Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken

This Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken recipe is full of flavoured cream cheese and wrapped in crisp pieces of bacon. This bacon wrapped chicken recipe is super easy to make yet fancy enough for company.

bacon wrapped stuffed chicken

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

For another great chicken dinner, try this Stuffed Tuscan Chicken. Yet I’m sure you’ll also fall in love with this Pesto Cheese Stuffed Chicken Rolls, which not only tastes great but also is impressive in looks!

With a mouthful name like, ‘Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken‘ you’d assume it be a complicated and time-consuming recipe.

No Way!

Anyone might be intimidated by a food that is stuffed and bacon wrapped, assuming it’s difficult and time consuming. This is actually one of the simplest recipes ever. Years later and it’s still the top easy dinner recipe.

It IS a mouthful of delicious rather! Yet then anything bacon wrapped is truly wrapped in love, don’t you think?

bacon wrapped chicken

I used to just bake ordinary chicken breasts with spices, and now I have a new favourite. Someone claimed it was better than ones tried in restaurants, and since then it’s a recipe we love to make time and again.

This is a 3 ingredient recipe, which makes it even better. There’s not a bunch of steps to make this wonderful stuffed chicken that is also a low carb meal.

This bacon wrapped chicken is an oven recipe, and the bacon holds in the juicy chicken. No dry chicken with this recipe!

bacon wrapped chicken recipe

How to Make Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken

This is such an easy recipe. You’ll need the following ingredients, and the full printable recipe card is below.

  • boneless chicken breasts
  • Spreadable Herb and Garlic Cream Cheese
  • Salt and black pepper
  • slices of bacon

To Make: The first step is to flatten chicken to 1/2″ thickness using a meat mallet on a flat surface. Spread 2-3 tablespoons cream cheese over each. Sprinkle with little salt and pepper.

Roll up and Wrap each with 2-3 slices of bacon, placing ends of the bacon seam side down on a rimmed baking sheet (or baking dish) that has been sprayed with olive oil.

Bake uncovered for 35-40 minutes, at 400°C or until the internal temperature reads that the chicken is cooked. If needed, Broil 6 for 5 minutes to get crispy bacon on the outside.

cream cheese stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon

Best of all you can pick and choose your flavour of cream cheese to suit your preference. Herb and Garlic is what I like to use, but sometime when shopping, they didn’t have it as an option.

So, I have chosen another flavour from time to time and it’s always been delicious. It’s such a simple recipe, we love to enjoy this even if it’s not a busy weeknight. Yet recipes like these were made for weeknight meals, as they are made in no time.

As for sides to this stuffed chicken breast, the options are endless. Rice, potatoes, salad and seasonal vegetables – this is a meal that you can make all year long and will even make your picky eaters happy.

bacon wrapped stuffed chicken

Guests will think you brought on the fancy recipe just for them. Don’t worry, I won’t say how easy it is – impress away!

The first time I made this my oldest said, “you can make this anytime“. My {picky} twin toddlers said nothing until they asked for seconds. The whole family couldn’t get enough of this delicious meal.

This is an easy recipe with plenty of flavor, you will be so happy that you tried it. Come back and thank me when you do with a 5 star rating, I love to hear how others love the recipes we create.

To Store: Place leftovers in an airtight container or cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate up to 4 days.

bacon wrapped stuffed chicken recipe
bacon wrapped chicken recipe

Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken

Yield: 4 people
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken is full of flavoured cream cheese and wrapped in love - which is crisp bacon. This recipe is super easy to make yet fancy enough for company.

Ingredients

  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves {4 ounces each}
  • Spreadable Herb and Garlic Cream Cheese {or chive and onion flavor}
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 8-10 bacon strips

Instructions

  1. Flatten chicken to 1/2" thickness
  2. Spread 2-3 tablespoons cream cheese over each. sprinkle with salt and pepper
  3. Roll up and Wrap each with 2-3 bacon strips, placing seam side down on a greased 13" x 9" baking pan
  4. Bake uncovered for 35-40 minutes, at 400°F. If needed, Broil 6 for 5 minutes to get the bacon crisp.

Notes

  • feel free to use another cream cheese flavour of choosing
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 4 people
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 312Saturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 101mgSodium: 422mgProtein: 29g

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97 Comments

    1. I agree, Tiffany. I never attempted to ‘stuff a meat’ before {sounds so odd}, I always assumed it was hard. Now I’m brave enough to try more ‘stuffing’. lol

  1. Awesome! This looks delicious. I just recently started stuffing meat also. The possibilities are endless. Try pork chops sometime. It’s actually very easy! You’ll wonder why you never did it before.

    1. Oh, I like the sounds of that!
      How would it taste without the Walnuts, Curt?
      {allergies in the family…}

      1. That is unfortunate. The walnuts are my favorite part in the stuffing because of the crunch. Can you substitute walnuts with soy nuts? That might work. But then, I wouldn’t take chances with allergies.

        As for flavor though, the walnuts probably wouldn’t change much.

        1. I’ll have to think up a substitue. So often I see a recipe that I want to try, and it has nuts in the ingredients. It’s hard to tell if it’s really ‘needed’ or not…

  2. thanks for sharing this awesome sounding recipe.
    everything taste better with bacon, eh.

  3. This looks so tasty! I have tried every one of your recipes and I have loved every one. Although I love bacon it has to be real crispy so I usually do not use it for main dishes but this looks so good and you have never let me down in the taste department, we are going to try it! Thanks for sharing these great recipes, always nice to have variety:)

    1. Hi Doris!
      The underside doesn’t get real crispy of course, but the top and sides, yes! I like crispier bacon too, so I was happy that it came out as so! Yum!

      1. We have made this twice! Yum it is so good, I love the taste and was surprised my husband did too, he’s such a meat and potato person! Thanks for the recipe:)

    1. So easy too Dianne, I think the hardest part is trying to roll some slippery raw chicken, watch out! 🙂

  4. I made it yesterday and the recipe went to my favorites. Thanks!
    Though, I’m not sure about 400C… misprint? I made it 200C and it worked perfectly.

  5. You had me at Bacon, so add Chicken and I’m already hooked…I will try this recipe for my family..

  6. oohhh tammi you are now a kitchen goddess!! this recipe sounded so good i had to try it out, my god it was so friggin awesome!!
    my note is not to add the salt…bacon is salty to start and to use a flavored bacon (smoked would be my favorite).
    you’ll really laugh that my husband has a friend (that you know) that maybe coming over one night for dinner soon, anyways my husband is telling me that i have to make this for his friend….then i told him where the recipe came from, lol!!

  7. looks really good, you always make them seem so easy to make !! going to try this next week

  8. This looks simply delicious. Why is it that when you start on a weight loss journey – certain food combinations just leap out of the page at you. Gulp. Gotta stop checking out different ideas for meals. lol.

  9. Ohmygosh!! Bacon, herb and garlic cream cheese, chicken. Wow, this sounds amazing. I very much want to eat this!

  10. Omgoodness this sounds delicious! I’m a huge bacon (with anything) fan, but my husband doesn’t like it! (didn’t know people like him existed before I met him) lol

    Thanks for the recipe!

  11. This looks so yummy! I think I would win wife of the year award if I made it! I must give it a try!

  12. Oh my!!! I’m sooo going to have to try this! These are some of my favorite things….bacon, chicken and cream cheese!!! Mmmm

  13. Oh this looks wonderful. Love the pictures. I love Bacon and adding it to Chicken makes it a must try. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I’ll definitely be trying it this week.
    Carol L.

  14. Looks Delicious ….My Boys would definitely want Me to try this recipe They love anything Bacon …They say bacon makes everything better lol …Thanks for sharing

  15. That does look like it would be diificult and it also looks amazing! I do have to admit that I love everything with bacon 🙂

  16. Another easy recipe. Your picture makes it look so good. I have put the list of ingredients on my shopping list.

  17. I been looking around for a different recipe for chicken – well looks like I found it. We all love bacon too so this is going to be my next chicken dinner. Thanks so much for the recipe and pictures I cant wait to show them what Im making .

  18. You always have such yummy recipes. I’ve been using them the last week, and I must say they are amazing 🙂

  19. This dish looks so delicious. Think I might try to make it this weekend. I think my family would love it.

  20. Thinks looks amazing and I am definitely going to have to try it. I wonder if you put it up on a rack if the bacon would get crisper on the bottom? Maybe something to try.

  21. chicken and bacon perfect combo of my fav foods. yum and an easy recipe to whip up but looks like alot of time went into it.

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  23. This looks absolutely delicious and combines my favorite ingredients into one! I mean come on who dosent love bacon and chicken! lol Great recipe! Something I will be trying this weekend!

  24. You had me at bacon wrapped! I’ve never tried to make stuffed chicken before but this recipe tasty and not super intimidating. I like the idea of switching up the cream cheese flavours for an extra bit of variety as well

  25. I have turkey bacon do you think it would work with that or should I stick to reg bacon?

  26. so last night I made the chicken, I dint have a mallet so I took one of my hubby’s from garage lol. pounded a bit too hard couple of holes in chicken, then realized I didnt have any cream cheese, sooo I took my lite laughing cow wedges (4) and mixed them with garlic and basil. stuffed as best I could with holes in chicken and held them together with skewers. Went to get bacon (turkey) thats all I had and saw that it had been eaten. needless to say it was baconless but it did taste really good and we are having it for leftovers tonight.

  27. OOO – Like cheesecake for Homer Simpson with stuffing and bacon added….sweet. I’m printing this one to try on long week-end.

  28. This may be worth giving a try! My fiancé doesn’t like chicken breasts plain but loves bacon so he would likely love this!

  29. I did make them but I really need to get a mallet for meat. I didnt have one so I used my hubby’s tool mallet and what a mess. end result didnt look pretty but it still tasted yummy

  30. That looks amazing! I bet the bacon probably keeps the chicken pretty moist. Will have to give this recipe a try!

  31. Husband and I love bacon, and he especially would love this but with the added nitrates in bacon we have had to give it up for health reasons

  32. This sounds delicious. I like the combo of chicken and bacon together and you could switch up the filling.

  33. I have been looking for an easy bacon wrapped chicken recipe. My hubby is gonna love this!!!!!!!!! thanks !

  34. This recipe sounds so delicious that I am determined to make it soon. My husband is getting tired of the Chicken Breast with Spices and I know he will probably love this dish. I know I will!

  35. I make a similar version using regular cream cheese and a pat of butter in each breast. I serve with Knorr’s Peppercorn gravy..delicious! Very anxious to try it with the herb and garlic cream cheese…bet it will be the new favourite! Thank you for the recipe!

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