Teriyaki Chicken from Costco

[canyonwalker]

A few weeks ago Hawk and I bought a package of "Hawaiian Style Chicken" at Costco. It's pre-cooked chicken in a package with pineapple teriyaki sauce; we'd just need to heat and eat. We find heat-and-eat meals to be a hit-or-miss proposition. We gave this one a try, and it was a hit.



The precooked chicken and sauce come in a vacuum-sealed bag. Per the instructions I separated out the chicken for cooking. I decided to cook it on the bbq grill. I used low heat to prevent the sugary sauce covering the chicken from burning. That led to the bigger pieces of chicken taking about 20 minutes to heat through vs. the 15 minutes recommended on the package. No problem; I'd much rather wait 5 extra minutes for food well prepared than get hasty, haphazard results.

While the chicken was on the grill I poured the remaining sauce into a saucepan and heated it on the stove. Once the meat was done I poured some of the heated sauce back over the chicken and reserved the rest for a gravy boat.



We served the chicken with some heat-and-eat sticky rice... which coincidentally also comes from Costco! (We bought it on a different trip months ago.)

Overall the meal was pretty tasty. The chicken heated through well, and the sauce was sweet without being cloyingly so. I'd had teriyaki chicken at a Panda Express the day before, and this sauce tasted better than the restaurant's! In terms heat-and-eat meals being hit-or-miss, this one was a hit.

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