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We love grilled chicken and this is one of our favorite recipes. The chicken breasts are marinated in a dry rub, smothered in a pineapple mustard sauce and topped with ham, Swiss cheese and a pineapple ring.
You can serve on a plate or on a bun for a delicious sandwich!
Grilled Malibu Chicken Recipe
This grilled Malibu Chicken is amazing. Marinated in a dry rub, smothered in a pineapple mustard sauce and topped with ham, swiss cheese and a pineapple ring.
Serving
Ingredients
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, boneless skinless
- 2 Tablespoons BBQ seasoning
- 2 Tablespoons butter (unsalted), melted
- 20 ounces pineapple slices, reserve juice
- 1 Tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 Tablespoon molasses
- 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 12 slices deli ham
- 6 slices Swiss cheese
Equipment
Instructions
- Put one chicken breast in a gallon zip-top bag and pound it until the entire breast is uniform in thickness, then move to a platter or rimmed sheet pan. Repeat with the remaining chicken breasts.
- Season both sides of each chicken breast with the BBQ seasoning, cover and refrigerate at least an hour.
- Combine melted butter, pineapple juice from canned pineapple slices, mustard, honey, molasses, Worcestershire sauce, and chili powder in a medium mixing bowl and whisk until smooth, then set aside.
- Grill one side of each chicken breast and each pineapple ring over direct heat until they are seared and have nice grill marks, about 2 minutes.
- Flip each chicken breast and ring, brush with the sauce, and cook another two minutes.
- Move the chicken to the indirect part of the grill and brush the top of each with the sauce.
- Top each breast with two slices of ham and drizzle the ham with the sauce.
- Put a slice of cheese then a pineapple ring on each breast and drizzle again with the sauce.
- Continue cooking with the grill lid down until the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees F (about 10 minutes).
Nutrition
Calories: 555 kcal · Carbohydrates: 25 g · Protein: 66 g · Fat: 21 g · Saturated Fat: 8 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 195 mg · Sodium: 1017 mg · Potassium: 1237 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 19 g · Vitamin A: 488 IU · Vitamin C: 13 mg · Calcium: 226 mg · Iron: 4 mg
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Oh my this looks yummy. PINNED!
This looks delicious. I need to find something to spice up our meals. Thanks for visiting Pounds4Pennies this week. Stop by to LINK up this great recipe!
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Oh my goodness! That looks so good! I’ll be adding this to my menu for next week for sure!!
This look divine 🙂 And I already have most of these ingredients 🙂 Making next week.
Thanks for the mention. I’m glad you enjoy the recipe. I love me some happy eaters. 😉
So I am not the only one who had a bad experience with throwing up after eating at Sizzler. Definitely going to pin this one!
This sounds so delicious!!!
I worked at a Sizzler thru my high school years! We still make a version of Malibu Chicken for our family meals, but I like the idea of your grilled version! Thanks for sharing!
sounds {and looks} so good! my kids will love this one:)
WOW! This was wonderful. My youngest who rarely finishes any of her dinner said, “Mom I have just one thing to say, YUM!!!”
I have made this recipe two times…my kids LOVE it..its soooo very good! The first time I made this I did not save the juice from the pineapple (I use fresh, much better to grill) and it was really good, and the 2nd time I made this I had the pineapple juice but not honey..and it was still good!!! Without the pineapple juice, the sauce was thicker and stuck to the chicken a bit better…but either way was still so VERY good!
We do not have a grill, is this possible to make in the oven (I know it won’t have the lovely grill flavor, but needs must).
You could bake this in the oven. Grilling is a faster cooking time, so you will need to cook for longer and watch closely and make sure that the chicken is cooked through.
What Brand of BBQ seasoning do you use?
Really any brand works great. We like McCormick Grill Mates.
Do you have recipes for the Ninja Foodie grill?
Most of our grilling recipes could be adapted to the Ninja Foodie Indoor grill.
Is there a possible substitution for the mustard?
You can just leave it out if you don’t like mustard.
We tried this tonight. It was delicious!!