Looking for easy baked chicken recipes? Well, go no further than this Bacon, Cream Cheese, Cheddar Chicken! What's great about this recipe? It uses basic ingredients that just about everybody loves! Everything is baked together in one casserole dish. Chicken and 2 kinds of cheese. Try it and see for yourself! This chicken bake is low carb, high fat, KETO friendly, gluten free recipe.
Perfect recipe for those nights when you don't have much time on your hands to fiddle with too many complicated ingredients. This recipe is very similar to my popular broccoli bacon cheddar chicken. Baked chicken recipes these days often include some sophisticated ingredients and complicated cooking techniques, but not here. It's a KETO friendly, low-carb, and gluten free recipe.
This Bacon, Creamy Cheese, Cheddar Chicken is simple and delicious, with the minimum prep, and everything is baked in 30 minutes, just like in this ranch chicken bake! And, if you want to make your chicken bake with ham instead, you can make ham and cheese chicken.
And, in all of these recipes you use good old casserole dish.
Substitutions
- The recipe uses chicken breasts. You can also use skinless boneless chicken thighs and follow the recipe as is.
- The recipe uses shredded Cheddar cheese. You can use also use Colby Jack cheese (combination of Colby cheese and Monterey Jack cheese).
Cooking tips
- Use small chicken breasts. If you purchased large chicken breasts, slice each one in half horizontally, to make it thinner. Or, purchase thinly sliced chicken breasts.
- The cooking time depends on the thickness of your chicken breasts. The thinner the chicken breasts are, the quicker the dish will cook. On average, the chicken should be done in 20-30 minutes.
- Bake the chicken uncovered, so that the cheese on top gets crispy.
What makes this chicken KETO friendly recipe
- This recipe contains cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, and bacon. All these ingredients have high fat, low sugar content.
- This recipe contains foods that are high in protein but low in carb, such as chicken breasts.
- There is no flour, no grains, nothing with gluten in this recipe.
Steps to make this easy baked cream cheese cheddar chicken recipe:
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Grease the bottom of the casserole dish with olive oil. Then, add chicken breasts.
Next, sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Top with cream cheese.
Next, top with chopped cooked bacon.
Finally, top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
Bake, uncovered, for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Oozing with cream cheese, this bacon cheddar chicken is so good! I hope you enjoy it and leave your review!
Related KETO Friendly Chicken Recipes
- Chicken breasts are smothered with creamed spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and bacon, and then baked in the oven: Chicken Smothered with Bacon and Creamed Spinach
- Here is another low-carb, keto-friendly, gluten free chicken breast recipe with Mozzarella cheese: Basil Pesto Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Bake
Side dishes to serve with chicken
- Cooked greens will always go great with this chicken dish. Cooked spinach, roasted asparagus, green beans, or cooked broccoli. Also, mashed potatoes or scalloped potatoes are great.
- You can also use flavored rice. Or, try this cilantro-lime rice (with or without black beans).
- Here is an excellent recipe for roasted asparagus with bacon and cheese.
- I also love these Asiago cheese roasted broccoli, they are so crunchy I usually have a hard time not eating them all by myself.
Bacon, Cream Cheese, Cheddar Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 chicken breasts (use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large chicken breasts, sliced in half, horizontally)
- salt and pepper
- 6 oz cream cheese , cold, refrigerated, and sliced into 8 slices
- 8 strips bacon , cooked, chopped
- 1 cup Cheddar cheese , shredded
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Grease the bottom of the casserole dish with olive oil. I used the the oval casserole dish measured 13 inches x 9 inches x 4 inches deep.
- Add chicken breasts to the casserole dish. Note about chicken: use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large thick chicken breasts, sliced in half horizontally each to make 4 thin chicken breasts.
- Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
- Top with cream cheese. Cream cheese should be cold, right out of the fridge, sliced into 8 thin slices.
- Top with chopped cooked bacon (drained from fat).
- Top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Nutrition
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I really want to try this but as a single person just cooking for myself can it be frozen in portions either before or after cooking.
Hi Ann! Even though I don't recommend freezing cheeses and cream, if you do have leftovers, you can freeze this AFTER COOKING (once it's cooled off).
I've made this twice now and it's AWESOME!! Super easy and very full of flavor. My husband loves this and I love how easy it is. Thank you for sharing this incredible recipe, this is in my normal rotation now.
Thank you, Kelli, I am so glad this recipe is part of your regular recipe rotation now! 🙂
Very good but so watery! Would love tips as to how to not make it so watery…
Heather, my most important tip would be to make sure that the chicken is completely thawed (if using frozen chicken) before even starting this recipe. And, do use paper towels to pat dry the raw chicken before using in in this recipe.
Also, if using refrigerated chicken, remove it from the fridge 30 minutes prior to starting the recipe and do pat it dry with paper towels.
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It was truly delicious. My husband was sick of plan chicken breasts but loved this
Sherry, so glad you both enjoyed it! ❤️ Thank you for your review and Happy New Year! ❤️
This was a quick meal after my son’s football game tonight, and they loved it! I used the ingredients, but not the measurements so I can’t say how it was following the recipe exactly, I added some herbs to the chicken when I seasoned. Thank you for sharing!
Kana, I am so glad this recipe turned out well. I have to agree with you - you don't even need to use measurements here - so simple!
My friend made this one evening. I loved it so much that I ran out and bought the ingredients the next day. Thank you.
Kim, I am so glad both you and your friend made and loved this dish! Thank you for the feedback! ❤️
I enjoyed the recipe very much and so did my kids. After dinner my daughter's both told me it was too much cream cheese for their liking. I was fairly surprised and didn't think they would have even one complaint about it. I guess I'll cut back on the cream cheese next time. I am having a hard time figuring what pairs well as a side.
Randall, this recipe will definitely work well even if you reduce the cream cheese amount in half.
You can serve this with baby new potatoes. Or, any roasted veggies: asparagus, carrots, broccoli.
Or, serve this over fine pasta, such as angel hair pasta or spaghetti.
I tried this recipe today for dinner. My husband and me are on keto diet and it is perfect for us. I served with green lives salad, very tasty. Thank you for your blog
Will the bacon burn since you pre cook it before putting it in the oven?
Kristin, no, it will not burn. You might save a few pieces of sliced bacon and add it on top of the chicken towards the end of baking time for presentation purposes.