These Bacon Wrapped Chicken Teriyaki Bites are sure to be a huge hit on game day! Sweet and savory, packed full of flavor, and just 5 ingredients! Sure to be your new favorite appetizer! Score!
I don’t know about you but I couldn’t be more excited that football season is here! Don’t get me wrong, it’s not really the football games I’m excited about, it’s the food. Sure, watching football can be exciting, watching my husband watch football can be hilarious, but making and enjoying game day eats…that’s what football season is really all about to me. Shocked? No, I didn’t think so.
I’ve got a super easy recipe for you today that is going to have your family cheering all season long. Just 5 ingredients and loads of flavor, this recipe can easily be adapted to feed the crowd that you have over.
It starts with bacon and if that isn’t a required ingredient for game day recipes…it should be. A pound of chicken, cut into bite sized pieces and marinated in a delicious concoction of Dole pineapple juice and your favorite low-sodium teriyaki sauce. Yum!
Bite size pieces of chicken get wrapped in the bacon, rolled in brown sugar and along with a gorgeous juicy pineapple chunk, speared by a toothpick. Couldn’t be easier. Off to the oven for a quick bake and then a few minutes under the broiler and you’ve got a mouth-watering, finger-licking good appetizer on your hands.
I think it’s fun to top these chicken bites with green onions and additional sesame seeds to really kick up the teriyaki flair, but those are totally optional.
You’re going to LOVE the sweet addition the pineapple adds to this easy recipe! Check out this video and see how easy these Bacon Wrapped Chicken Teriyaki Bites are to make!
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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Teriyaki Bites
Ingredients
- 1 lb boneless skinless, chicken breasts
- 1 lb bacon
- 20 oz Dole Pineapple Chunks in 100% Pineapple Juice
- 3/4 cup low-sodium Teriyaki sauce
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- toothpicks soaked in water for at least an hour
Instructions
- Cut chicken into bite-size pieces.
- Drain the juice from the can of pineapple chunks. Cover and refrigerate the pineapple chunks until needed.
- Combine the pineapple juice and teriyaki sauce in a large resealable plastic bag or bowl.
- Add the chicken pieces.
- Seal and refrigerate for one hour, turning the bag once.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Line a broiler pan with foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Cut the strips of bacon into thirds.
- Working in batches, wrap each piece of chicken with a strip of bacon and roll in brown sugar.
- Push a toothpick through a pineapple chunk and then through the bacon-wrapped chicken.
- Place on prepared broiler pan.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through, turning chicken bites once.
- Turn on broiler and broil for 2 to 3 minutes per side until bacon is nice and crispy. I left my pan on the middle rack so the toothpicks wouldn’t burn. Always keep on eye on your food when using the broiler. Things happen fast!
- Serve immediately!
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Karen says
You might try soaking the toothpicks in water for 1/2 to 1 hour before wrapping. Helps prevent burning,
Kathy says
Adding these to the New Year’s Appetizer Menu. A few ideas. Use round toothpicks or bamboo sticks, cut uniform size chicken & thin sliced bacon vs thick cut. Made approx 40 bites.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Thanks Kathy!
Cathy says
How many toothpicks worth of these yummy chicken bites does this recipe make?
Charles Aznavour says
It is OK considering Dole and their commitment to good clean products, but that bacon! It is not normal, cured bacon, in fact that actually isn’t bacon. It is battery pork injected with salts and bacon flavor. Bin it and buy some real bacon, cured properly that you have sourced from a local, small scale producer, Same with the chicken. Do not ever buy Tyson or Pilgrims pride etc, never ever, it has been possibly frozen, thawed, allowed to go off, washed in chlorine and re-frozen, This is allowed to be done in the US three times before it is sold to be fed back to chickens, which is gross. This chicken could be 5-6 years old and still passed as edible. Also, It is most likely to have been injected with brine and carageen or seaweed. This is known as “Plumping” it is done to add weight to the chicken (more $$$$) and to make it appear wholesome and nutritious, which it isn’t. Go local, go real food.
99Chats says
Looks delicious.
Darla says
Can you just grill them??
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Putting bacon directly on a grill will most likely result in a lot of flare-ups… Please be careful if you do try it that way!
Gloria says
Decided to make these for Super Bowl and extra for the next Sunday for a birthday party. I’ll make some and freeze the chicken til next Saturday and pull it out and make the rest of them….killing 2 birds with one stone.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Perfect! Like how you think!