I frequently prepare a few extra and freeze them, leaving me to prepare only the sauce. When served with wide egg noodles, this is excellent! So wrap some bacon around your chicken and smile, smile, smile!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 25 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- ½ (8 ounce) package cream cheese, sliced
- 4 slices bacon
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh chives
- 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Pound the chicken breasts until flat. Put a slice of cream cheese and 1 teaspoon chopped chives in the middle of each breast and roll up. Wrap each rolled breast with 1 slice of bacon and secure with toothpicks. Place in a 9×13 inch baking dish.
- In a medium bowl, combine condensed soup, mayonnaise, milk, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Mix until smooth, then pour over chicken.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, or until no longer pink and juices run clear.
Reviews
I cook for me, my husband and our 95 year old neighbor. When I made this recipe, I used shredded cheddar cheese because that’s what I had. Not only did I get praise from Jeff, but our neighbor, Jack, bought me flowers!!
The chicken had no flavor so I made a gravy to make it taste better
I didn’t used the chives or lemon juice and substituted cream of mushroom as it’s what I had on hand. This came out great and we’ll be having it for dinner again. The whole family loved it.
I have made this several times & it is good weeknight meal. The bacon definitely needs to be partially cooked beforehand. Without, it is raw tasting & kind of stringy. It adds a nice smokey flavor, but in my opinion not totally necessary. If you don’t have time to par-cook it, skip it.
Very easy and very tasty. It’s a keeper.
Very good. Used Boursin cheese instead of regular cream cheese. Also pre-cooked bacon and fried fresh mushrooms and onions in bacon grease. Poured over chicken, then added sauce and cooked for 1 hour. Delish!! Great over rice!
As it, Wonderful…I am going to add some dill to my cream cheese next time.
The chicken was good, the sauce was not my favorite. I did skip the mayo since I don’t like mayo, so that may have given it more flavor. I used some sour cream and a little Alfredo sauce in it instead, looking for something creamy to sub in. Mine was a little runnier than I wanted and not enough flavor. However since I liked the chicken and it was a slightly different spin for dinner, I will probably try again but add bacon drippings or crumbles to the sauce and maybe some cheese, or at least less liquid.
Absolutely delicious! Definitely will make this over & over. I took some advice here & there from others to add flavor. Definitely cook the bacon first so it doesn’t come out raw. And season the cream cheese with chives, parsley, garlic powder & basil. Some steps that are missing that helped me were: if you’re using a plump chicken breast like foster farms just cut it as if if you were unrolling it to make a large flat piece. No need to pound flat unless you want to get splattered with a juicy mess. Season the flat breast with salt & pepper. And use more than one strip of bacon or cut a wide strip in half. If not, that one piece will not even make one turn around the chicken breast after you stuff it. Other than that I followed the rest of the recipe. Enjoy!
Great recipe!
Absolutely loved it! The only thing I did differently was to precook the bacon. Will be making this again!!
I thought with all the ingredients in this recipe that I LOVE, that this would be great. Boy was I wrong and so disappointed. It just tasted horrible.
Loved this. All I did differently is add more seasonings. More garlic, onion powder, pepper flakes, and added seeded and finely chopped fresh jalapeño to the cream cheese. Mixed it all up and spread it on the pounded out chicken. It was so tasty! Have made it twice now. Once with chicken breast and the second time with thighs. Fabulous both times. Served it over penne pasta and steamed broccoli. Yummo!
The taste of this recipe is phenomenal! The only thing I changed is cooking the bacon on the stove and crumbling it over top when the chicken is done baking. Wrapping the chicken in bacon you just don’t get the same crisp, and I like my bacon crispy!
So good. Only used three chicken breast halves, but kept the rest of the ingredients the same… Except for wrapping each breast with 2 strips of bacon instead of 1. And used green onion instead of chives because that’s what I had. Also pulled them out of the sauce about 20 minutes or so before cooking time ended to crisp up bacon. Served on egg noodles. Thank you so much for sharing! Can’t wait to make again.
This was great! Definitely pre-cook your bacon a little bit beforehand, but otherwise no changes needed.
Delicious and easy to prepare! Big dinner hit! 😀
I first made the dish to send to a bereaved family. It looked so good that I made it for my family. It was an instant success. It may look time-consuming to assemble, but it really isn’t. Would definitely recommend it and will make it again.
I made this for the first time today, and it became an instant favorite. The kids even had thirds! I made it exactly as instructed and found that the bacon was cooked through and that the sauce was not a greasy mess, despite the cautions of other reviewers. The bacon was soft though and not crisp, but bacon-wrapped recipes are usually this way. The sauce was just amazing, and really absorbed the bacon flavor after simmering in the oven for an hour. I will definitely be making this again soon!
Delicious
Like many reviewers, I used sour cream instead of mayo. I used 1/2 the milk, no lemon juice, but did use white wine instead– gave me an excuse to open a bottle! My husband and teens are never too keen on me trying new recipes, but they liked it a lot. If you put the sauce in the pan first and lay the chicken on top, the bacon on top gets crisp yet the chicken stays moist.