These chicken bacon kabobs are made with fresh pineapple, onions, peppers, and bacon. You can grill them in the Summertime or make them in your air fryer. I recently updated this post to include air fryer instructions because who doesn't have an air fryer in their house these days?
If you love grilled food try Grilled Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs, Grilled Lemon Chicken Breasts, Grilled Corn on the Cob, How to Grill Top Sirloin Steak, and Beer Brats.
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Ingredients Needed
Chicken - Cut boneless skinless chicken breasts into equal bite size pieces
Fresh Pineapple - Cut to about the same size as the chicken pieces, will help with the cooking time
Onion and Bell Pepper - Again cut these to the same size as the chicken and pineapple. I don't always use a bell pepper when making these. It's not pictured above.
Bacon - thinly sliced
Chicken Marinade - Canned Pineapple Juice, cornstarch, brown sugar, soy sauce
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to make Bacon, Pineapple, Chicken Kabobs
Step 1: To make the Hawaiian sauce: Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and stir until the cornstarch is dissolved. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 2 minutes. Set-aside until ready to use.
Step 2: Thread the skewers. Weave the bacon around each piece of chicken and pineapple, stick the bell pepper and onion together and weave the bacon around both of those. You'll need two strips of bacon per skewer if using 4 pieces of chicken and 3 pieces each of pineapple, bell pepper and onion. Brush some olive or vegetable oil evenly over each kabob.
Step 3: Preheat the grill to medium high. Grill the kabobs for 10-15, turning a couple of times, until done.
Step 4: Slather with hot Hawaiian sauce and serve immediately.
Air Fryer: Set the temperature to 400 degrees and the time for 5 minutes. Place kabobs in air fryer basket. Flip kabob over and cook for another 5 minutes. Enjoy!
Serving size: 1 kabob
Best Grilling Tips
- Always Start with a clean grill. Make sure last nights dinner isn’t stuck on it. 😉
- Get any type of meat thermometer. This will help to check for proper doneness and to make sure the meat is at the proper temperature.
- Grilling is done at very high heats to cook food faster. Smokers are used for low and slow cooking.
- Know when to use direct heat.
- The best outdoor type grills are Webber or Blackstone. Blackstone are a flat top cooking service that don’t have any grates in them.
What to serve with Chicken Kabobs?
Looking for some tasty Summer side dishes to serve with chicken kabobs? Try these out.
Pasta Salads: Italian Pasta Salad, Mexican Macaroni Salad, BLT Pasta Salad, Shrimp and Pea Orzo Salad
Crock Pot Sides: Crock Pot Mac and Cheese, Slow Cooker Calico Beans
Cold Salads: Berry Cheesecake Salad and Aunt Carol’s Potato Salad
Recipe FAQs
Make a marinade or brine to soak the chicken in prior to cooking it on the grill on high heat. This will ensure a juicy flavorful chicken. Add some acid to it like a fresh citrus fruit such as lemon.
Chicken kabobs can take anywhere from 8 - 12 minutes on a grill. To have perfect chicken kabobs everytime make sure all the ingredients are the same size.
Always store leftovers in clean, food-grade containers. The type of container doesn’t really matter. Use zip lock, glass, plastic, whatever! Make sure to store any leftovers in an airtight container before putting it in the freezer or fridge.
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Bacon, Pineapple, Chicken Kabobs
- Prep Time: 20min
- Cook Time: 10-15 min
- Total Time: 10-15 min
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
These chicken bacon skewers are made with fresh pineapple, onions, peppers, and bacon. You can grill them in the Summertime or make them in your air fryer.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 large pineapple, cut into 1 ½ inch chunks
- 2 large red bell peppers, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
- 1 large onion, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
- 12 strips of thin cut bacon
- FOR THE HAWAIIAN SAUCE:
- 1 ½ cups pineapple juice
- 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 long skewers
Instructions
- To make the Hawaiian sauce: Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and stir until the cornstarch is dissolved. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 2 minutes. Set-aside until ready to use.
- Thread the skewers. Weave the bacon around each piece of chicken and pineapple, stick the bell pepper and onion together and weave the bacon around both of those. You'll need two strips of bacon per skewer if using 4 pieces of chicken and 3 pieces each of pineapple, bell pepper and onion. Brush some olive or vegetable oil evenly over each kabob.
- Preheat the grill to medium high. Grill the kabobs for 10-15, turning a couple of times, until done.
- Slather with hot Hawaiian sauce and serve immediately..
- Air Fryer: Set the temperature to 400 degrees and the time for 5 minutes. Place kabobs in air fryer basket. Flip kabob over and cook for another 5 minutes. Enjoy!
- Serving size: 1 kabob
Notes
myWW points: Blue 5; Green 7; Purple 5
Points are calculated with the WW recipe builder app and not using the nutrition info.
- Category: Easy
- Method: Air Fryer
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 skewer
- Calories: 293
- Sugar: 20
- Fat: 9
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Unsaturated Fat: 3
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 22
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 20
Keywords: bacon chicken skewers
Rochelle Bell says
I made this tonight like a stirfry. Caramelized the onion and removed from the wok, added the bacon for a minute or two, added the chicken (and added zucchini and red pepper) and stirfried. Made the sauce in a separate pan. Added the red onion near the end to soften, add pineapple back in and serve with a drizzle of sauce. Yum!
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S.P. says
Looks great! How many people does this serve?
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Misty says
How many skewers does this recipe make?
Caroline says
I made these tonight using red onion. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
All 4 of my kids enjoyed (ages range from 7 all the way down to 18 months) and husband's favorite part was the sauce. Will definitely make again!
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Evelynne says
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Kelly @ TastingPage says
Love this tropical feeling dish with the pineapple, but also with the brut of the bacon. Can't wait to try!