Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Popper Chicken
Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Popper Chicken is a low carb meal that dreams are made of. Boneless chicken breasts stuffed with cream cheese, chopped jalapenos, shredded cheese, and then wrapped in bacon and baked to perfection. Topped with a homemade cilantro lime crema, chopped tomatoes, and cilantro, this is a meal the whole family will love!
Ingredients
- 4 ounces cream cheese cut into cubes
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 to 1 whole jalapeno pepper minced seeds removed, and rough chopped
- 1 teaspoon Mexican seasoning blend
- 1 tablespoon ranch dressing mix
- Pink sea salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
- 4 6-ounce boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 8 slices of bacon
- Cilantro Lime Crema
- Fresh cilantro chopped
- Roma tomato chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Place a metal cooling rack on a baking sheet.
- Place the cubed cream cheese, shredded cheese, jalapeno, Mexican seasoning, ranch dressing mix, salt, and pepper into a food processor. Pulse until the mixture comes together.
- Place a chicken breast into a gallon size zipper-top plastic bag and use a meat mallet, or rolling pin, to pound the chicken breast out to between a quarter-inch and half-inch thickness. *See Notes
- Place 1/4 of the creamed cheese mixture in the center of a chicken breast and carefully roll it up around the mixture making sure that the cheese mixture is completely covered by the chicken.
- Repeat with the remaining chicken breasts.
- Season each stuffed breast with salt and pepper.
- Starting at one end of the stuffed chicken breasts, wrap a slice of bacon around it and then another slice of bacon picking up where the last slice ended. You can secure the stuffed breasts with toothpicks if necessary.
- Place each stuffed breast on the rack on the baking sheet making sure to leave space between them.
- Place the baking rack in the oven and cook for 30 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and raise the oven rack to the upper portion of the oven.
- Carefully broil the stuffed chicken breasts until the bacon begins to crisp, about 2 to 4 minutes. *See Notes
- Drizzle the stuffed breasts with the cilantro lime crema and top with chopped cilantro and tomatoes (optional).
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Nutrition
Calories: 527.28kcalCarbohydrates: 2.99gProtein: 37.88gFat: 39.75gSaturated Fat: 17.65gCholesterol: 158.24mgSodium: 744.62mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1.18g
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