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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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I added fresh garlic chives and onion chives from the garden as well as some fresh garlic! Layered them with the salt and pepper. Was great!! Especially if your family loves garlic as much as mine! Thanks for this great recipe!
Just finished eating ❗. The bacon, cream cheese, cheddar chicken was everything the recipe said it would be. Definitely a keeper . Will make it again. Thanks Julia
Hi and how much olive oil do I need to use for this dish?! Thank you so much for your help and time!!
Aimee
Just as much as you need to grease the dish before assembling. Maybe a tbsp or so. 🙂
This is delicious and very easy to make! I've made it once already and am going to make a double batch again today.
I made this tonight because I wanted to try something new from my usual dinner rotations. It was delicious!! I also seasoned my chicken with garlic & onion powder, and also added some salt and pepper after the cheddar cheese. My husband loved it and said to add it to the rotation!! Next time I will add pickled jalapeño. We love spice.
I would recommend covering your chicken with tin foil. When I made this the cheese got hard by the time it was done. And I used fresh shredded cheese. Other than that delicious!
Delicious!
Made this last night, it was very good. The only thing I would say is follow the cheese, I used sharp cheddar because that's what was in my fridge made it salty. But it was still bomb.
Yum! I layered it and added a can of rotel in the middle for a kick. Loved it!
This is an awesome very-easy-to-make recipe! Everyone who gets to taste it will absolutely fall in love with it. I have made this several times, and each time it is a huge hit! Never any leftovers. I add chopped green onion to it, and the taste is reminiscent of tater skins. So yummy! Thanks for sharing!!
I made this but added fresh spinach and Mushrooms and used mozzarella, extra sharp cheddar and Gorgonzola cheese♥️♥️♥️
Made this tonight and I am a happy woman it satisfied so many different areas, creamy, salty, spicy( added some cayenne) and sweet (used maple bacon) thank you for this yummy recipe!
This is delicious and has become part of the rotation at my house. I use lower fat cheeses and less of it, and real bacon bits that are lower in fat. It still tastes amazing and those bacon bits crisp up beautifully. (Had to go low fat since we like to have it once a week or so)
This was delicious! I added a little garlic powder to the chicken w/ the salt & pepper. I used chicken tenderloin since I didn't have chicken breats. Cooked for 22 mins on 400. Cheese came out a little burnt. I would recommend covering it for the first 10 mins. Very tasty!
Trying this tonight added broccoli and parmesan cheese. Can’t wait to eat it. Smells DELISH!