Honey Teriyaki Chicken with Ripe Pineapple Spears and Black and White Rice Balls

• 2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 teaspoon salt eyeball it
• 1 cup long grain rice one rounded cup
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds black, toasted white sesame seeds may be substituted
• 4 each chicken breasts skinless
• 4 each chicken thighs, boneless, skinless skinless
• 1 x vegetable oil for drizzling
• 1 x salt and black pepper to taste
• 1 cup chicken broth, low salt or water
• 1 inch ginger root peeled and chopped
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil toasted
• 4 each scallions, spring or green onions thinly sliced
• 1 each pineapple ripe

1. Preheat a grill pan or large griddle over medium high heat.
2. Bring water to a boil in a small covered pot.
3. Add butter, salt and rice to the pot.
4. Return the water to a boil.
5. Reduce heat to simmer and replace cover.
6. Simmer 18 minutes and remove rice from heat.
7. Take the lid off the pot to cool rice a bit.
8. Scoop rice into balls with an ice cream scoop and your hands.
9. Dampen hands with water to work with rice if it is very sticky.
10. Set rice balls on a plate and sprinkle with black sesame seeds.
11. While your rice is cooking, lightly coat chicken with oil, salt and pepper.
12. Place chicken on hot grill and cook 6 minutes on the first side.
13. While chicken is cooking, bring chicken broth and ginger to a boil.
14. Stir in honey.
15. When honey has dissolved into broth, add teriyaki sauce and sesame oil and reduce heat to simmer.
16. Turn chicken and coat liberally with honey teriyaki sauce using a basting brush.
17. Cook chicken 4 minutes, turn again and baste liberally again with sauce, then cook 2 minutes longer.
18. Remove chicken to a plate.
19. Garnish chicken with sliced scallions.
20. While chicken cooks on the second side, peel and cut a ripe pineapple into 8 spears.
21. Cut off top and bottom of pineapple.
22. Set pineapple upright and trim away skin in strips from top to bottom.
23. Halve pineapple lengthwise and quarter each 1/2, lengthwise.
24. The core is edible, but may be trimmed if you wish.
25. Pineapple can be very acidic.
26. Spears set in cold water for just 1 minute will keep the fruit from stinging your lips when it is eaten.
27. Serve with chicken and rice balls

water, butter, salt, long grain rice, sesame seeds black, chicken breasts skinless, chicken thighs, vegetable oil, salt, chicken broth, ginger root, honey, teriyaki sauce, sesame oil, scallions, pineapple

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/honey-teriyaki-chicken-ripe-pin-48603 (may not work)