Chicken Pineapple Fried Rice Recipe

This Chicken Pineapple Fried Rice Recipe is easy to make and comes together easily with some freshly cut pineapple and leftover rice and Broiled Teriyaki Chicken Thighs. It’s as tasty as it is beautiful and has been featured on NBC’s website.

BC (before children) Date Night Inspiration

Flashback to 14 years ago, my husband and I enjoy a date night at a Thai restaurant and we ordered a Chicken Pineapple Fried Rice. Besides being delicious, the presentation is memorable: the fried rice is served in a pineapple bowl, a pineapple cut lengthwise with the flesh scooped out, complete with the leafy top. It’s so beautifully presented and delicious but not something my children can safely enjoy as Thai restaurants are off-limits.

I recently published a recipe for Ginger Fried Rice and one of my sweetest friends asked for a regular fried rice recipe. I completely understand where she’s coming from because as food allergy parents we long for what we cannot have, carefree times of spontaneously ordering foods we like to eat at a restaurant rather than ordering within the boundaries of safe ingredients at an allergy aware restaurant.

I happened to have leftover brown rice, broiled chicken teriyaki thighs, and cut fresh pineapple, most of the ingredients needed for making Chicken Pineapple Fried Rice, so I’m happily obliging my sweet friend’s request for a regular fried rice recipe! You can use any kind of rice (long grain, short grain, jasmine, brown or white, but it’s important to use leftover rice that has been refrigerated overnight. Otherwise your fried rice will be a little bit soft and extra moist.

Due to limitations of what I had on hand and food allergies, I very loosely adapted a recipe from Rasa Malaysia which includes instructions for using eggs. Just so you know, a more traditional recipe might contain eggs, shrimp, cashews, fish sauce and some spices that would take some effort to find allergen free. I think this impromptu adaptation was pretty good and I love the sweet and sour flavors from the pineapple. A little bit of Red Boat fish sauce next time will give it quite an authentic taste. The recipe can be completely free of the top 8 allergens by substituting soy sauce and fish sauce with coconut aminos or other soy sauce alternatives.

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Chicken Pineapple Fried Rice Recipe

This pineapple chicken fried rice is a delight to the tastebuds as well as to the eyes. For better results, use cooked chicken and leftover fried rice that's been chilled overnight. This is a great one pot meal for 4 or a side dish for 6-8 people.

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine Asian, Thai

Keyword Chicken, fried rice, pineapple

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 490 kcal

Author Sharon Wong

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1/4 cup chopped onions
• 1 cup chopped carrots I used baby carrots to save time
• 5 broiled chicken thighs (skinless, boneless) chopped
• 2 cups chopped pineapple
• 4 cups cooked brown rice
• 1 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce or alternative
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Heat up a frying pan or wok on medium high heat (about 5 minutes).
2. Add olive oil, minced garlic and chopped onion, saute until fragrant (1 minute).
3. Add chopped carrots, chicken, and pineapple, saute until the carrots are softened (5 minutes).
4. Add the rice, breaking up any large clumps of rice.
5. Add soy sauce and stir fry until everything is heated through (3 minutes).
6. Adjust seasoning to taste and serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

I usually make a double batch of Chicken Teriyaki Thighs and save the leftovers to make fried rice. 

Want to learn how to carve a festive pineapple bowl? Read my post on how to create Pineapple Bowl happiness

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