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.