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Bacon Swiss Cheese Chicken

August 7, 2016 by Judith Hannemann

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Bacon swiss cheese chicken is so easy to make and delicious too. It’s sure to become a family favorite.

Yummy Flavors

Great ingredients are the secret to this chicken’s fabulous flavor.

The swiss cheese adds a nuttiness to this meal. And what can I say about bacon? Well, an awful lot! You don’t need much bacon to impart it’s fine flavor. In fact, this recipe only uses three slices.

These ingredients work so well with chicken. Since chicken breast is rather bland, you need to use great seasonings or additional highly-flavored ingredients to showcase it.

Yummy bacon and swiss cheese make this chicken dinner delicious. Creamy sauce makes it perfect served over pasta

Browning Is Another Key

I always considered browning to be one of the key factors that flavor a dish. It’s often overlooked, and with food that’s on the bland side, it’s pretty necessary for flavor.

In this recipe, the chicken is browned in some bacon drippings. The drippings also add a lot of flavor.

The onion and mushrooms are browned in the drippings as well. You don’t need much bacon drippings–a little goes a long way.

Deglaze That Pan

Deglazing a pan serves two purposes.

Scraping up all those lovely browned bits that are in the pan and incorporating them into any liquid used in the recipe adds tons of flavor.

Deglazing also cleans the skillet of anything that stuck in the pan. This is a boon especially if you are using pans that don’t have a non-stick coating. That’s the secret to cleaning a stainless steel skillet. Even if you are not making a sauce, deglazing the pan with about 1/2 cup of hot water while the pan is still on direct heat makes clean up a breeze.

Yummy bacon and swiss cheese make this chicken dinner delicious. Creamy sauce makes it perfect served over pasta

Getting Saucy

This sauce is creamy and full of great flavor.

As I said above, deglazing the pan with the stock adds a lot of flavor. It’s important to use a very good tasting stock. One of my favorites is College Inn Bold. Better Than Bouillon is another good one. If you want a low-sodium variety, then Kitchen Accomplice is a good stock to choose. It’s a concentrate and I find it has superb flavor, which is not the case most times with low-sodium products.

The sauce also gets great taste from reducing it. With this sauce, I reduced it about 25 per cent but I still wanted it thicker, so I used a bit of flour and water, but if you like a thinner sauce, then it’s not necessary to thicken.

Since you get a bit of sauce in this recipe, this chicken is wonderful served over pasta.

The Recipe

 

Yummy bacon and swiss cheese make this chicken dinner delicious. Creamy sauce makes it perfect served over pasta
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Bacon Swiss Cheese Chicken

Bacon swiss cheese chicken is so easy to make and delicious too. It’s sure to become a family favorite.
Prep Time25 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time55 mins
Course: Chicken, skillet dinners
Cuisine: American
Keyword: bacon, chicken recipe, swiss cheese
Servings: 4
Calories: 462kcal
Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

  • 4 medium boneless skinless chicken breast halves
  • 3 slices bacon
  • 4 slices swiss cheese
  • 2 tbsp chopped onion
  • 8 oz sliced -OR- button mushrooms fresh preferred
  • 1 1/4 cups chicken stock/broth
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste

THICKENING

  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 1/4 cup water

Instructions

  • In a large skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon from pan and place on a paper towel. Do not discard the bacon drippings. You should have about 2 tbs in the pan from the cooked bacon.
  • Brown chicken well on both sides over medium heat in the same pan in which you cooked the bacon. Remove from pan and set aside.
  • In the same pan, brown the onions and mushrooms (if you use canned, drain first).
  • Deglaze the pan with the chicken stock.
  • Add the chicken back to the pan, cover and reduce heat. Cook for 15-20 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
  • Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm while making the sauce.
  • Add the cream and increase the heat to medium and reduce liquid 25%--this should take about 5-8 minutes. If you want a thicker sauce, mix the flour and water and add to the pan, stirring until liquid is thickened. Add any salt and pepper at this point.
  • Place the chicken back in the pan and place a slice of swiss cheese over each piece of chicken.
  • Fold the cheese slices if they are too long.
  • Cover and cook over low heat until cheese melts--about 5 minutes.
  • Crumble bacon over each chicken breast.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 38g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 152mg | Sodium: 417mg | Potassium: 754mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 704IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 246mg | Iron: 1mg
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Yummy bacon and swiss cheese make this chicken dinner delicious. Creamy sauce makes it perfect served over pasta
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  1. Miranda says

    August 9, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    I love how gooey the cheese looks on top! Yummy!
    Miranda recently posted…Strawberry LemonadeMy Profile

    • Judith Hanneman says

      August 10, 2016 at 12:26 am

      That’s the best part Miranda!!!

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