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Chicken with Bacon and Mustard Sauce - an absolute comfort food! In this recipe, chicken breast is moist, tender, and flavorful because it's smothered in the most delicious sauce ever!
This bacon and mustard chicken is one of my most favorite ways to cook chicken breast. It's easy and always a popular recipe with everybody who tries it!
Ingredients you'll need for bacon and mustard chicken recipe:
Dijon mustard
paprika
salt
pepper
bacon
onion
olive oil
chicken breasts
chicken broth
This whole dinner takes only 30 minutes to make!
How to make bacon and mustard chicken (step-by-step photos):
First, make the simple mustard sauce by mixing Dijon mustard with paprika, salt and pepper. Spread the mustard sauce over 3 chicken breasts and set them aside:
In a large skillet cook chopped bacon just until browned:
Remove the bacon and add the chopped onions to the same skillet with bacon fat and cook until softened:
Remove the onion from the skillet, and cook chicken breasts just a little bit on each side (you'll continue cooking them in the next step):
Finally, add the rest of the ingredients to the skillet, add back the bacon, cooked onions, and the chicken, and cook for 20 minutes until chicken is done:
Chicken with Bacon Mustard Sauce
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Dijon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
- 8 strips bacon uncooked, chopped
- 1 cup onion chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 lb chicken breasts , boneless, skinless
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth
Instructions
- Combine Dijon mustard, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl, to make a paste. Spread the paste evenly on both sides of chicken breasts. Set aside.
- In a large skillet, cook chopped bacon on medium-high heat just until it starts to brown. Remove to a plate, leaving a small amount of the bacon fat in a skillet, discarding most of it. To the same skillet, add chopped onion and cook in bacon fat until softened. Remove to the same plate, with bacon.
- Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the same, now empty, hot skillet. Cook chicken breast (with mustard paste on it), on medium heat, about 1.5 minutes on each side. The chicken will not be done as you will continue cooking it in the next step. Remove chicken to a plate.
- To the same skillet, add 1 and ½ cups chicken broth, bring to boil, scraping the bottom of the pan. Add back bacon and onions, mix well. Add back the chicken breast, reduce the heat to low-medium and cook for about 15-20 minutes, turning chicken once, until chicken breast is fully cooked and no longer pink in the center.
Nutrition
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Mine tasted very salty, is it because I used Campbells salt reduced chicken stock?
Maybe, 1/4 teaspoon salt to season 2 pounds chicken breast was too much for you (combined with saltiness from bacon and mustard). Maybe next time, use 1/8 teaspoon of salt to salt chicken breasts.
Disappointing...Mediocre recipe. Made this last night. Sauce is VERY watery, eventually had to use cornstarch to thicken it up... maybe better idea to starts w/ 1 cup or so of chicken broth. Chop bacon to 1/2" pieces or cook it longer. End product: Chicken breasts were not tender.
Did you use 1/3 cup Dijon mustard? Maybe you used less than 1/3 cup? 1 and 1/2 cups of chicken broth will reduce from simmering on low-medium heat for 20 minutes and that will also be enough time to cook the chicken. In the end, when you mix everything up, the sauce should be pretty thick from simmering and the mustard, if not I would add just a little bit more mustard to thicken it up.
Totally agree! About to plate it,,Professional cook over here and this recipe sucks!
I made this tonight and follow the recipe exactly how it is and my husband who is not a chicken eater, say that this is the best chicken ever and wants this for next Sunday when his mother will be here for a visit. This is so delicious, thank for sharing.
Carol, I am so glad you and your husband liked this recipe! I must confess this is one of my favorite recipes to eat chicken breasts. If only I could find more ways to cook chicken breast so that it comes out so flavorful and tender as it is in this recipe!
Wow! This is an amazing recipe! I have tried numerous mustard chicken recipes; this is by far my favorite. I have never commented on a recipe before, but I enjoyed it so much that I had to tell others just how good it is. To top it all, it was incredibly easy to make. Thanks for the great pictures.
Shayna, thank you so much for your super nice comment! So glad you enjoyed this recipe as much as I did! 🙂
This was delicious! I used honey dijon and it was fantastic! Thanks 🙂
Just made this for dinner! Soo good and hubby even licked the plate lol
Thanks for the recipe, definitely a keeper!
LOVED LOVED LOVED this recipe!! Cooked everything exactly as the recipe called for and served on a bed of sautéed zucchini, added sliced avocado and a sprinkle of feta! Thanks for sharing the recipe! This will definitely be a go to meal from now on!
Yup.. Stay away from the sinful chicken...that stuff really come back to bite you...sinless chicken is tasty chicken
Anyone ever try this in a slow cooker?
There is green in the pic but not in the recipe.
This was quick, simple and delicious. Used a different mustard because that is all I had ( Bavarian sweet mustard) and added a little marsale cooking wine. At the very end added chopped green onion and sprinkled on top because it added color and thickened the sauce by stirring in cornstarch mixed with water. This is definitely worth making. Yum
Chicken and bacon mustard.
I don't know how you got this done in 30 minutes. I have to cut everything up it took me 1.75 hrs.
It is wow good though. It's a dish I will make again.
I am finding the same thing! I am making it tonight for dinner and it has taken me over 2 hours so far. My chicken is taking so long to cook as well. The author of this needs to seriously update the time to a realistic one :/ this is unfortunate because I had plans tonight and instead I have to take up my night cooking because it's taking so long.
Chicken breasts come in different weights and thicknesses. It could be that your chicken pieces were larger and took longer to cook.
If you pound your chicken between two sheets of plastic wrap, the chicken will cook faster and more evenly.
I made this tonight and it was AMAZING! I made butternut squash as a side and it was a great pairing!
Can't wait to try this. What is the green in the pictures? Chives? I don't see anything green on the ingredient list.
Can't wait to try. What is the green in the pic? I don't see anything green in the ingredients.