Cheddar Cream Cheese Chicken

Looking for easy baked chicken recipes? Do you like chicken and cream cheese together? Then, this Bacon, Cream Cheese, and Cheddar Chicken is a great choice! Super easy to make! And, you use simple ingredients. This chicken bake is low carb, high fat, KETO friendly, gluten free recipe.

SERVINGS: 4 SERVINGS

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 Tbsp 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:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.
2. 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.
3. 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. 04. Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
4. Top with cream cheese. Cream cheese should be cold, right out of the fridge, sliced into 8 thin slices.
5. Top with chopped cooked bacon (drained from fat).
6. Top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
7. 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:

• Calories: 602

• Calories from Fat: 423

• Total Fat: 47g

• Saturated Fat: 21g

• Cholesterol: 177mg

• Sodium: 734mg

• Potassium: 591mg

• Total Carbohydrates: 2g

• Sugars: 1g

• Protein: 39g