Honey & Pineapple Oven Baked Chicken

It's always hard to bake a whole chicken and keep it from becoming tasteless and dry. This recipe is my secret to soft, fall off the bone baked chicken.

Honey & Pineapple Oven Baked Chicken

What you need:

- whole chicken

- 1 can of pineapple cubes

- 1/8 cup honey

- minced garlic (1 tablespoon)

- basil

- seasoning (black pepper, garlic salt, salt, crushed red pepper flakes, poultry seasoning)

1. Preheat the oven to 475F

2. Place whole chicken (breast side down) on a casserole dish lined with aluminum foil

3. Pour pineapple juice from can liberally over the whole chicken and onto casserole dish

4. Cover chicken with spices, seasoning and minced garlic

5. Stuff the chicken with pineapple cubes. Spread the remaining pineapple cubes and juice all around the chicken

6. Cover with aluminum foil

7. Cook at 475F for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, remove foil covering and cook at 450F for an additional 45 minutes

8. When it's done cooking, use pineapple juice all around casserole dish and spoon over whole chicken

9. Drizzle honey all over the top of chicken

* Outcome is sweet and super soft chicken. The pineapple cubes inside the chicken and in the outside are what contribute to this.

* You can add a side of sweet chili Asian sauce or sriracha if you want

(Uncooked)

(Cooked) - Darker spots are from areas that had more black pepper and basil - not burned areas