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If you love chicken and bacon recipes (and who doesn't?), you will really enjoy this easy Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Chicken dinner. Just throw everything on top of chicken in casserole dish, and then bake in one pan for 30 minutes! Done! Low-carb, gluten-free, keto friendly chicken recipe.
I'd like to note that there is nothing creative about this recipe. All the ingredients are very basic: chicken, broccoli, bacon, cheddar cheese. But the assembly and the cooking technique are so easy, which I hope makes this dish attractive to many, especially to those who love chicken and broccoli recipes.
And, by the way, in terms of simplicity and the ingredients, this recipe is very similar to my ranch chicken bake and buffalo chicken bake with bacon. It's all about making our dinners easy without sacrificing taste and our favorite ingredients.
Keto Friendly Chicken Recipes
Here are some more keto friendly recipes similar to this one. If you want to cook low carb, gluten free, high protein and higher fat recipes, take a look at these:
- Gluten free and low-carb chicken bake: Bacon Cream Cheese Cheddar Chicken
- 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
- And, one more super delicious low-carb, gluten free and keto-friendly chicken recipe: Basil Pesto Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Bake
When you don't have too much time on your hands and don't want to think about what to cook for dinner - make this broccoli bacon chicken!
I recommend to blanch the broccoli before adding it on top of chicken (blanching means adding broccoli to boiling water just for a couple of minutes, removing it and draining it well). Blanching the broccoli makes it moist and brighter in color.
How to make this broccoli bacon cheddar chicken:
First, add chicken breasts to the casserole dish:
Then, add blanched broccoli on top of chicken. Blanched just means that you add broccoli to boiling water for a couple of minutes, then drain it well - it makes the broccoli moist and brighter in color:
Next, add chopped cooked bacon on top of broccoli and chicken:
Add shredded Mozzarella cheese:
Finally, add shredded Cheddar cheese:
Bake your bacon broccoli chicken for about 30 minutes at 400 F in the preheated oven. The exact baking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Broccoli Bacon 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
- 2 cups broccoli florets , blanched, chopped
- 6 strips bacon , cooked, chopped
- ⅓ cup Mozzarella cheese , shredded
- 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 chopped and blanched broccoli florets.
- Top with chopped cooked bacon.
- Top with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
- 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.
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This is so tasty! How can you go wrong with cheese, chicken, broccoli and cheese?
Thank you! I couldn't agree more with what you said. 🙂
What would you eat with this dish since you can’t eat rice or potatoes on keto?
I made it and served a salad with it, worked out perfectly for our keto lifestyle!
You can serve roasted asparagus or green beans or roasted zucchini.
Here are a couple of recipes you might like:
Oven-roasted Asparagus with Asiago, Bacon, and Garlic
Green Beans with Bacon
This looks super simple and I've got everything ready to cook this tonight! Can't wait!
Enjoy!
This is an awesome looking dish. I Just want to verify....is the dish baked covered or uncovered in the oven?
Thanks
Thank you! 🙂 It's baked uncovered in the oven.
Made it tonight, it was a hit for my non-Keto family. And the best thing was it was perfect for me too!
So glad your family liked this dish! 🙂
Absolutely love it ..cook it most Saturdays now
Thank you! So glad you like this dish! 🙂
I want make this for my step daughter who is about to have her baby. Would you cook it and then freeze it? Thanks!
I would say this is freezeable. You might want to only half bake it so that when she defrosts it and rebakes i,t it doesn't come out to dry. The broccoli might have to be added when she bakes it because I don't think that would freeze and rebake well.
Could this be frozen and baked later?!My daughter’s expecting a baby in 4 weeks and this great for the whole family!
Made this tonight. It was delicious and
super easy.
Happy to hear that! 🙂
Ok so its really hard to get a recipe that all 4 adults in my home love but you did it, and I thank you !
So happy to hear that! Thank you for your wonderful comment! 🙂
im making this tonight it smells good
Enjoy! 🙂
Delicious and so easy to make:)
So happy you liked it! 🙂
I made this last night
.Amazing !!!
Thank you! Glad to hear that!
Looks good, but is this is ok to eat on a diet?
Good and quick
I wrapped the chicken with bacon and added spinach! 45 more min and we will see how it turned out! Super excited!
So glad you're enjoying this recipe! 🙂