BBQ Chicken Stuffed Smoked Pineapple with Spicy Quick Pickled Cabbage

Ingredients

• ½ cup red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon coconut sugar
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 4 garlic cloves, smashed
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns 
• 1 small DOLE^® Red Onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 2 small serrano peppers, minced
• ½ small head red cabbage, cored and thinly sliced
• 4 cups favorite wood chips
• 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken breast
• ½ cup barbeque sauce
• 1 large DOLE^® Pineapple3 (4-inch) wooden skewers

Directions

1. Whisk ¼ cup vinegar, sugar, salt and 1 cup water in a large bowl; add garlic, bay leaves and peppercorns. Add onion, serrano peppers and cabbage; toss. Let cabbage mixture stand at room temperature 3 hours, tossing occasionally. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to overnight before serving. Makes about 4 packed cups.
2. Cover wood chips with water in a large bowl; soak as label directs.
3. Prepare outdoor grill for indirect grilling over medium heat. Drain wood chips; place 2 cups chips in grill (in foil packet or pie tin for gas or directly on coals for charcoal). Stir chicken and ¼ cup barbeque sauce in a medium bowl; tightly enclose in 12 x 24-inch sheet of nonstick aluminum foil.
4. Cut 1-inch crosswise slice from top of pineapple; reserve. Leaving at least 1-inch pineapple flesh, core pineapple using a pineapple corer or paring knife; remove pineapple skin. Replace top of pineapple; secure with skewers.
5. Place pineapple on hot grill rack over unlit side of grill; cover and cook 1 hour or until very tender, adding remaining chips halfway through cooking. Transfer pineapple to hot grill rack over lit side of grill; brush with remaining ¼ cup barbecue sauce. Place chicken foil packet on hot grill rack over lit side of grill; cover and cook 15 minutes or until chicken mixture is heated through, turning pineapple occasionally.
6. Transfer pineapple to cutting board; remove top and fill with chicken mixture. Slice stuffed pineapple crosswise into 8 slices; serve with Spicy Quick Pickled Cabbage. 
    

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