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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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The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Awesome! Tons of flavor, tender & easy so to make. You got from my husband who is a very picky eater!!!!
That’s supposed to say 2 thumbs up from my husband!!!!
So glad the recipe was enjoyed! 🙂
I am so happy you liked this recipe! And thank you for the comment and the 5-star review! 🙂
Fabulous recipe. I used thick chicken breasts and sliced a pocket into each piece. Then I stuffed it with cream cheese, cheddar and cooked bacon. A little sprinkle of cheese and bacon on top. My grandson swears it is the best chicken ever!!
Ellen, I love your version of stuffing the chicken with cream cheese, cheddar, and cooked bacon. Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if a layer of hash browns on the bottom would work. It sounds like it would be good with and I have some.
I think it should work. The only thing is it seems that most recipes that bake hash browns as a casserole require 60 minutes of baking time. I think if you use thicker chicken breasts in this recipe (not thinly sliced) and bake this dish for a bit longer it should work just fine!
I made this dish for dinner alongside rice and a ceasar salad. The chicken was delicious. I made it exactly how the recipe listed. For the user above, make sure to Pat dry your chicken after rinsing it.
So glad you enjoyed this recipe - thank you so much for your comment! Great side dishes: rice and Caesar salad!
I cooked 4 thin chicken breasts (less than 2 inches) according to the recipe and it came out way too juicy. The juice was running throughout the pan and made the chicken super soggy. I preheated the oven to 400 and checked the chicken with a thermometer after 30 minutes. The chicken measured 170 degrees. I ised cold cream cheese like the recipe called for as well. Anyone else have runny chicken juices? And anything i can do about it? Besides that mess, the recipe was good! I would cover for the first 20 minutes then uncover for last 10 minutes so the cheddar cheese and bacon don’t get too crispy and the cream cheese melts better. You could also broil for a minute or two if cheese isnt browned enough to your liking.
Not sure what happened. Sorry to hear about all that watery stuff!
I don't know if you used chicken that's been frozen, but if the chicken is frozen, make sure to thaw it completely before using it in this recipe. And, if it's been frozen and thawed, pat it dry with paper towels to remove extra moisture.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this recipe, but I wanted something different, This recipe is amazing and so easy! My family is disappointed that there isn't any leftover and are already asking for it to be made again!
Wow, I am so flattered to hear all that! I 🙂 Glad you enjoyed this chicken recipe! And, thank you for the 5-star review! 🙂
Totally loved this recipe. Will be a staple in our home from now. Absolutely delicious. Thanks
John, I am so happy to hear that! Thanks for the comment and 5-star review! 🙂
Eezy peezy. Especially when you use the already cooked bacon and just nuke it for one minute. Was fabulous! Thank you!
Dianna, I am so glad you liked this! Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to share this positive feedback and 5-star review. I really appreciate it! 🙂
Omgosh so good.
I made it with tenderloins
And Costco bacon bits
Omgosh LOVE LOVE LOVE
my husband even said this is the go to chest chicken recipe
So happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for such an enthusiastic and positive comment!
I do weekly meal prepping. I want to try this but how do you think I should freeze it? I have a good idea but wanted to ask. It’s the cream cheese I’m feeling off about. Cream cheese is never the same after freezing it
Do you think I can add zucchini to this dish? I was going to make your baked zucchini and chicken dish, but I would like to use up some cream cheese I have in the fridge. This might be a simple question, but I don't cook often, not sure if the cream cheese and zucchini would taste okay together! 🙂
I am also not sure if zucchini and cream cheese will go well here. I think zucchini goes well with harder cheeses, such as Parmesan, and not so well with softer cheeses like cream cheese.
I bought thin chicken breasts, which were very thin and they took 25 minutes at 400 degrees on convection bake which is supposed to be faster (I started checking it at 15 minutes and added 5 minutes twice), but oh my goodness, this is sooooo delicious!! I will definitely make this again!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thanks for the comment!
Success - the whole family loved it. Thanks.
I am so happy to hear that!
This was delicious and everyone raved about it. I did slice up some jalapenos and topped the chicken and bacon before I covered them with cheese. Added just a little zing to the recipe but not much.
Delicious! Can you freeze this for later?
We love this recipe. We eat it often. Timing carries depending on chicken breast size. I was wondering if you could tell me what serving size you used for nutrition listed. If it's 1 chicken breast what is the weight?