Bacon Wrapped Chicken Recipe

Bacon Wrapped Chicken
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.
Bacon Wrapped ChickenBacon Wrapped Chicken
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:
Bacon Wrapped ChickenBacon Wrapped Chicken
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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14 Comments so far

  1. grace on May 27th, 2008

    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…

  2. Toni on May 27th, 2008

    I want to you to know that I make these all the time!!! See great cooks do think alike.

  3. Bobby on May 27th, 2008

    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?

  4. Katie on June 11th, 2008

    These look great. Chicken, cream cheese and bacon how can you go wrong.

  5. Ros on June 23rd, 2008

    Ooh. Yum. Going to print this one off, and think of an excuse to use it!

  6. Bobby on June 23rd, 2008

    Ros - You will love it :) Let me know how it turns out.

  7. Aaron on June 24th, 2008

    Nice ;)

  8. Brad on June 26th, 2008

    I bet tarragon cream cheese would be good, too

  9. Pedro on June 27th, 2008

    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.

  10. Hen on June 28th, 2008

    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!

  11. Martin on July 7th, 2008

    Hen, those are very nice tips to make it more yummy and delicious.

  12. Bobby on July 7th, 2008

    Brad - Yes, I think so as well!

    Hen - great idea, garlic and mushrooms sound great.

  13. Evan on July 10th, 2008

    Great recipe! I tried it out last night and loved it.

  14. Mitzi on July 21st, 2008

    I made these, and they were yummy!!

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