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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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We added broccoli in place of the bacon and it was delicious!
I made this tonight and it was a hit -Everything I look for in a recipe - quick, low-carb, and delicious! I will definitely add this one to my list of 'faves'. Thank you
Easy, quick and delicious!
Thank you!
My 12-year-old made this using American cheese (her fav) and it turned out great! Thanks for sharing this recipe. I am sharing it on my own website http://www.thegypsyprofessional.com (and giving you credit, of course)! Thanks again!
I tried the Bacon cream cheese cheddar chicken and it was delicious! I took advice of others and put cheddar in about last five minutes - turned out great. I also used Bacon pieces instead of cooking bacon to make it even quick and easier and worked great! I will be adding this to my recipe cards
Thank you, Janet! Glad you liked it! 🙂
My husband and I decided to make this as our children all love chicken, cheese, and bacon. This was a total success. I cut all the breasts thin and it was amazing. The chicken was nice and juicy. The kids all ate theirs quicker than we did!
Thank you, Amy! 🙂 So glad your whole family liked this recipe! :):):)
Good recipe. Had to cover mine and cook an additional 30 minutes, but the flavor was great. Can't go wrong with bacon and cream cheese.
Thank you, Karen! Glad you liked it! Definitely can't go wrong with bacon and cream cheese. 🙂
Shared with my readers and pointed them here for directions. Thanks for the recipe!
Really enjoyed this recipe! I would add the cheese after cooking, the cheese got well done doing it by the recipe.
Thank you, Chris! Glad you liked it! 🙂 Yes, you can definitely add cheddar cheese towards the end. I just piled everything together at the same time for simplicity and it worked great for me!
Didn't care for it... it sounded great but one noted when making it .... also I'd suggest covering it for the first 15 minutes to keep the cheese from drying out
this was a great dinner!!! yum....
Thank you! 🙂
This looks awesome and trying it tonight, for those asking nutrition details, I found a web site you can cpy and paste ingredients ito and it gives all the info.
https://www.verywell.com/recipe-nutrition-analyzer-4129594 . Try it out, I have found it very helpful
Thank you
Don't see the nutrition information..how many carbs per serving?.. I'm counting the carbs in dishes...staying under 20 carbs a day..so each carb is critical in the count.. I've lost 30 lbs so far..still going!!!
You're killing your brain by taking in such a small carb amount. Weight loss isn't worth brain cells dying.
It'd be nice if people did research before posting. Low carb high fat is healthy. The carb count on this meal would be very low. My app counts it as 2 net carbs from the cream cheese.
Maybe it's not up to op to research. Try making an effort on your own like a grown up
This sounds yummy and I'll be making it tonight. I was wondering if you know the calorie count in a serving? I'm trying to keep track of my caloric intake and I am not very good at figuring it out with a homemade recipe. Thanks so much!
Hi Julia, this would fit perfectly in Food on Friday: June under the bacon theme. Hope you bring it on over. Cheers from Carole's Chatter