This dish is easy, filling and so delicious! I like creating recipes that don’t require a lot of time in the kitchen or call for ingredients you just don’t have.. Chicken is what we eat the most in my house so this stuffed chicken breast was a win win because who doesn’t like bacon & cheese 😉 It takes very little time to prepare and paired with a salad you have yourself a nice low point meal. The garlic bacon cream cheese filling is the stand out in this recipe, I am sure it will be a new favorite. Serves 4 at 4 smart points each using the new freestyle SP program.
Garlic bacon and cheese stuffed chicken breast
4-8PP, 4SP blue & purple, 8SP green
Ingredients
- 4- 6 oz raw skinless boneless chicken breast
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp egg whites
- 2.5 Tbsp bread crumbs
- 1.5 Tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
- 1.5 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp italian seasoning
- 4 oz softened light cream cheese
- 3 slices cooked and crumbled bacon I used Wegman's center cut (3 slices=2SP) set aside 1/2 Tbsp of your bacon grease.
- 1 oz light shredded mozzarella cheese I used Trader Joe's brand 1oz=1SP
Instructions
- Cook your bacon, set aside 1/2 Tbsp of your bacon grease. Crumble bacon and set aside
- Preheat oven to 375F, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly spray.
- Cut your 4- 6 oz chicken breast open, but not all the way (as shown in picture)
- Whisk your egg and egg whites together in a small bowl, lay out your flour on a flat plate, in a small bowl mix your bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, 1/2 tsp of garlic and 1 tsp italian seasoning and spread out on another flat plate.
- In a small bowl mix together your cream cheese, 1 tsp garlic powder, crumbled bacon and shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Divide mixture into your 4 chicken breast spreading out to cover (see picture) fold breast closed.
- Roll each breast in flour, dip each stuffed breast carefully in the egg mixture and then roll in your bread crumb mixture.
- Heat your bacon grease in a large frying pan over medium then sear the chicken breast for 1 minute on each side.
- Place on baking sheet and bake in oven for 35 minutes.
- Makes 4 servings at 4-8 personal points, 4 smart points each on blue & purple, 8SP green (or 7 points plus- old WW program) *Smart points were based on using the WW freestyle recipe builder..
- Nutritional info per breast...Calories 324... Fat 12.1g...Sat fat 6.1g...Carbs 7.7g...Fiber 0.3g... Sugars 2.4g...Protein 39.1g
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61 Comments
Looks yummy, but I have a question, when do you add the parmesan? I saw it listed in the ingredients section but not in the recipe.
Sorry I since updated it, it is added to the bread crumb mixture
So yummy! Made it for dinner and it was loved by all. Would be great for company. I used fat free cream cheese and it was still wonderful.
So glad everyone loved it 🙂
Looks delicious! Thanks!
Hope you enjoy it 🙂
I love this recipe. Have made it twice doe family and guest and everyone loves it. So moist and easy.
So glad everyone enjoys it 🙂
Can you substitute the cream cheese with anything else?
I guess you could use a different cheese if you want? Cottage, riccota?? You want something creamy, maybe even a plain greek yogurt
I used laughing cow cheese when I realized there was no cream cheese. Still came out delicious.
Good call 🙂 I love laughing cow! Glad you enjoyed it
Can’t wait to try this! Also the salad in picture is the recipe on your site? That looks delicious as well.
Hope you enjoy it Cindy, no recipe for the salad just threw some stuff together lol
This was great,
The whole family loved it.
I added a little paprika and chilli to the cheese stuffing mix which bought a bit of heat. Will be defantly cooking it again ??
Sounds awesome, so glad everyone enjoyed it 🙂
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Do you think this could be cooked in the air fryer? What about adding spinach and sun-dried tomatoes? Thank you
I’m not familiar with the air fryer although I did just get one but it will be awhile till I can play around with it, I think you should be able to cook it in it, and sure you can add anything you want to it just be mindful of additional points
Delicious–definitely will make this again & again!
So glad you enjoyed it Joyce 🙂
This looks delicious! I am just starting out on the freestyle, and have a question about the points. When I add the nutritional info to the app/site to track my points, it calculates to 8 smart points. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong! Any tips? I can’t wait to make this though!
Hi Meagan, the nutritional info will give you the points for the recipes as is, but on freestyle we don’t count the chicken, as you can see on my post it says 8 smart points, but that is before chicken was a zero point food, so now if you use the recipe builder on your app and enter this you should get 4 freestyle points
I am making this for dinner today, I will let you know how it turns out…so far my kitchen smells fantastic…hoping it taste as good as it smells
Awesome, hope you enjoyed it 🙂
Just made this and it is so good I stopped eating to comment! Love It!
So glad you enjoyed it Sarah 🙂
This recipe was delicious! The whole family loved it!
So glad you all enjoyed it 🙂
How can 1/2 tablespoonful bacon fat sauté 4 chicken breast ?
You are just “searing” the chicken, you do not need much grease in the pan to do this, I have no problem just using the 1/2 Tbsp to lightly coat the pan
This has become a family favorite!
Awesome, so glad the family enjoys it 🙂
Made this tonight, it was delicious!!! Thank you again…… you really should think about putting all your recipes in a recipe book and selling them. I would be first in line. Tomorrow will be the other stuffed chicken recipe you have??
Hi Stacey, so glad you enjoyed the chicken, I really do want to have a cookbook one day, just not knowing where to start is the hard part 🙁 but one day hopefully 🙂
I made this tonight and it was delicious! However, I listed your information on my ww app and it shows 8 points. Can you tell me how you’ve calculated 4 freestyle points? I’m currently following freestyle.
Hi Here is the breakdown of points from my App, flour 2SP, breadcrumbs 2SP, Parmesan 1SP, cream cheese 9SP, center cut bacon 2SP and Trader Joe’s cheese 1SP (17SP, divided by 4 gives them a 4 point value) maybe your products were a different brand?
Kate,
I just tried this and it was absolutely delicious. I just started WW again and I have to say….with food like this, I’m wondering if I will really lose weight. I can do this for life. Thank you for sharing. I have signed up to receive your emails.
Hi Cathy, thank you so much for your kind words, so glad you enjoyed the chicken, it is one of my favorites! And yes losing weight does not mean eating boring food 🙂 Good luck on your journey!
I love this recipe. I make it with turkey bacon and use light margarine e instead of the bacon grease. Delicious!
So glad you enjoy it Jeannie 🙂
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Looks delish and is on the menu for tonight! Did you use regular chicken breasts or the thin-sliced ones?
Hi Janna, I hope you enjoy it.. I use regular chicken breast!
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Oh my gosh chick this is ahhhhhhmmmmmmaaaaazzzzzzziiiinnnnnng! Like lick the plate. My daughter currently is. We haven’t even finished dinner and I’m writing this. It was a late dinner but so glad I did this recipe. I had been putting it off because of the steps but oh man so glad I finally did this one!!! So delicious!!! Thank you!!!
Ha best comment ever!!!! So glad you all enjoyed it 🙂 Thanks for sharing
I have one question. Is 4-6 ounces of chicken breast supposed to make 4 servings? So each serving size is approximately 1-1.5 ounces?
Hi Laurie, no that reads 4 6oz chicken breast, not 4-6 oz
Disregard my last silly question. It’s not 4-6 ounces, it’s 4 six ounce pieces. Sorry.
lol I responded before seeing this one 😉
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Oh, wow. This was amazing.
I used a mixture of light cream cheese, laughing cow spread and allouette garlic and herb cheese (because I didn’t have enough cream cheese) and I added a few green onions to the mix.
I cooked them in the air fryer instead of the oven and they came out perfectly crispy and only took about 7 minutes to cook!
This was SO FLAVORFUL! I’m already so excited for the leftovers tomorrow!
Yay, so glad you enjoyed it, thanks for sharing all the info 🙂
Do I have to sear it before putting in oven?
No, but it does add to it overall
I have left over ham. Do you think I could use that instead of bacon?
Sure, I don’t see why not