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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 tried this tried this a few weeks ago. We love it. Quick prep and not long cooking time. Having it again tonight
So glad you've been enjoying this recipe! 🙂
Very good quick fix chicken. I put my bacon on uncooked and it cooked perfectly with the chicken .
So glad you liked it! 🙂
So good, easy, & Keto friendly! I love everything cream cheese! Husband & I started adding ranch seasoning to ours 🙂 Yum yum!
Thank you, Emily! So glad you've enjoyed this recipe!
Would you be able to advise on approximately how many ounces per chicken breast is for you? Much appreciated
The chicken breasts I used were about 6 ounces each.
I covered in foil and it was delicious!
So glad you enjoyed it, Michelle!
My son and I LOVE this dish! I always make broccoli to go with it, but usually in a separate dish. I toss the florets in olive oil, coarse salt, and pepper, and then top them exactly like the chicken and bake at the same time. My 14 year old loves the taste and likes this crispy broccoli.
So happy to hear that! I love crispy broccoli - it tastes so good!
I made this tonight for dinner and it was super easy! It had a lot of flavor and was pretty darn good except for I'm wondering if I should have left the bacon bits uncooked and let the oven do the work because they were a little overdone with the cheese on top but otherwise so good!
I am so glad you liked it! I usually cook my bacon not overly crispy - I cook it until it's cooked but still soft, which works well for this recipe, as the bacon continues to cook on top of the chicken.
Absolutely delicious and super easy! I use garlic salt instead of regular salt
I’m gonna make this this week. Sounds heavenly. Thanks for recipe
Absolutely delicious! Family loved it!
I’m about to try this tonight! But I’m going to add a little Mexican flare to it!
Great idea! Enjoy! 🙂
Top banana!
Hi, Julia! Looks super yummy! What would you recommend for a side dish?i always fail at choosing side dishes!
Something green will always go great with a dish like this. Cooked spinach, cooked asparagus, cooked green beans, or cooked broccoli. Also, mashed potatoes or scalloped potatoes are great. You can also try cilantro-lime rice (with or without black beans): https://juliasalbum.com/cilantro-lime-black-bean-rice/
Here is an excellent recipe for roasted asparagus with bacon and cheese:
https://juliasalbum.com/asiago-bacon-and-garlic-roasted-asparagus/
I also love these Asiago cheese roasted broccoli, they are so crunchy I usually have a hard time not eating them all by myself: https://juliasalbum.com/asiago-roasted-broccoli/
Could you make this with cut up chicken breasts and just mix it up with the cheeses? I have precut chicken breast defrosted and was hoping it could work!
Yes, the recipe should work! You might have to adjust the cooking time.
This is a twice a week recipe for me and my family, as a new mom of now 3 below the age of five the days are hectic, but making something like this is easy, and yummy for everyone (plus my hubby compares every dinner I make to this, “well this is really good but I still think the chicken bacon stuff is The best!) LOL. THanks for sharing!
You're so welcome! I love comments like yours - they make my day! 🙂