Chicken with pineapple and 'nduja from Mezcla: Recipes to Excite (page 112) by Ixta Belfrage

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    Can substitute oranges for tangerines

  • Schooffiecooks on March 27, 2026

    Made a simply version of this dish, because it was a dinner for one. But still delicious!

  • MmeFleiss on February 18, 2026

    This kinda reminded me of al pastor but with chicken. I'm interested in trying this again but subbing the 'nduja with Mexican chorizo.

  • patioweather on September 19, 2025

    My only regret is not having more carbs on hand to sop up the incredible sauce. There are many steps, making it a bit fussy, but it was incredible. Our skin didn't get crispy, so I think next time we'll be more careful with how we arrange things in the pot and even wiping off the tops of the chicken before we put it in the oven.

  • pattyatbryce on July 12, 2025

    Very enjoyable. My 'nduja was fairly mild, so if I use this brand again, I'd double the amount in the dish. I also felt the sauce was too thin. Next time I'd use less liquid. But overall, I really liked it. My only change was to cook all of the onions because I don't love them raw.

  • WaterPenny on April 09, 2025

    Loved it and next time will definitely double the recipe, if not just to have a decent amount of leftovers to enjoy again.

  • Detheria on March 19, 2025

    Doubled the chicken in order to have leftovers. Doubled a lot of the ingredients but didn't need to double the pineapple. Yummy.

  • ellwell on June 20, 2024

    A little disappointing after reading the good reviews here and on Facebook. My sauce was very thin, and I felt like (even though I marinated them for 24 hrs) the marinade did not flavor the meat because it didn’t penetrate the skin. I used Ixta’s recommendation of subbing pineapple juice for the broth. Maybe that is why it was thin? Anyway, I felt it was rather bland.

  • Celia88 on May 30, 2023

    I think this was quite a small portion, it served us as two instead of four. But the recipe is absolutely delicious, will definitely make again.

  • KarinaFrancis on September 22, 2022

    This was delicious, the combination of chicken and pineapple is a winner for me, the 'nduja adds porky goodness. Very low fuss, although I should have got the blowtorch out for the pineapple

  • meggan on September 15, 2022

    I had poor quality chicken (that sounds gross as I write it) but this was still good. I would marinate in the paste a little longer and maybe use boneless to speed it up. As suggested, I blow torched the pineapple to caramelize; it was fun.

  • rachelblair on September 13, 2022

    This was delicious! I wish that I had a bigger cast iron pan so that I could double the recipe because I would have loved a second helping or leftovers. I saw that on Ixta's Instagram she had a video of the recipe where she said that if she was to write the recipe now she would use pineapple juice instead of broth so that's what I used and it was delicious.

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