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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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Fantastic dish! Love the added crunchiness of the cheese. Quick and easy for non-cooks like me. Having with a strawberry rose salad kit tonight. This is a definite go-to recipe!
My family really enjoyed this!
This was so delicious . Just would use less salt next time.
Have mine in the oven, mixed goat cheese with cream cheese and fresh basil, topped with bacon and then fresh tomatoes.
This was amazing! We added frozen broccoli to it as well and it was so good! Would use a seasoning salt as well next time for a little added flavor but this was an excellent dish!
Can I rap the bacon around the chicken instead
Made this tonight and it was awesome! Everybody including my very picky ten year old ate it. They were begging for more!!
I made this tonight and was delish! I topped the bacon with some fresh sliced mushrooms and whipped up some low carb honey mustard for dipping. Will definitely make again. Thank you!!!
Will it taste the same if made on a baking sheet ? I am planning to make a large amount.
i wouldn't. seems to me there would be more liquid than a shallow baking pan can handle. JMO
Can you freeze this ?
This was delicious- even my picky 3 year old likes it!!
I haven't tried this recipe yet, but it's on the menu for tomorrow. Hubby is diabetic and believes you can never have too much cheese on something. My question--is the 602 calories for the 4 chicken breasts? The nutrition info did not include a serving size.
Melany, When I added the ingredients that I ate to my fitness pal it calculated 634 calories, that was 1 4 oz chicken breast, 1.5 oz cream cheese, 2 strips bacon, and 1/4 c shredded cheddar.
Where has this recipe been?!?!? Extremely delicious and easy to make! Super excited to add this recipe to my weekday dinner rotation! Thank you!
I made this tonight and it was AMAZING! Both kids and husband devoured it. This is definitely going into our rotation. I sauteed onions and red peppers and served on top.
Absolutely love this recipe. I precooked the bacon. Then I put salt, pepper, and garlic on both sides of raw chicken. Cooked it in the oven until no longer pink while that was cooking the cream cheese was softening; I chopped up the bacon and added chopped scallions and mixed both items with the cream cheese. I topped the chicken with the cream cheese and baked a little longer, then added the cheddar cheese and baked until the cheese was a little crispy. I have made this dish before, but whatever this method was, it came out so much better!