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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
Nutrition Disclaimer:
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.
Do you think this would work with boneless, skinless chicken thighs too? If so, how long in the oven? Can’t wait to try this!
Yes, it would work with boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Probably the same amount of time in the oven. Just check after 20 or 30 minutes if the chicken is completely cooked through, and cook longer, if needed.
From a non cooking guy, Can I make this with microwave bacon?
I used cooked bacon in this recipe. So you can use any cooked bacon you have.
I’ve made this at least 5 times already! I love it! I add chives on top after it’s cooked. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, it’s delicious!!
So happy to hear that! Made it 5 time! WOW! It's an easy recipe, and I am glad you've been enjoying it. 🙂
So lovely and sooo easy. Well done
Thank you! 🙂
Thank you for the recipe! Made it last night exactly as directed. My husband and son both said to keep this in the regular rotation! Neither one could figure out the cream cheese layer. I didn’t tell because my son generally doesn’t care for cream cheese. Yummy!
Ha-ha! Yes, the cream cheese gets so bubbly and soft, and adds amazing creaminess to the chicken. So glad your family enjoyed this recipe. 🙂 Thank you for such a sweet comment!
This was solo delicious! Everyone loved it... My husband... My two boys, 5 and 2 and my Dad!! Grand slam... Which is almost impossible these days!!
So happy everyone liked it! 🙂
This dish turned out perfect had some pepproni in the fridge and I added some.I sent my neighbor a plate had to fix her one the next day.
Deborah, so glad to hear that! 🙂
Sounds delish!!! I can’t wit to make this for dinner
Enjoy!
Yum!! So easy and delicious, this will be a regular for my household
Thank you! I am happy to hear that! 🙂
Ok. I tried this with a twist. I marinated the chicken with a lime based marinade (any marinade of your choice), added green onion and drizzled breasts with ranch dressing (dont use a lot). Then served over cilantro and rice and freshly squeezed lime juice. Simply delicious.
Thank you, Steve, for sharing your tips! Lime-based marinade for chicken sounds delicious, so does serving the chicken over cilantro lime rice!
It's so yummy, next time I'll just half cook bacon and wait until last 10 minutes to add cheese. I also added green beans around the chicken and it was very good!
Glad you liked it! Green beans sound delicious! 🙂
This recipe was so good and simple to make, I added more seasoning to the chicken and it turned out delicious! Thanks
You're very welcome! I am glad you liked it!
My mouth is watering at the pic at 7am
My son is on keto & I knew this would work for him
Can’t wait till supper time
I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
This dish is so easy and so delicious... my family asked me to make it all the time. Thank you!
So happy to hear that! I am glad your family has been enjoying this recipe! 🙂
This is actually pretty healthy if you’re on keto. Just use chicken thighs instead can’t wait to try it!
I hope you like it!
Lol at all the people asking for nutritional info. It has cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and bacon. It's obviously not healthy. If you actually have to ask for the nutritional value then you probably shouldn't make this.
For people on a low carb/keto diet, this is actually healthy and the nutritional info, such as the amount of carbs, fat, and protein, is very important.