January 8, 2020 | Last Updated on January 16, 2023 by Patricia Valbrun

These Pineapple Jerk Chicken Kabobs are a colorful and tasty meal for any season! It’s easy to make and tastes heavenly. Marinated in a pineapple jerk seasoning this recipe is perfect for spring or summer meals outdoors with family and friends!

These Pineapple Jerk Chicken Kabobs tastes like a party in your mouth! With juicy pineapple, colorful bell peppers, zucchini, and savory onion; these chicken kabobs are fresh with a kick of jerk season that helps combine all these flavors together; making this dish utterly delicious and perfect for entertaining.

Jerk Chicken Kabobs Ingredients

Making jerk chicken kabobs is one of my favorite things to do, and the best part is that you don’t need many ingredients and the ones you do can be easily found in your nearest store for a cheap price.

Here’s what you’ll need to make the perfect jerk chicken kabobs:

• 4 chicken breast cut in cubes
• 14 skewers
• 2 1/2 tbsp jerk season walkers wood
• 6 pimento seeds
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 4 garlic cloves minced
• 2 scallions
• 6 thyme springs
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 can pineapple
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• black pepper

Vegetables

• 1 Zucchini
• 1 red onion
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 orange bell pepper
• 1/2 orange bell pepper
• 12 green bell pepper
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1 tbsp jerk season walkers wood
• 1 1/2 tbsp jerk seasoning salt
• 3 pimento seeds
• 2 springs thyme
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• olive oil

How to Make Jerk Chicken Kabobs

Jerk chicken kabobs are one of the easiest recipes you’ll find, and they make the perfect appetizer for gatherings. Here’s how to make the best jerk chicken kabobs.

Preparation: Getting these Jerk chicken Kabobs together is all kinds of awesome. You can make them in a pretty pattern or personalize it. I gathered them by size and kept it going until I ran out.

Marinate: Marinating the meat helps add so much flavor! You can use any type of marinade you like but for these kabobs, we will be using jerk seasoning to give it a Caribbean vibe.

Fruit + Meat: Pineapples can be a great fruit to use with meats . It’s kind of like eating rice and chicken inside of a pineapple bowl. Yes, fruit is good with meat just like it is on pizza so just do it, pineapple with anything is wonderful!

Oven Baked vs Grilled: The struggle is real if you live up north around this time because it’s cold and just not the best time to get on the grill but that’s okay, get your ovens ready to bake these bad boys. Now, if you live further south or anywhere, where it’s warmer around the winter time, enjoy grilling these kabobs and getting that perfect grill mark that we all love.

Pretty Colors: These Oven Baked Jerk Chicken Kabobs are so colorful and pretty! They’re getting your family and friends together eye-popping Instagram worthy.

Pineapple Jerk Chicken Recipe

As for the Pineapple Jerk Chicken Kabobs recipe itself, it’s super simple. 

1. First, whip up the marinade ahead of time by combining the spices and various oils and juices. 

2. The chicken needs some time in order for the marinade to be absorbed. While the kabobs are in the oven, save the marinade to baste. You’re going to use it for the Jerk Pineapple Sauce. You can use any part of the chicken, just make sure they’re big enough to be thread.

Important: One more important thing to note, make sure you soak the skewers in advance to place them in the oven or on the grill. If they’re not soaked enough, the wooden skewers will burn.

1. Ready to heat up your oven? Proceed to thread the chicken, peppers, zucchini, onions, and pineapple on the skewers. Lay the pineapples on your baking tray to allow them to roast. Don’t forget to baste! Bake the chicken – this process will take about 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven!

What is Jerk Seasoning?

In this recipe, we used Walkers Wood Jerk Seasoning. This seasoning is a Jamaican spice blend, typically made of various spices like cayenne, paprika, cumin, cinnamon, red pepper flakes, allspice, and some sugar.

Jerk Pineapple Sauce

Jerk Pineapple Sauce is made of jerk seasoning, pineapples, cloves, garlic, onion, green onion, soy sauce, brown sugar, and all the rest of the ingredients listed below.

A Marinate is a blend of herbs and seasonings. This mixture is made to add moisture to meats, fish, etc. when baking, grilling, or frying. The longer the marinade sits, the more it allows the flavors to release and become one with each other, which helps with making this amazing Jerk Pineapple Sauce.

1. First, you want to add all the marinade that is leftover from the chicken and vegetables inside of a blender removing all the pimento seeds, trust me you do not want those pimento seeds inside your sauce.

2. Throw in those roasted pineapples to help boost the flavor and blend altogether.

3. Heat up a small pot, add honey, water, orange juice, barbeque sauce and allow to simmer and thicken. 

If you want the sauce thicker you can add cornstarch or some more pineapples. If you’re worried about the sauce being too sweet, reduce the amount of honey.

You have enough options to make it your own so enjoy! 

How To Store Chicken Kabobs

Chicken kabobs can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge. If you like to meal prep and leave everything ready before cooking, you can leave the chicken marinating overnight in a proper container and later cook it. 

Expert Tips

Want to make the best Pineapple Jerk Chicken Kabobs? Here are some tips that can help you make the tastiest chicken kabobs:

• Leave a space between the pieces of each skewer, this way the skewers will cook evenly.

• To get the most of the flavor, marinate it overnight or even longer. This will promote the marinade to seep in the meat more, giving it more flavor.

• Substitute the can of pineapple and pineapple juice into a fresh pineapple, this will give you a more authentic taste, and not only that, Pineapple is loaded with nutrients so if you want to make it more nutritious, this is the way to go.

• If you don’t like Pineapple and still want that Tropical kick, you can substitute Pineapple with Mango or Peach.

• Serve it with buttered basmati or coconut rice for a complete meal! However, if you’re not fond of rice, you can also eat it with corn on the cob.

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How did you like this recipe? Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Looking for another chicken recipe? Try this Teriyaki Chicken next!