I’d like to note that there is nothing creative about this recipe. All the ingredients are very basic: chicken, broccoli, bacon, cheddar cheese. But the assembly and the cooking technique are so easy, which I hope makes this dish attractive to many, especially to those who love chicken and broccoli recipes. It’s all about making our dinners easy without sacrificing taste and our favorite ingredients.
Keto Friendly Chicken Recipes
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When you don’t have too much time on your hands and don’t want to think about what to cook for dinner – make this broccoli bacon chicken!
I recommend to blanch the broccoli before adding it on top of chicken (blanching means adding broccoli to boiling water just for a couple of minutes, removing it and draining it well). Blanching the broccoli makes it moist and brighter in color.
How to make this broccoli bacon cheddar chicken:
First, add chicken breasts to the casserole dish:
Then, add blanched broccoli on top of chicken. Blanched just means that you add broccoli to boiling water for a couple of minutes, then drain it well – it makes the broccoli moist and brighter in color:
Next, add chopped cooked bacon on top of broccoli and chicken:
Add shredded Mozzarella cheese:
Finally, add shredded Cheddar cheese:
Bake your bacon broccoli chicken for about 30 minutes at 400 F in the preheated oven. The exact baking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Cook Time: 30mins
Total Time: 45 mins
– 4 chicken breasts(use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large chicken breasts, sliced in half, horizontally)
– salt and pepper
– 2 cupsbroccoli florets, blanched, chopped
– 6 stripsbacon, cooked, chopped
– 1/3 cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded
– 1 cupCheddar cheese, shredded
– Grease the bottom of the casserole dish with olive oil. I used the the oval casserole dish measured 13 inches x 9 inches x 4 inches deep.
– Add chicken breasts to the casserole dish. Note about chicken: use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large thick chicken breasts, sliced in half horizontally each to make 4 thin chicken breasts.
– Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
– Top with chopped and blanched broccoli florets.
– Top with chopped cooked bacon.
– Top with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
– Top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
– Bake, uncovered, for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
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