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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Delicious and easy! My family loved it. Thank you so much!
Liz, so glad this was a winner!
This was so delicious. I have passed the recipe on to my kids. I don't really like to cook but this will be my new go-to when I have guests.
Alison, thank you for your wonderful review and 5-stars! 🙂
Excellent recipe! We just finished eating, the wife is very happy. Thank you, look to try your other recipes also.
Bill, I am so happy this recipe was a success! Thank you for the feedback and the 5-star rating! 🙂
Love this recipe do you think you could use like the soft bacon bits the real ones instead of cooking bacon
That's what I use when I don't feel like cooking the bacon. I use the Oscar Meyer bacon bits or recipe pieces. Works great!
That's a great shortcut!
Milo, yes, you can use bacon bits!
We really loved this creative recipe! Will definitely be making again and again!!
Rose, that makes me really happy - thank you for such a positive comment! 🙂
I am a broke student who uses this often as it is nutritious, and cheap please post more recipes with few ingredients like these to keep cost down and health up 🙂
Thank you, Slade! I am glad you found this recipe budget-friendly and easy to make! I should really make a clear category to find these recipes more easily on my site as I have quite a few.
Here are some other recipes you might like:
https://juliasalbum.com/asparagus-chicken-bake-with-bacon/
https://juliasalbum.com/mexican-street-corn-black-bean-chicken-bake/
https://juliasalbum.com/basil-pesto-tomato-mozzarella-chicken-bake/
https://juliasalbum.com/oven-roasted-fajita-chicken-with-cheese/
https://juliasalbum.com/chicken-zucchini-bake-with-bacon/
Loved it!
This recipe is absolutely delicious! Finally, a chicken breast recipe that is not dry! My family loved it! Thank you so much!
Mary Ann, thank you so much for such a positive comment and the 5-star rating! ❤️
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quel type de fromage à la crème SVP Merci
It can be mascarpone or Neufchâtel Cheese. I hope this helps. 🙂 Enjoy!
I am in love with this recipe! I found it one night after looking in fridge and realizing I really needed to go shopping. My husband who tends to be picky and isn’t always a fan of my”Honey try this” meals devoured it and wanted more. He even asked me to add to must have again list! Thank you for sharing.
Rebecca, I am so flattered by your comment! So glad you loved this recipe and glad you stopped by to share this wonderful feedback with me! 🙂
I love this recipe. It's delicious but I cook the chicken first not all the way because it's still gona cook in the oven
Cristal, thank you for sharing your positive feedback! 🙂
I am in love with this recipe! I found it one night after looking in fridge and realizing I really needed to go shopping. My husband (who tends to be picky and isn’t always a fan of my”Honey try this” meals devoured it and wanted more. He even asked me to add to must have again list! Thank you for sharing.
Have have done this recipe 8-10 times and I enjoy it more then the last time. My family enjoys it when they visit and on holidays. Thank you so much Darlene
Darlene, I am so happy to hear this recipe is a favorite! Thank you for taking the time to share such a positive comment and the 5 stars! 🙂
I tried this today and used philadelphia low fat cheese, but I wanted more of a sauce, so I fried a few mushrooms, half a red onion, chopped, and a few slices of chorizo, chopped. I mixed in 1 tbs tomato paste, half tsp dijon mustard, a splash of Worcestershire sauce, a sprinkle of hot chilli flakes, a tbs philli cheese, and enough hot chicken stock to make it into a thick sauce. I added the cooked bacon, smothered it all over the chicken, sprinkled the grated cheese on top, baked as instructed and served with baby new potatoes.... it was amazing and I'll definitely be making it the same way again and again!
Joanne, I love your creativity with this recipe. Your changes certainly elevated this dish to a new level! Thanks for sharing - your ideas would be helpful to everybody!
Family favorite, even with my somewhat picky kiddos! Everyone loved it & not a single bite was left over.
Danielle, I am so happy the recipe was enjoyed! Thank you for taking the time to share such a positive comment and the 5-star rating! 🙂
Can you sub the cream cheese for something else? Daughter does not like cream cheese. Would she taste the cream cheese in this receipe?
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Emma, you can replace the cream cheese with goat cheese, or shredded Pepper Jack cheese. You can also use part-skim, low-moisture Mozzarella cheese (that usually comes pre-shredded or as a rectangular block of cheese). Not the fresh Mozzarella (that is soft and usually comes shaped as balls or logs).
Loved it!! Full of flavor, only thing is I put a tad to much salt, guess I didn't compensate for the salty bacon!! But very good and I will be making it again.
Michael, I am glad you tried this recipe and enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.
Awesome!! My boyfriend loved it. Thank you so much!
Alexandra, I am so glad the recipe was enjoyed. Thank you for the 5-star review! 🙂