Perfect Pineapple Orange Chicken Recipes

CHICKEN IN PINEAPPLE-ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a med-size roasting pan.
• Sprinkle chicken pieces with salt, pepper and paprika.
• Brown lightly on both sides.
• Place browned chicken pieces in roasting pan.
• In a bowl, mix together, the tomato sauce, orange juice, brown sugar, seasonings and 1/2 cup juice from the canned pineapple.
• Pour over chicken pieces.
• Bake, covered for approx 30 mins, uncover, and bake for another 30 mins, or until chicken is cooked, basting occasionally.
• Add drained pineapple chunks, 5 mins before removing from oven.
• Note: if sauce cooks down too much, add pineapple juice.
• Serve with white rice.

PINEAPPLE ORANGE CHICKEN /W RICE

Steps:

• Pre-Cook the rice, any method you like.
• Preheat oven to 350 deg.
• In a 3 Qt Dutch oven or other oven safe pan with cover.
• Heat the olive oil add the garlic and ginger Sauté until garlic just starts to turn brown.
• Add Chicken and Sauté until partially cooked.
• Add Pineapple/w juice, Orange and zest, mix.
• Add cooked Rice and mix well again.
• Add wine and lime, mix.
• Cover and place in oven for 20 minute.
• If too much liquid take cover off, finished dish should be very moist with only a little liquid in bottom of pan.

PERFECT PINEAPPLE ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place rinsed and dried chicken on a tray. Rub butter all over the chicken, top and bottom, then season evenly with salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour the pineapple juice and orange juice in the tray, not directly over the chicken.
• Bake chicken uncovered in the preheated oven for 1 1/2 hours, basting every 5 to 10 minutes with the juices. When it is done it should be a perfect golden brown.