Aloha Chicken

I would certainly prepare this again, but only with a few modifications. First, it was way too salty. I will begin by at cutting the garlic salt back by at least half. Also, the ketchup flavor is too prominent; I will decrease the ketchup next time. With these modifications, I suspect I would rate the recipe at least a four--maybe a five. The flavor is decent and could be far better.

My tropical themed event went very well and my guests loved this dish! I do, too! I used Ginger Juice, less onion powder as I spread onions and colorful sweet peppers on the bottom of my coconut oiled baking dish. Less ketchup and more brown sugar. Used fresh garlic and not garlic salt. Rice vinegar instead of cider vinegar. Marinated the raw boneless chicken breasts for 1 hour in vinegar mixture. Greased deap dish stoneware, placed peppers and onions, then chicken and topped with pineapple mixture. Baked at 350 for 45 minutes.

Fabulous! I used boneless, skinless chicken breast and reduced the cooking time to 30 minutes total. I also used a lot less brown sugar, as the pineapple makes this dish plenty sweet already.

Good. Easy to make. I reviewed other comments before making it. Here are my suggestions. Full portion of ketchup is probably too much, but 1/2 is not enough (bottom line - to taste). I used boneless/skinless thighs - drained most of the fat/liquid off b4 adding the sauce. Also brushed both sides up front (double the vinegar/spice mix, use low sodium soy - skip the garlic salt, use powder or fresh).

I used chicken breasts instead of bone-in chicken and baked it on a bed of veggies as someone suggested earlier. Then I served it over white rice. Everyone loved the mixture of tastes! The meat was very tender and juicy. My family said they especially liked the pineapple - my mother said that she normally doesn't like pineapple, but it was good in this dish. We're definitely going to make this again, especially since it was relatively easy and simple to make.

Great tasting and very easy to make. The chicken almost melts in your mouth, and the rich mixture of the ginger & soy combined with the sweetness of the pineapple five it a wonderful flavor.

This was excellent. The only changes I made were: I only used three quarters cup of ketchup and because I found the sauce to be a little runny, I added 2 tbsp of cornstarch and water during the last 10 minutes of cooking, it thickened the sauce beautifully. My family were inhaling the aromas before supper and could hardly wait to eat. No one was disappointed. Thanks for an easy and tasty recipe. Will be serving again in the near future.

I have made this recipe twice with excellent results. My husband loves it. I did modify the recipe some as I did not have all the ingredients listed. Instead of ketchup I used a can of tomato soup and white wine vinegar instead of cider vinegar. I also used low sodium soy sauce and garlic powder not garlic salt. Also instead of basting the chicken with the soy sauce mixture - I mixed ALL the ingredients in one bowl and covered the chicken in it. Much easier! Turned out great and it will be a regular in our house! Thanks for the recipe!

I loved it. It reminded me and a few others of L&L. great stuff.

I added some chili sauce, it gave it some pep.

Fast & easy dinner. I used chicken breast, since that's what I had. I also used teriyaki sauce instead of soy sauce.

I made this a couple nights ago. I was searching for a "sweet" chicken recipe that I had all the ingredients for. At first I was a little leery of the ketchup addition, however, once the dish was complete and we all tasted it, it is a real winner and not hard to prepare at all. I'm a mother of 3 children, ages 2 up to 8, and I have a husband who should be a food critic. They all enjoyed it, even my 4 year old little boy who turns his nose up at anything with vegetables in it. This was a great dish for the cold weather we're having here. I served it over jasmine rice. Easy prep and it satisfied my whole family.

This was alright. My son liked it, but my stepson did not. It was too ketchup-y. I was hoping to recreate a hawaiian chicken recipe for my bf and this wasn't it.

The reviews fr this recipe were very mixed. My family and I liked it, although my husband said he would have liked it spicy, so next time I will add some dried crushed peppers to his chicken.

I rated this 3 stars because it was edible, but we did not like it at all. Way too vinegary and the sauce just wasn't very good.

This was a big hit with the whole family. I used some of the suggestions in other reviews, reducing the garlic salt by 1/2, and the reducing the ketchup by 1/4. It turned out excellent!

SUPER DELICIOUS.....and I've had Aloha chicken in Hawaii !!

i thought this was a great variation for an asian chicken recipe, and my only change was boneless/skinless chicken breasts. my children didn't like it as much as i thought they would, but what do they know - ha!

Very flavorful, a bit heavy on the soy sauce and salty taste, but a little adjusting of the ingredients will make that better for me, no complaints from the family.

The kids love it!!

this was amazing. I served it at a bridal shower and had to give the recipe to everyone. Big hit!

this was good, but not all that. Ketchup taste was very over powering. I will change that and try it again.

not very good, kinda weird tasting

I made this with boneless, skinless chicken breast and basted both sides of the breast, cooked it for 15 minutes, applied the other sauce and cooked it for 25 more minutes. This is, by far, the best chicken I've ever had!! I served it with carrots instead of rice and we used teryaki sauce instead of soy sauce. I highly recommend this!!!!

I did not care for this recipe.

This was OK, but my familiar was not bowled over. The chicken became extremely tender though - no need for a knife.

Terrific recipe, Amy! I reduced the garlic salt in the marinade, and doubled the sauce recipe as others suggested. I made another couple of modifications to use things that I had on hand. I used a 29 oz. can of sliced peaches instead of the pineapple. ( sorry Amy, a great recipe like this always inspires me to adlib, and I didn't have pineapple! ) I reseved the peach syrup, as others had said that their sauce was too runny. I also chucked in the last 2 ozs. of a jar of mango / pineapple salsa, and a dab of cranberry & fig preserves. When you have dabs of jelly lurking in the fridge, this is a great type recipe to use them up! One other tweak that I did was to add a couple of dashes of worcestershire and a couple of generous squirts of hot chili sauce, as we love things sweet AND spicy. You can usually find hot chili sauce in the chinese food section of your grocery store. It's a very flavorful sauce that isn't real hot unless you use too much! Served this over a bed of white rice and, oh mama, dat's tasty!

This was not good! We even cut back the cider vinegar because of the reviews, but it was still TOO MUCH! I think I would try maybe basalmic vinegar and only 1 tablespoon. Maybe that would be better. I also even added a tablespoon of honey thinking it would help balance the vinegar, but that wasn't enough to do the trick. I will NOT be recommending this to anyone. Now I am stuck with another meal of this.

Definitely too ketchupy.

Excellent

I thought the recipe had no real flavor except for being salty.I als cut back on the salt like suggested by the other reviewers and still very salty.

Instead of garlic salt, I used fresh minced garlic. This was good, but really sweet. I think it could use fresh onion and maybe fresh ginger paste as well as cutting back on the sugar just a touch. I'd like to play with this recipe a bit, see if I can't make it better.

This recipe was absolutely delicious, at the end it says to leave in for 30 minutes, and i took it out in 20 so it was extra juicy, but fully cooked. Everybody had seconds!

Even the kids liked it. My little one even ate the pineapples (which she doesn't like).

tasty. i only substituted the garlic salt for garlic power based on earlier suggestions. i thought it was a wee pinch of "something" from being perfect (maybe more salt). my wife felt it was perfect just the way it was prepared.

too much ketchup called out.

I love this recipe it's delicious!! But I did do some changes like recommended by other reviews. I used a little bit less ketchup than the recipe said and I used real onion instead of powder. DO NOT USE CIDER VINEGAR! It smells really bad, I tried rice vinegar instead and only one tbs. It was really good. My mom and dad loved it. I will definitely make this again.

I have to say that my husband will eat anything and he wouldn't eat this. The cider over powered and gave it a not so pleasant smell and taste. Leaving out the cider makes this a great dish. Full of flavor and taste when it mixes with the juices of the chicken.

I thought this was great! A perfect blend of flavors! Not too sweet, not too tangy. Just right! Followed the recipe to the "T" including the bake time. The meat came out very tender and the suace was very flavorful! Very simple and tasty dish. The crushed pineapple leaves a very pretty presentation! :) This was enjoyed by the whole family including my aunt who had joined us for dinner that night.

Very good...served it over white rice. This dish smelled delicious as it cooked. I used boneless, skinless breasts. I used low sodium soy sauce, used fresh minced garlic, omitted the onion powder, and added crushed red peppers. Next time I'll bake it on top of green peppers and onions. Really tasty and the man liked it too.

I made a few minor substutions with this recipe to suit what I had on hand and I had ZERO leftovers!! To start with I used bone in chicken breasts, which did require a longer total cooking time. I only cooked it for the first round of the saucesless bake to help keep the breasts from being too dry. I was short on ketchup so I made up the difference with a small can of tomato sauce like you would use for chili and a few odd spices for flavor and I also added a can of mandarin oranges! My husband who HATES pineapple begged me for seconds!! I will definately make this again and again, of course, I'll have to double it from now on!

this is a good recipe that only requires a couple of modifications. use tomato paste instead of ketchup and white wine vinegar instead of cider vinegar, that way the rest of the ingredients arent overwhelmed. i baked the chicken on a bed of onions and red peppers and it was delicious. i served it over rice but i think i'd like it in a wrap better. thanks for a great weeknight dinner!

Family didn't like this very much. The sauce was too runny. It was like water. I probably won't make this again.

This recipe is good, but not as presented, that is for sure. Take a real good look at this -- 1 tablespoon onion powder 2 tablespoons garlic salt Heavens! A tablespoon! With soy sauce, too? I knew this would be too salty, so I switched to 1 teaspoon each of onion powder and garlic powder (not salt). Then I used low salt soy sauce. Even then it was rather salty. Think next time I'll use minced garlic and onion instead. I also saw the cook time was ridiculous. It should only take about 30 minutes at that temp to cook bites of chicken. I basted 7 minutes each side and then cooked for 20 minutes with the topping. I still think I could drop the basting to 5 a piece. It sounds like this recipe was not only misprinted, but with the cook time and amount of ingredients, I think it was originally for a whole chicken pieced out. I also used pineapple chunks which I mashed up a bit, so that there would still be chunks which my kids love. Next time I will probably use those new shaped pineapples -- they're kind of between chunks and crushed. Once I made the necessary changes (and this was sheer guessing) it was kind of fun.

I substituted garlic powder for the garlic salt and added a touch of table salt in it's place, which worked out very well.

I opted to cook this in my crockpot and it was so easy. This is a great dish, with great flavor. Bright white rice add nice color contrast to the finished dish.

this wasn't bad but it wasnt great either. My husband didn't care to much for it. He thought it to be to sweet and I would have to agree. I probably won't make this again.

Not bad. This was a first time attempt and it came out a little sweeter than originally anticipated. I reduced the cook time by half (which made for a juicy chicken) however the sauce was a little too sweet. Fairly easy recipe and very different. Served over jasmine rice, which I also topped with the extra pineapple-soy mixture from the baking pan which gave it a complete aloha flavor!

I absolutely loved this. I did however omit the garlic salt and added 2 tsp. garlic powder. Trying to watch salt intake so with the soy and ketchup, seemed logical. I also cut the onion powder to 1 tsp. and used sliced onions and green peppers in the bottom of pan. Only had white wine vinegar in pantry, so I used that.

I agree with some of the other reviewers that the recipe had too much salt. I only used part of the basting mixture instead of the entire amount. The flavor is good but very strong.

Absolutely fantastic!!! I tried it on Pork spare ribs too and it was just as great!! You have to give it a go. I changed a few things to suit my needs tho. I used drumettes. Also, instead of garlic salt, I used crushed garlic from a jar. I also used red wine vinegar.

Horrible! Never ever EVER again.

I loved this. I doubled the chicken and decreased the garlic salt to 1 tbsp. My husband and I love strong dishes and we really loved this. I served it over angel hair pasta and it was so good. My 3 year old even liked it and she is picky!

I didn't care for this recipe at all. You REALLY have to like the pinapple whith chicken flavor to enjoy it. I won't make it again.

This was a great change from regular baked chicken and the kids didn't even break out the ketchup with this one! Great hawaiian taste!

The Staff at Allrecipes has modified this recipe; the chicken ingredient now lists '4 pounds chicken thighs', but there is also a description note pointing out that any bone-in pieces can be used. The larger amount of chicken reflects the original submission and improves the recipe. Happy Cooking!

Really good.

i followed a lot of the suggested changes in this recipe. we were very unimpressed. i didn't even save the leftovers.

We all really liked this. I noted that some reviewers said it was too salty and I wonder if that might be your garlic salt. I have two different brands in my pantry: one brand lists 237 mg sodium per quarter teaspoon and the other brand lists over 500 mg in the same amount! Obviously, the two tablespoons called for in the recipe will be dramatically different depending on the amount of salt in your garlic salt. I used half the saltier garlic salt and half plain garlic powder. It was a fine salt level for us. Normally I brine my chicken before cooking, and in that case I'd use just garlic powder and skip the salt altogether. Also, I felt like i had too much pineapple mixture for four pounds of chicken. I used it all, but it just seemed like half as much would be fine. All in all, a great, easy, tasty dish!

I liked it, the picky kids liked it. I would have to say it does need some changes to make it really good. Way less garlic salt, less ketchup, less soy sauce. Then it should be really close to perfect!

My chicken was already in the oven when I started reading the reviews. Luckily, I had already substituted garlic powder and cut it to 1/3 the amount called for, and reduced the ketchup to about half. I also used rice vinegar instead of cider vinegar, it worked fine. My family didn't rave about it or anything but it was okay. If I make it again, I'll add chopped green peppers and take the skin off the chicken.

Probably won't eat again. Just didn't care for the spices.

I have to agree this is not a very good recipe, once I started basting I knew there would be a problem. I ended up basically boiling the chicken in pineapple juice and the "spices" that were in this recipe for about 30 minutes, then I dumped it out and let the chicken cook in the "sweet and sour sauce" with pineapple...all was not lost =)

This is an outstanding recipe! Great flavor, not overpowering or too sweet.

I used less ketchup than the recipe called for and I added two green peppers chopped in medium pieces.

The recipe ends up way too salty for our tastes. I'd suggest cutting down on the garlic salt and soy sauce and replace it without something else.

I would describe this as interesting. . . I did not have all the ingredients on hand and made substitutions. I used fresh pineapple and ginger garlic paste for ginger powder. I also used chicken breast.

We really enjoyed this chicken dish! I was looking for something new and had all the ingredients. I used boneless, skinless chicken thighs (4 to serve two) and cooked them on a raised rack for the first two 15 minute bakes-then finished them in the sauce,(half recipe),in a casserole dish. When finished,the sauce was just the right thickness to stick to the chicken. This flavor was very rich-I might use a little less sugar next time-OR use unsweetened pineapple and juice. Substituted fresh green onion for onion powder in the basting liquid.

I think the proportions on this recipe are way off. I only put in half the garlic salt and it was still VERY salty. I would not make it again.

I was not too impressed by this recipe. I lowered the amount of ketchup and it still had a strong tomato taste. I was looking for a sweet/sour taste.

Tasted great!! The topping was so fabulous that we are going to try it on other meats.

I used this recipe with boneless chicken breasts. Cook the breasts on each side for 15 minutes with the mixture in step 2 - and then I put the chicken into a foil bag and put the pineapple/soy mixture in as well and bake for 25 mintues. Very yummy!

DH and my kids really enjoyed this dish - Will definatly use again!

I too would cut back on the garlic salt, maybe even try using garlic powder. Very very salty, but overall nice flavor if you cut back the salt

We were not particularly impressed. It seems like the recipe is trying to be a creative sweet & sour chicken dish. It falls short!

this is a wonderful recipe.Easy to make,with a great taste that does remind me of Hawaii!!! The entire family enjoyed it.

great tasting and awesome with a little wine.

This was horrible! I could not even swallow one bite.

I did not like this recipe the way it is... it was way too salty. I made some changes. Instead of ketchup, I used one jar of spagetti sauce, one can of pineapple bits, a 1/4 tsp of garlic salt, 1/4 teaspoon of cloves instead of ginger and a couple dashes of soy sauce. I then added chicken legs and covered it; cooked it on top of the stove on medium heat for an hour. I like this recipe because it is so flexible! You can adjust it to suit your own personal taste!

I try to limit the salt intake for my family so I modified this recipe a bit by cutting the soy sauce in half and using garlic powder instead of garlic salt. It came out nummy!!

I liked the flavor, but my husband did not.

I decided to try this since we've been to Hawaii a half dozen times and I also had all ingredients on hand. I wasn't too impressed. The chicken was very tender, but like other reviews, the cider was a bit much. If I did decide to make again I would decrease the cider to 1 tbs. and also decrease the amount of ketchup. I recommend serving over white rice, since the flavor is a little bold.

My husband and I thought this was delicious but it didn't go over well with the kids. I omitted the garlic salt and used fresh garlic to cut back on sodium. I also used the crock pot but I think it would be better in the oven, thicker sauce. Gonna try it again, it was good, something different!

I took this dish to a church potluck. I altered it by puting a little less salt and vinegar. Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. Goes great with rice.

Not a hit with my picky kids.

The sweet and sour sauce was delicious and the chicken was really easy to make. It took a little less time to cook, at least in my oven. Try checking the chicken after about 8-10 minutes--then add the pineapple sauce mixture and continue to cook.

I loved this recipe. I followed it exactly as directed and my boyfriend and I loved how it turned out. I will definitely make this again!

My husband LOVED this recipe. I used 4 chicken breast and reduced the ketchup and garlic salt by half. This is great for pot lucks!

Very good recipe. I left my chicken breasts whole and they were a little on the dry side. I would cut it up as the recipe indicates.

I made this for my husband. He said it was good but the cider vinegar was a little to overpowering. Next time I will only add a little of that. I would recomment low-sodium soy sauce. It was yummy over white rice. Chicken is always fun to cook with. This was a recipe you either love it or hate it. I will have to alter the ingredients next time if I want to make this recipe again.

suggestion: skip the ketchup/pinapple sauce and just use the marinade. The sauce was WAY too Ketchupy!! The ketchup overpowered all the other flavors.

Not the easiest dish in the world, but, MAN!, the taste! You'll eat the leftover days after the chicken is long-since disappeared.

I didn't like it at all, but my husband did. He said he would eat it again if I made it. It was pretty easy so I'm sure I will.

I had wish I read the reviews before I made this recipe! I agree that it was way too salty and way too ketchupy. Next time I would cut those in half. We are wondering what we should do with the leftovers!

Moist and tasty :) Adding a dash of cayenne pepper gives it a nice kick.

I have passed this recipie onto several people who love it. My daughter is a very picky eater but she likes this one.

After reading the reviews, I modified the recipe and used garlic powder instead of salt, and also halved the amount it called for. I also used about 1/4 cup of ketchup and basted for 5 minutes and cooked for 10. After these modifications the dish was delicious. I also served it over rice, which added some flavor. I did have extra sauce left over, which may make a good marinade.

looks dee-lishus! Tastes even BETTER!

Tangy/sweet. A little greasy if you leave the skin on the chicken though.