With an excellent combination of sharpness and sweetness, the flavor is buttery and vibrant. Maintain in the fridge. Grapefruit curd can be frozen for up to a month, but it only keeps for approximately a week when kept cold.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 4 (6 ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, pounded thin
- 8 bacon strips
- 1 onion, sliced
- ¼ teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
- ¼ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese
Instructions
- Mix flour, bread crumbs, garlic salt, and black pepper together in a bowl. Coat each chicken breast with flour mixture.
- Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon, reserving bacon drippings; drain bacon on paper towels.
- Cook and stir coated chicken breasts in the bacon drippings until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, about 5 minutes per side; remove and keep warm.
- Cook and stir onion, lemon-pepper seasoning, Italian seasoning, salt, red pepper flakes, and brown sugar in the same skillet until onion is golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven’s broiler.
- Arrange chicken breasts on a baking sheet; top each breast with 2 bacon slices. Top with caramelized onion and Colby-Monterey Jack cheese.
- Broil chicken breasts until cheese is melted and bubbling, 1 to 3 minutes.
- The nutrition data for this recipe includes the full amount of the breading ingredients. The actual amount of the breading consumed will vary.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 664 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 35 g |
| Cholesterol | 152 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 49 g |
| Saturated Fat | 14 g |
| Sodium | 1823 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Fat | 36 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Was looking for something flavorful using chicken breasts and this caught my attention. I’ve made smoothered chicken before and there are many different recipes with different ingredients but this one was by far the most flavorful and was quite easy to prepare. It has many layers of flavor including sweet, hot, salty, and of course, bacon. I thought two slices of bacon was a bit excessive and half of 1 thick slice on each breast was just right, at least for my husband and I. It was quite tasty, and my picky husband loved it. I made up extra breading for the chicken also. It’s the perfect blend of spices and flavor.
This is a very time consuming recipe for one that has “easy” in the name. All turned out except for the sauteed onions with the spices – after 10 minutes of sauteeing on medium and then medium-low heat, the spices clumped together in a black mess and the onions were also mostly black/burned. They may do better if cooked without the seasoning and then adding the spices at the end of that part of the recipe.
My husband said this is 5 star chicken! So easy and very tasty.
This recipe was delicious! I followed the recipe exactly and wouldn’t change a thing. I butterflied my chicken breasts as they were a bit thick and used precooked bacon to save time. The flavor combinations were so tasty and I plan to make this again! Great for entertaining!
Awesome—Can’t go wrong with cheese, bacon, and caramelized onions!
I made this recipe the other day, and my husband is already asking for it again. Insists it’s one of the tastiest dishes he’s ever had. Was manning to make it for his birthday this weekend, but he wants it NOW.
DELICIOUS!! My family now requests this dish regularly. How can you go wrong with this combo of ingredients?! Don’t skimp on the carmelized onions, either – they are the perfect compliment to the salty bacon & the sharper the cheese (I used pepperjack) the better. WE LOVE THIS RECIPE.
left off the cheese and added red peppers, great way to cook a breast. still very juicy and incredibly flavorful
Just ok… Good favor, but the chicken itself turned out very rubbery for some reason.
This was great!! Husband loved it too. We do not like sweet so I did not add brown sugar. I will definitely make this again!!
Delicious. I didn’t make any changes to the recipe. Very good flavor combination with the lemon-pepper, italian seasoning, and carmelized onions. Will definitely make this again.
Delicious – and the family demanded that I promise to make it again; and often.
My husband said it is the very best meal I have ever made- and I cook every night. Super dish!
I give this dish a 5 because it was great. The lemon and pepper mixed in with brown sugar and rest of the ingredients gave it a unique flavor which both my wife and I enjoyed. we served the chicken with rice as a side dish.
Very good. Will make it again. I did use mozzarella cheese as that s what I had on hand. Chicken came out juicy.
I MADE IT AND I LOVE IT!!! I HAD SOME CHICKEN BREAST THAT NEEDED TO BE COOKED!! I DIDNT HAVE THE JÀCK CHEESE SO I JUST USED CHEDDAR CHEESE!!! SERVED WITH BROCCOLI AND MASH POTATOES! IT TURNED OUT REALLY GOOD!!
Very good. Some have served it with creamy side dishes and complained about the greasiness. We loved it with the caramelized onions spooned over plain rice.
Loved it! I added mushrooms to the glazed onion part- because I had some I needed to use. But kept to rest of the recipe- it’s delish! Definitely making this again!
This was great. I have made this a second time now, and my husband says it is his new favorite way to have chicken breasts.
I LOVED it….the spice the sweet… delicious!!. I cook it a little longer. but still great. something my kids will finally eat…thx
I tried this recipe for the first time tonight. I followed the recipe exactly, except I chopped the bacon. My family LOVED it. We might try the bacon and this version of caramelized onions on other foods.