Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry Recipe

This delicious Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry offers up some beautiful sweet and sour flavors of Asia that can easily be made at home with everyday ingredients. This simple dish is ready in under 30 minutes, is packed full of Vegetables and tastes delicious. It makes for an easy and tasty dinner to feed the family for a busy weeknight. The use of canned Pineapple in the recipe means you can cook this tasty dish all year round

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What is the inspiration for this Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry recipe?

We’ve been loving the recipes over at Omnivore’s Cookbook lately and this one is no exception. The striking visuals of the plating of this dish is what immediately drew us to the recipe. Being huge fans of Pineapple here at Dinnertime Somewhere, the pairing of Pineapple and Chicken was an immediate draw for us. Hey, we even like Pineapple on Pizza, so naturally a Chicken and Pineapple Stir Fry is going to work well for us!

For this recipe we didn’t really make many modifications to the original. Being a Stir Fry, we took some liberties to add some additional Vegetables to the dish, but other than that we kept the recipe pretty true to the original

What’s great about Stir Fries is you can add pretty much any Vegetable you like and they’re going to taste great. We simply included some roughly chopped Celery to the dish and added them to the pan the same time as the Bell Peppers. The results were great, with a nice additional crunchy element added to the meal

Easy Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry Recipe — This recipe makes the most delicious tasting Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry. It’s such an easy meal to make too!

How to make Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry

This dish is prepared very much like a classic Asian Stir Fry. There’s a meat component, a Sauce component, and the Stir Fry component. Each are very simple to prepare and cook. Just follow the steps in the right order and you’ll be enjoying this wonderful dish in no time at all

Beginning with the Marinade. You will need to cut up about 1 ½ lbs. of Chicken Thighs into bite-sized pieces. I recommend opting for Chicken Thighs over Breast as they have more flavor and are a lot more forgiving when it comes to cooking. Slightly overcook them and they’ll still be nice and tender

Season the Chicken well with Salt and Pepper and then let them sit in a simple marinade consisting of Chinese Cooking Wine. You don’t need to add anything else, just let the Chicken soak in the Wine for at least 30 minutes

Preparing the Sauce

The fun element of this Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry is one of the key components in the sauce is Pineapple Juice that you can use straight from Canned Pineapple. No need for freshly squeezed (and expensive) Pineapple Juice, just get a big can of Pineapple Chunks in Juice and use that Juice for the Sauce

Along with the Juice goes some classic Asian Stir Fry Sauce ingredients of Soy Sauce, Rice Wine Vinegar, Brown Sugar, and Corn Starch. Mix it all together and set it aside until you are ready to cook. I would also recommend giving the sauce one final stir right before you add it to the Stir Fry to get the Corn Starch nicely mixed through

Cooking Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry — Have all of your ingredients prepared before you begin to cook, as the Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry will take less than 10 minutes of cooking time

Chop up your Vegetables and have them ready to go before you start cooking

The final step is preparing the Veggies. We’ve opted for a combination of Celery and Red Bell Peppers. Along with some freshly grated Ginger and of course, Pineapple Chunks. Get these all prepared before you begin cooking to make things a lot easier for you

You can add more / different Vegetables to the ones we’ve listed in the recipe. Sliced Brown Onion would be a nice addition, as would Snap Peas and Carrots. Try not to add too many different types of Vegetables, however, as the true star of the show is the Pineapple, which gives the dish its beautiful, sweet flavor

It’s time to cook!

With the ingredients ready and the Chicken having been marinated for (at least) 30 minutes it’s time to cook. Fire up a large frying pan or wok over high heat on your stovetop with some Peanut Oil. While the pan is heating, drench your Chicken in Corn Starch and then pat dry

Once hot, add the Chicken and cook for about 2 minutes while stirring. This will almost completely cook it through, but not entirely. Remove the Chicken from the pan at this point and replace it with the Vegetables

Chicken Stir Fry with Pineapple — The Chicken and Vegetables are great, but the real hero in this dish is that wonderfully sweet Pineapple

Fry them up for a few minutes until charred and then in goes the Sauce. Stir through the Sauce and again cook it for a minute or so until it begins to thicken and then return that Chicken to the pan. Stir everything through and cook until the Chicken is cooked through completely (internal temperature of 160F) and the dish is complete!

We recommend serving this dish with fresh Steamed Rice or Noodles

You can’t have stir fry without a nice starch to help absorb that delicious Sauce. For this Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry, we recommend enjoying it with a big bowl of Steamed Rice. Here’s our recipe to show you how to make perfect Steamed Rice at home. You can begin to cook the Rice before you start the stir fry, as that will take about 25 minutes to cook through. Once done, serve into individual bowls or family style at the table and enjoy!

Recipe Details

Servings

2 – 4 people

Prep time

15 minutes

Cooking time

10 minutes

Total time

25 minutes