn, otherwise it will dry out and lose all its charm.

Pineapple Chicken Thigh Recipe

There are housewives who do not like breast, considering the meat is rather dry. In this case, try the chicken thigh recipe. It will turn out tender, juicy, but at the same time non-greasy if you remove the skin from the pieces.

You can pickle a bird in a mixture of pineapple juice, orange, soy sauce and salt. It is advisable to hold it in the marinade all night, then the fibers will become very soft. Thighs are placed on a baking sheet, and then you can act, adhering to the basic recipe. Each piece individually is sprinkled with cheese: when melted, it evenly covers each piece and it literally melts in the mouth.

For a dish, it is better to choose the so-called thigh fillet, when the manufacturer cuts the hips himself, leaving one small bone inside. Slices slightly beat off, and then sprinkled with any spices.

With mushrooms

Chicken under pineapple will be even more flavorful if you add mushrooms to the dish. Forest is not worth looking for, champignons are much better here, which are cut into thin slices and stacked on top of pieces of meat.

Chicken is prepared in the same way as in the classic recipe, but it’s important not to overdo it with the juice: the mushrooms also release liquid when stewed, and if the pineapple juice is poured, the food will “float”. Mushrooms cook quickly, so the total cooking time remains the same - 30 minutes.

As you can see, the chicken with pineapple and cheese in the oven cooks very quickly, and the chores are the most minimal. By the way, she has another big plus - low cost. One small can of pineapple, chicken breast, a drop of cheese and mayonnaise is enough to feed a group of friends. And - we are sure - the guests will surely appreciate your efforts and return to try the dish again.

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