Bored with your usual chicken recipes for dinner? Try something new with my Jalapeno Bacon Wrapped Chicken. A stuffed chicken breast recipe your whole family will fall in love with.
I am not fortune teller, but I am pretty sure two food trends that will never die are anything bacon wrapped and anything jalapeno popper. The two together are nothing short of magic. Pure jalapeno bacon magic.
I have played with this recipe in servel variations. The biggest problem with any stuffed chicken breast recipe is getting the stuffing to stay inside the chicken.
I’ve pounded them out and folded them over, made pockets and even put it under the skin of a skin-on airline cut.
Do you know what helps that stuffing stay in place? BACON! Bacon is like the tape to this glorious, cheesy present. Break the seal and out flows the deliciousness.
For my Jalapeno Bacon Wrapped Chicken uses not one, but three types of cheese: cream cheese, pepper jack and cheddar, making these the absolute cheesiest stuffed chicken breasts ever!
Fresh jalapenos with the seeds really amps up the heat. For less heat, use jarred jalapenos or take out the seeds.
Of course, you can omit them all together and the pepper jack cheese will provide a small amount of heat.
Spritzing your Jalapeno Bacon Wrapped Chicken with lime and serving avocado on side also helps to cool it down. You can even use sour cream, if you’d like!
I serve my cheese stuffed chicken breasts with Southern Fried Corn or Spicy Baked Potato Wedges.
More bacon wrapped easy dinner ideas:
- Bacon Wrapped BBQ Meatballs
- Bacon Wrapped Dates
- Bacon Wrapped BBQ Chicken Stuffed Peppers
- Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
Bacon Jalapeno Popper Chicken
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts , boneless and skinless
- 8 ounces cream cheese , softened
- 1 cup pepper jack cheese , shredded and divided
- 1 cup cheddar cheese , shredded and divided
- 6 slices bacon , cooked, crumbled and divided
- 2 jalapenos , minced
- 3 cloves fresh garlic , finely minced
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 lime , cut into wedges
- 1 avocado , cut into slices
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Coat a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the cream cheese, 1/2 cup of the pepper jack cheese, 1/2 cup of the cheddar cheese, half of the cooked bacon, jalapenos and garlic.
- Tenderize each chicken breast with the flat part of a meat mallet until it is about 1/4 inch thick.
- Season the chicken breasts all over with the salt, pepper and paprika.
- Spoon the cream cheese mixture onto one half of each chicken breast, folding over and placing into the baking dish. Filling might start to fall out and this is fine.
- Bake the chicken uncovered for 25 minutes, check the internal temp for 165°F.
- Remove and top with the sour cream and then remaining 1/2 cup of the pepper jack cheese, shredded cheddar cheese and remaining crumbled bacon. Return to the oven for an additional 5 minutes, or until cheese is fully melted. Allow to rest for 5 minutes.
- Garnish with the lime wedges and avocado.
- If you've tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was in the comments or star ratings!
Words are not even enough to describe what this is doing to me! This looks so delicious!
So this chicken is already wrapped in bacon (yum!) then you add the cheese and spicy jalapenos inside?!! Double delicious dinner right here.
Omg this is proper comfort food, totally drooling. Can’t wait to try this!
Such a great way to use jalapenos in a dish! I might be worried about how spicy the finished product is but I guess you can adjust the amount of jalapeno peppers you use to tone it down a bit?
OMG this looks so good. It is lunchtime here and this made me so hungry!
What great flavors for a chicken dish!
I am totally with you on these two trends – bacon wrapped and jalapeno poppers are here to stay!!!! What you have here is awesome times two!
G’day! I love this idea for a chicken dish! YUM
Cheers! Joanne
Jalapeno Popper Chicken sounds awesome, as a matter of fact I am working on a recipe that also involves Jalapeno Poppers!!! Much different but I wish I had noticed this as well. Now I am going to have to make this too!!
I will have to make this soon!! My garden is BURSTING with Jalapeno peppers!