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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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This recipe sound amazing. Going to try this.
Enjoy!
I made this tonight and everyone loved it
Paired it with some roasted green beans I all but licked my plate clean. Thank you for a super simple recipe!
Happy to hear everyone loved it! Roasted green beans sound delicious as a side dish!
What’ should the oven temp be set on I guess I missed that
Bake this, uncovered, in the preheated oven at 400 F for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
I’m sorry everything boils down to “calories in and calories out” this dish leaves little else during the day.
The keto diet doesn’t count calories. It’s a low carb diet not a low calorie diet. And yes you do lose weight.
Are them calories per piece of chicken our for all four pieces. Lord have mercy that's allot of calories. I don't think it's per piece I'm just checking. I'm on a huge calories diet not keto.
The calorie count is per 1 serving.
OMG this is great and so easy and so easy to make the fact that it is keto is just an extra added bonus
Yes, it's a super easy recipe with lots of flavor!
Totally amazing love this chicken
Thank you! 🙂
Could you freeze?
Yes, this freezes well. Freeze it in an air-tight container or freezer bags.
Deliciousness!
What about using already cooked chicken & bacon? What do you think on how much time to melt the cheeses?
I will really depend on your oven. If the chicken has already been cooked, then just add the cooked bacon and the cheeses and bake it in the preheated oven at 400 F for about 10 minutes then quickly broil it.
Hey! Can I save half in the fridge so that i can eat the rest tomorrow? Or no? 🙂
Absolutely! Place the leftovers in an air-tight container and refrigerate until the next day.
Can this dish be made ahead of time and frozen before cooking?
Have made this recipe twice now! The whole family loves it. I added Texas Pete to the second batch and it really added a nice kick!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
I absolutely loved this recipe!! This was so good! I’m definitely making this for my friends and family.
Very happy to hear that! Enjoy!
Do you marinade the chicken first?
No, just added all the ingredients on top of the chicken and baked it!
I need to pass this recipe on to my youngest sister. It is one of her favorite things!
I am so happy to hear that!