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 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?
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!
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.
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
Ingredients
- 16 oz boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- Spreadable Herb and Garlic Cream Cheese ({or chive and onion flavor})
- Salt and pepper ( to taste)
- 8-10 bacon strips (raw)
Instructions
- Flatten chicken to 1/2" thickness
- Spread 2-3 tablespoons cream cheese over each. sprinkle with salt and pepper
- Roll up and Wrap each with 2-3 bacon strips, placing seam side down on a greased 13" x 9" baking pan
- 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
Looks absolutely delicious!
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.
It turned out very good. My cream cheese oozed a bit but this was NOT a bad thing….the stuff that did ooze was all crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside. Mmmm
Great recipe!
Great to hear Dana! My daughter has been requesting this recipe all week!
I think it’s about time to make it again. lol.
Mmm, Saw this in FB and I’m making this for dinner tonight. I dipped the chicken in Italian breadcrumbs first. Can’t wait to taste it. It looks good before it’s even cooked, lol.
mmmm that sounds delicious! I will definitely have to give that a try. 🙂
Happy to give you a meal idea, Athena!
🙂
This truly looks delicous, i am adding it to my list of “must trys” 🙂
Let me know if you try it!!
Looks great! I am going to have to try this.
So easy too Dianne, I think the hardest part is trying to roll some slippery raw chicken, watch out! 🙂
yummy yummy yummy!! I have to save this and try it !
WOW that sounds yummy! I think I will try it for dinner tonight! THanks for sharing!!
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:)
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!
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:)
This looks delicious, I’m certainly going to try this recipe very soon. Thanks!
thanks for sharing this awesome sounding recipe.
everything taste better with bacon, eh.
yes, everything is better with bacon!
🙂
Actually, I’ve stuffed chops and tenderloin. (And chicken breasts). I usually smoke most everything, but they’re still very tasty done in the oven.
You can look at the related links to see some of the others if interested. But this one here is my favorite. My wife and I have made it many times now for company. Always a big hit. http://www.smokedngrilled.com/smoked-apple-walnut-stuffed-pork-chop/
Oh, I like the sounds of that!
How would it taste without the Walnuts, Curt?
{allergies in the family…}
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.
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…
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.
Pork chops or tenderloin, Curt?
Have a recipe for me to try?
Looks delicious. I love bacon and I love chicken. Especially chicken that’s stuffed.
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