Bacon Wrapped Chicken Recipe
Chicken, and bacon, better yet, crispy bacon. They are two of my favorite foods both in one easy recipe. I had some extra boneless-skinless chicken breasts on hand and was looking for an easy dinner which brings us today’s recipe for Bacon Wrapped Chicken. What really surprised me was the amount of ingredients in this recipe, there are very few! I feel the chive and onion cream cheese is a huge ingredient in the flavor department and does most of the work for you. Try and pound the chicken breasts down with a mallet as thinly as possible because they will roll up a lot easier. If you want to do some outdoor grilling these can also be grilled as well. They go great with a side dish of pasta or flavored rice. Enjoy.
Ingredients:
12 boneless skinless chicken breasts halves
2 (8 oz) cartons chive and onion cream cheese
12 slices of bacon
salt (to taste)
2 tablespoons butter
Cooking Instructions:
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Between 2 sheets of wax paper with a mallet flatten chicken breasts to ½” thickness.
Step 2: Spread 3 tablespoons of cream cheese over each chicken breast. Then Dot with butter and season with salt. Wrap with bacon and stick a toothpick through the rolled chicken breast to hold it together. Roll up and stick a toothpick through to hold it together.
Step 3: Bake uncovered for 35-40 minutes (or until juices run clear).
Step 4: Turn on the broiler and broil six inches from the heat for 5 minutes or until the bacon is crispy.
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come on now–cream cheese, chicken, and bacon? you slay me. and since it’s seemingly quite easy, i have no excuse not to make and devour several portions…
I want to you to know that I make these all the time!!! See great cooks do think alike.
grace - haha, I love your comments. It is sooo easy and good, you need to try it!
Toni - Yes, we are great cooks! They are amazing, right?
These look great. Chicken, cream cheese and bacon how can you go wrong.
Ooh. Yum. Going to print this one off, and think of an excuse to use it!
Ros - You will love it
Let me know how it turns out.
Nice
I bet tarragon cream cheese would be good, too
I do something very similar except that I cook the bacon (usually microwave to get it SUPER crispy) first and sprinkle it over the cream cheese. Then, I coat in panko and bake.
Okay…sorry if I get all healthy on evryone, but I make these with chopped spinach and I use turkey bacon.
For variety, you can also use some gorgonzla cheese…yummy!
Just chop the spinach, add the crumbled cheese to the seasoned chicken breasts and roll & wrap.
I saw a cook on TV do this but she created a pocket (at the small end of the breast)and stuffed the chicken with the veggies and cheese, seasoned them and wrapped the bacon strips around them and popped them in the oven.
You can get very creative ( garlic, mushrooms, shallots in the veggie/cheese mixture) with the ingredients and make it different each time. Sorry, I get carried away with cooking ideas!
Enjoy, any way you choose to serve it!
Hen, those are very nice tips to make it more yummy and delicious.
Brad - Yes, I think so as well!
Hen - great idea, garlic and mushrooms sound great.
Great recipe! I tried it out last night and loved it.
I made these, and they were yummy!!
I’m making this to take to this year’s family Christmas Eve party…they will love it
i have made these befor but not with chive and onion cream cheese can any one suggest a certin brand
Jose - philadelphia makes a good chive and onion. I hope you enjoy.
thanks Bobby my family will love it
Ya know, I keep thinking I’m going to see a recipe I DON’T want to make, and it’s really only happened once so far. The hardest part is deciding what to make FIRST! I cannot wait to show this site to my hubby and come up w/ some new meals! I’m sorry to keep bugging you with comments, but WOW! Everything looks so incredible!
I have been make this for years they are great but I use chicken strips not breast my kids love them
Try philadelphia herb and garlic cream cheese too
Oh, wow! What’s not to love?
Great photos!
They make these across the street from my house, and serve it with the best spicy sauce made of strawberry jam, spicy red peppers and ketchup.
I am a College student and made this it was easy to make and very good!
LOVE THIS - takes me back to when my college roomie and I made these quite frequently.
She would put the bacon on the inside of the chicken.
Due to lack of utensils when we first made it, I split the chicken breasts instead of pounding them out.
I love the above alternates/additions suggested and will definitely try some.