Asiago Chicken with Bacon Cream Sauce - tender and moist chicken breast cooked with lemon, garlic, bacon, in a delicious Asiago cheese cream sauce.
This is one of the best ways to cook chicken breast - chicken will always come out tender and never dry, thanks to the sauce! Asiago cheese has a very strong and particular flavor, so if you love this cheese, do try it in this creamy bacon sauce with chicken. It's amazingly flavorful!
How to make asiago chicken:
In recipes like this one, I like to use small chicken breasts or chicken breast halves, which means halving each chicken breast in half before cooking. This ensures even cooking and reduces total cooking time, thus preventing the chicken from drying out.
So, to make this asiago chicken, first, season the chicken breasts generously with salt and pepper and brown them in the skillet. Then, cooke the chicken breast halves in chicken broth, lemon, garlic, bacon until fully cooked:
Next, add cream and shredded Asiago cheese:
Your Asiago Chicken with Bacon Cream Sauce is ready! So easy and super delicious!
Asiago Chicken with Bacon Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb chicken breasts (4 small chicken breasts, or 2 large chicken breasts halved)
- 1 ½ tablespoons vegetable oil
- salt and pepper
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 8 slices bacon , cooked and drained of fat, chopped
- ½ lemon sliced
- 1 cup half and half
- ½ cup asiago cheese shredded
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- Generously season the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet. Cook chicken breasts on medium-high heat - about 2 minutes on each side, to brown a bit. Chicken doesn't have to be cooked through - you'll continue cooking it later. Remove the chicken from the skillet.
- Add minced garlic to the same skillet - cook on medium heat for about 30 seconds, scraping the bottom of the pan. Deglaze the pan with the small amount of chicken stock. Add the remaining chicken stock (total of 1 cup).
- Add half the bacon (cooked, fat should be drained off, and chopped into small chunks) to the chicken broth.
- Add the chicken back to the pan, on top of bacon and in the chicken broth. Arrange 5 thin lemon slices around chicken breasts - and cook, simmering on low heat, covered, for about 20 minutes, until the chicken is completely cooked through, and is no longer pink in the center.
- After the chicken is completely cooked, remove it from the skillet. Remove lemon slices from the skillet - it's very important that you remove them now, do not leave them in for the sauce otherwise it will be too sour. Add 1 cup half and half to the skillet. Bring to boil and mix everything well, scraping from the bottom. Add ½ cup shredded Asiago cheese and stir to melt completely, about 30 seconds. Immediately reduce to simmer, add chicken breasts back to the skillet and reheat.
- To serve, spoon some of the sauce over the chicken breasts, and sprinkle with the remaining chopped bacon and chopped parsley.
Nutrition
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This was really good! I added sliced mushrooms and used white wine to de-glaze the pan. I served it with rice and Julia's garlic parmasan green beans (which I could probably make a meal out of) I did add the little bit of cornstarch that was suggested in the comments, and my sauce was thick and flavorfull.
Lois, thank you for sharing this detailed feedback! ❤️ I love the addition of mushrooms and white wine! And, I love your choice of side dish, too. You have great taste! 🙂 🙂
Side dish - Garlic Parmesan Green Beans
This recipe is excellent !! I will definitely make it often.
Debbie, I am so happy you enjoyed this dish - thank you for the comment!
Thank you for your delicious recipe. My girlfriend and I cooked this for dinner today. It was awesome. We also made mashed potatoes and green beans. We are gonna make it again soon instead of wasting money at the restaurants.
I cannot bring myself to use heavy cream in recipes, no matter how good it makes it! Could you recommend another option? I need to get past my disgust and grow up, I know...for some reason using cream cheese or even sour cream doesn't bother me, but cooking milk/cream whatsoever just makes me sick to think of it. Didn't know if adding maybe 1/4-1/2 block of cream cheese might be a good replacement?
Thank you in advance!
This is an awesome recipe! So full of flavor and very easy to make. I added 1 tsp of corn starch to thicken the sauce a bit but other than that I followed the recipe exactly!! I will definitely make this again!
Thank you for this amazing recipe I’ve made this about 8 different times now my family loves this meal I double the recipe because it’s so delish my only question is why the lemon slices I’m
Not complaining at all because I follow this recipe I’m just curious as of why is all Thank you again for sharing this delicious recipe
Hi Becky! I am so flattered to hear you've made this recipe so many times - thank you for taking the time to share this wonderful feedback! 🙂
I just love the lemon flavor in a cream sauce, so that's the reasoning behind cooking the fresh lemon slices and then removing them promptly so that the sauce doesn't get too sour.
Found this recipe years ago and finally made it tonight. It was simple to make and even my husband (who is a VERY picky eater) loved it! I will definitely be making this dish again.
How can I reduce the carb count and make it more Keto friendly
It seems to me it’s already keto friendly at only 8g of carbs
Heavy cream instead of Half and half would reduce carbs by 2g/serving. Using bacon with no sugar added would reduce carbs. If lemon was included in carb count, leaving it out would reduce carbs a little more.
Tried this recipe for a sick friend and it turned out awesome!!! Now everyone wants me to make it for them! So simple to make and tastes delicious!! Thank you so much!
Deborah, so glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for your kind words! 🙂
This recipe is excellent !! I will definitely make it often.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂