Grilled Pineapple Chicken Foil Packets – chicken, pineapple, peppers, and onions slathered in a sweet and savory teriyaki sauce and cooked on the grill!
One of my favorite traditions growing up was tin foil dinners. That’s what we called them anyway. My mom always made them the same way: handmade hamburger patties + quartered baby potatoes + baby carrots. We’d cook them on the grill or over an open fire and when they were done, smother the heck out of them with ketchup.
Every now and then I still get cravings for my mom’s tin foil dinners, like this week I was dying for one. So I made one… with a totally new twist. Okay basically the only thing that was the same about it was the idea of food wrapped in foil and cooked on the grill. I swapped out hamburger meat for chicken and added 6 other simple yet totally irresistible ingredients…
pineapple + chicken + red peppers + green peppers + onion + the BEST and EASIEST two ingredient sauce everrrrr x10.
This recipe just might be my new favorite summertime dinner – try it, you’ll fall in love with it too!
Grilled Pineapple Chicken Foil Packets
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts - cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
- 1 red bell pepper - chopped
- 1 green bell pepper - chopped
- 1 small onion - chopped
- 1 15-ounce can pineapple chunks
Sauce
- 1 cup teriyaki sauce - (see note)
- 1 cup Asian toasted sesame dressing - (see note)
Instructions
- Preheat the grill. Lay out 4 large (about 24 inches long) pieces of foi. In a bowl whisk together teriyaki sauce and sesame dressing.
- Distribute chicken, peppers, onions, pineapple chunks, and sauce between the sheets of foil. Fold the the sides of the foil over the fillings and seal shut.
- Grill packets for about 10-15 minutes, turning over once half way through. Carefully unfold foil packets and check chicken to make sure it is cooked through. Garnish with cilantro and sesame seeds if desired, serve immediately.
Made this while camping. Delicious! Easy! Will make this often!
Can I eliminate the foil altogether and put everything into a slow cooker instead?
Sure!
If coking on the oven, what temperature & time would you suggest?
Bake in foil packs on a sheet pan at 400 degrees 15-25 minutes just until chicken pieces are cooked through.
Can this be done in the oven?
For sure!
So raw chicken only takes 15-20 minutes to cook?
Yes, because they are cut into small pieces.
Is there another way to cook this? I have my camping meals planned for my trip and I was making this for one of our dinners but, we currently have a burn ban in our state.. I have a camp stove and a propane fire pit.
either of those options can work! We have grilled these before and enjoyed the end result just as much!
Hi Neil here not sure about the sauce does it go in with the chicken or after the chicken is cooked cheers
Hi Neil! The sauce is used in step 2. Enjoy!
If I were to make these in the oven instead, what would be the suggested cooking instructions?
Hi Janie! 400 degrees F, about 15-20 minutes.
This is so cool looks yummy am gonna try it out
What sPecific sauces did you Use? I think theres supposed to be PictuRes of them but they aren’t showing up on my phone.
I only made the chicken and I used tenders. I added 1 Tablespoon each salt and pepper to the flour, and sprinkled more into the breadcrumbs after I sauteed them in the butter and pineapple.
where are the recipes for the sauces?
This looks so good! It’s on my list of recipes to try 🙂
What temperature would you use on the grill?
Could you cook these in the oven instead of grilling them?
I haven’t tried it but I bet you could! Probably at 350 degrees but I’m not exactly how long they will take to cook so you’ll need to check on the chicken here and there to check for doneness 🙂
Mmm! Im definitely going to make these this week for my family!
Yummy! This sounds really good!!
Thanks Shawnna! We really loved how easy and tasty this meal was!!