Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza
Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza is a delicious and easy weeknight dinner! Pizza crust is topped with your favorite barbecue sauce, chopped chicken, sweet pineapple, red onion, cilantro, and mozzarella cheese before being cooked to perfection.
Pizza night is one of the easiest ways to bring everyone to the table feeling relaxed.
This Hawaiian BBQ chicken pizza builds on flavors many families already love — barbecue sauce, chicken, melty cheese and adds sweet pineapple and red onion for contrast and interest. It’s easy to customize, quick to make, and flexible enough to work for different tastes at the same table.
Whether you love pineapple on pizza, feel unsure about it, or prefer to keep it on just part of the pie, this recipe makes space for everyone.
Why this recipe works for real life
This pizza earns its place in your meal plan rotation because it’s:
- faster (and more relaxed) than ordering takeout
- built on familiar flavors kids already enjoy
- easy to customize so everyone gets something they like
It’s a great example of how one base meal can meet multiple comfort levels without turning dinner into a negotiation.
How to make this recipe
This recipe is simple to make! For the full set of directions, please scroll down to the recipe card below. This is just a general overview on how to make it to help you plan.
Bake the chicken and bacon
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with foil and grease a small baking dish.
- Add chicken to the baking dish. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Bake chicken for 22 to 25 minutes, or until cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F. Remove chicken from the oven and cut into small cubes.
- While chicken is cooking, add bacon in a single layer to the lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until browned and crispy. Remove bacon from the oven and crumble into small pieces.
*Recipe note: If you’d like to grill the chicken instead: Preheat grill to medium heat. Add chicken to the grill. Grill for 10 minutes before flipping and cooking another 8 to 10 minutes, or until cooked through to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
Assemble the pizza
- To assemble the pizza, roll pizza dough out until it’s 12 inches in diameter. Place it on a greased pizza stone or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush olive oil all over the top of the dough, from edge to edge.
- Pour BBQ sauce in the center of the dough. Using the back of a spoon, spread the sauce around the dough, leaving ½-inch of space from the edge.
- Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top.
- Then add the diced chicken and crumbled bacon.
- Add pieces of pineapple and red onion throughout.
- Bake the pizza for 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro just before serving.
Storage and reheating information
This pizza is best when it is served fresh from the oven.
But on the chance that you have leftovers, you can store them in an airtight container or ziptop bag in the fridge for up to 2 days.
To reheat, reheat in a 350 oven for about 5-10 minutes, until the cheese is melty again, or in an airfryer. Do not reheat in the microwave or the pizza crust will become soggy.
When the kids want to help:
One of the reasons homemade pizza works so well for families is how easy it is to involve kids. They can:
- help roll out the dough
- spread sauce
- sprinkle cheese
- choose toppings for their section of the pizza
When kids have a hand in building dinner, they’re often more willing to sit with it even if they don’t eat every topping.
Making this work for different ages
This recipe is easy to adapt at the table:
- Make one pizza with different topping sections or allow kids to make their own mini versions
- Serve toppings on the side for hesitant eaters
- Let kids choose “their” slice
Meals like this work because they’re familiar, flexible, and a little bit fun. Pizza night doesn’t have to be perfect to be meaningful — it just has to invite everyone to the table.
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Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Grease a small baking dish.
- Add chicken to the baking dish.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Bake chicken for 10 to 15 minutes,and then add bacon in a single layer to the lined baking sheet and place that in the oven, too.
- Bake for 10 to 15 an additional minutes or until the bacon is browned and almost crispy and the chicken has reached an internal temperature of 165 F.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Crumble the bacon into small pieces. Dice the chicken into bite sized cubes.
- To assemble the pizza, roll pizza dough out until it’s 12 inches in diameter.
- Place it on a greased pizza stone or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Brush olive oil all over the top of the dough, from edge to edge.
- Pour BBQ sauce in the center of the dough. Using the back of a spoon, spread the sauce around the dough, leaving ½-inch of space from the edge.
- Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top.
- Then add the diced chicken and crumbled bacon.
- Add pieces of pineapple and red onion throughout.
- Bake the pizza for 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro just before serving.
- Cut into 8 slices and enjoy.
Nutrition
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I love adding pineapple to pizza, and making it with bbq sauce instead of marinara was such a good idea. I can’t wait to make this again.
Very tasty, simple recipe. Grills beautifully – I use deboned chicken thighs & it rivals L & L Hawaiian BBQ at a fraction of the cost. Easy to make & yummy! Great recipe
Wow.
That looks so good.
Making this on Saturday for sure. Yum!!
Ooh, I like the sound of that! I thought it was going to go to a pineapply place but that sounds suitably Hawaiian, too 🙂
Yum!!! Love these flavors! We use a very similar marinade for wings but this is a healthier option. Will do!