
Grilled Huli Huli Chicken is a great take on teriyaki sauce with a combination of sweet, tangy, and savory flavors all in one great recipe to create perfectly bold flavor.
Huli Huli sauce recipes can be used with this grilled chicken recipe for marinade, or use the reserved marinade and turn it into sauce for stir fry and serve with rice.
Enjoy this easy grilled recipe during the summer for a refreshing yet savory chicken dinner.

Recipe Ingredients:
- Juice: for this recipe, you will need to use pineapple juice from the bottle or fresh pineapple juice
- Sugar: using brown sugar or coconut sugar that you have on hand
- Sauce: a combination of ketchup and soy sauce for the huli huli marinade
- Seasoning: use ground ginger and minced garlic pantry ingredients to add the perfect flavor
- Protein: use this marinade recipe with boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs



How To Make Huli Huli Chicken:
Make marinade:
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together pineapple juice, brown sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, ginger, and garlic.
- Pour the soy sauce mixture into a large resealable plastic bag and add the chicken.
Marinade chicken:
- Seal the bag and place in the fridge for at least 4 hours (or overnight).
- Remove bag from the fridge, drain and discard the used marinade from the chicken.
Cook chicken:
- Grill chicken over medium-high heat on your gas grill (or charcoal grill) for 6-8 minutes on each side or until the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 165℉.



Expert Tips:
- If you aren’t up for grilling but don’t want to miss out on this awesome recipe, you can use other cooking methods. Try baking this in the preheated oven at 400℉ until fully cooked through and the juices run clear. It will be around 25-30 minutes.
- Double the recipe for the sauce if you want to reserve the remaining marinade and turn it into a sauce, simmering it in a large saucepan with a cornstarch slurry.
- A simple trick to getting the sauce mixed well (especially if you are using fresh pineapple slices) is to throw everything into the food processor and blend until smooth.
- Crushed pineapple could be used in a pinch with the original recipe
Frequently Asked Questions for Making Huli Huli Chicken:
This particular recipe would be great as a dipping sauce or stir fry sauce. Just leave out the chicken and combine the rest of the ingredients into a small saucepan with a cornstarch slurry (1 tbsp cornstarch with 2 tbsp of cold water) and stir over low heat until it thickens to your personal preference.
Yes! Fresh juice will give this pineapple juice base marinade the best results. You can do this by blending up slices of pineapple until smooth.
When making this recipe, you could also use boneless chicken thighs if you like dark meat or chicken drumsticks. Either way, this huli-huli chicken will turn out great with this delicious marinade.
This would also be perfect to slather on chicken halves, marinate in the sweet and savory sauce, and bake in the oven or air fryer at 375℉ until the chicken reaches 165℉.
If you don’t have ground ginger, the other great option for this huli huli chicken marinade would be to use fresh ginger to get that same delicious flavor
Storage Instructions:
Fridge: Place any leftover chicken into an airtight container for up to 5 days.
What to serve with this recipe:
- Grilled caramelized brown sugar pineapple
- Creamy pasta salad recipe
- Slow cooker creamed corn
- Cheesy garlic green beans

Grilled Huli Huli Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup pineapple juice
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup ketchup
- ⅓ cup low sodium soy sauce
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Equipment
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together pineapple juice, brown sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, ginger and garlic.
- Pour marinade into a large resealable plastic bag and add chicken.
- Seal bag and place in the fridge for at least 4 hours (or overnight).
- Remove bag from fridge, drain and discard marinade from chicken.
- Grill chicken over medium-high heat for 6-8 minutes on each side or until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165℉.
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