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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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Awesome! My family loved it!
So glad to hear that!
This was very good, it has become my wife's favorite dish.
I am so glad to hear that!
What is the serving size for the nutrition facts?
The serving size is per chicken breast, so 1 each.
Yes, the whole recipe makes 4 servings.
The whole recipe makes 4 servings, and the calorie count is for 1 serving.
I made this but tweaked it just a little. I added some garlic powder along with the salt and pepper and I used chive and onion cream cheese instead of regular cream cheese as well as added some shredded mozzarella with the cheddar. It was delicious! Everyone loved it!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! And, I love your changes! Great idea to add garlic powder to the salt and to use chive and onion cream cheese. WOW! It must've been so delicious!
This recipe was amazing! The chicken was tender and flavorful. Thank you for sharing!
So happy you liked it!
I made this the first time, but left it in too long.
Good thing I did, the cheese on top was browned and crispy. Absolutely delish! Hubby loved it.
Made it again lastnight, but I forgot how, so, I added spinach on top of the chicken breasts, bacon & cream cheese, then topped with the cheddar!
WOW, was THAT good!
A total hit in my house, and a go-to Keto recipe form now on!
Thank you, Laura, for such a wonderful comment! So happy you liked this recipe. Yes, the cheese gets so nicely browned if you leave the chicken in the oven longer or broil it. And, the addition of spinach sounds delicious! What a great idea!
I love this receipe! A quick keto go to... I do garnish with a few chives or green onions and smoked paprika once baked.
So glad you liked it! The addition of green onions and smoked paprika sounds delicious!
I wonder if I could adapt this for an instant pot?
One word....
WONDERFUL!
Thank you!
Was looking for a way to make chicken tonight and found this. Had everything to make so gave it a try. Turn out awesome. Girlfriend loved it and she is hard to please with chicken. Thanks for sharing!
Steven, you are very welcome! So glad you and your girlfriend enjoyed this recipe!
Great recipe. I’m a 69 year old man and had no problem preparing. We thought it was delicious and had plenty for another meal. It looked real good too, wish I had taken a photo for you.
So glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving such a kind comment!
Doing South Beach diet lifestyle, so modified by using less cheese (low fat cream cheese, sharp cheddar), more spices (garlicnpowder, dried onions, peppercorn) & to save time used chicken tenderloins. Super tasty, served with a side of mixed veggies. Enjoyed many servings during the 2019 Buffalo blizzard.
Melinda, I am so happy you enjoyed this recipe! And that it made the cold weather more tolerable. 🙂
Excellent recipe.
Thank you!
This was a huge hit for me and my non-Keto eating kids. We’ll be making this one again!
Thank you, Alicia! I am so happy to hear that!
I’m so glad I found this recipe! I’m new to the Keto diet and sometimes it’s a challenge for me to find things I like and will eat. Tonight I was putting off cooking and when I started looking for recipes everything seemed to take too long or I didn’t have the ingredients. But then I found this. It was quick and easy! And tastes delicious! I ended up using Real Bacon Bits from Aldi. Thanks for posting!
You are very welcome! I am so glad you found this recipe useful! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your wonderful comment!
My kids asked for this again last night! They call it cheese fries chicken (minus the fries) ;). The pan was empty! Thank you for sharing!!!
You are very welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the recipe!