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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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Excellent. I have made it twice and will make again.such great flavor.
Thank you! I am very happy you have enjoyed this recipe! 🙂
I give this recipe 5+ will make this again
Thank you! 🙂
I loved this recipe! I will be making it again. I did add some finely chopped onions to it.
Glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for stopping by and sharing your wonderful comment!
This is soooo good. Thank you for sharing this recipe. The whole family loved it. I will be making this often. It is so easy but it's the best chicken recipes I have come across.
So happy to hear that! Thank you very much for such a kind comment.
Thanks for the recipe!
I love to cook and I'm always looking for new recipes for my menu, which makes me always interested in my work. Today’s my lucky day, Baked Chicken recipes is great, just follow the instructions and everything is easy, I like it. Thanks for your sharing
Really good! Easy to follow recipe, thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Could this be done in a cake pan?
Depends on the size of the cake pan. If it's large enough to fit the chicken and the rest of the ingredients without overspilling - then yes, use the cake pan! You might want to line the cake pan with the foil if you like.
So very yummy. We put pico de gallo on top for added flavor! Delicious
Adding pico de gallo sounds delicious!
Have you made this recipe in an instant pot?
This has been a favorite for us! It has been in our regular rotation of meals since I found it a couple months ago. Delicious thank you!
I am glad you've been enjoying this dish! Thank you for such a kind comment!
What’s is the serving size? I usually have about 4 oz of protein when I eat my meals
This recipe makes 4 servings (1 chicken breast with all the stuff on top - per 1 serving).
Excellent -- so, so good!
Thank you!
Love! Love! Love! This recipe, I cook it aleast once a week! My husband loves it to. I add Spaghetti sauce on the bottom of casserole dish, then put chicken on top, so DELICIOUS!
Thank you, Theresa, for your comment! So happy to hear you enjoy this recipe and have made it several times.
Was just a mess. The chicken had so much juice and made literally a soupy mess. No one was impressed and I can cook! I wish I had patted them dry, made a smaller dish and used regular cream cheese and not the one in tub. Was just a bad overall waste of ingredients