Bacon wrapped chicken

Recipe by Casey76

  • Time needed: 20 mins prep 1 hr cooking
  • Calories per serving: 480
  • Servings: 3
  • Difficulty: 2
  • Rating: 4.78 based on 18 reviews

A tasty filling meal combining chunky tomato sauce and savoury bacon wrapped chicken

Ingredients

• 2 medium onions - chopped into large chunks
• 1 large carrot - chopped into small dice
• 3 garlic cloves - chopped into small pieces
• 1 red pepper - chopped into small pieces
• 200g mushrooms - quartered
• 1 pint of passata
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 25ml balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp olive oil3 chicken breasts - cut into halves lengthwise
• 6 rashers of streaky bacon30g hard cheese (cheddar or provolone)

Method

Heat the oil in a heavy based pan and add the onion and carrot. Cook until the onion and carrot are softened and are starting to brown.

Add the pepper and garlic and cook for a further five minutes before adding the mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms are slightly reduced then add the passata, balsamic vinegar and salt.

Reduce the heat and cover, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes until reduced and thickened.

In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180°C (fan)/ 200°C.

Cut the chicken breasts in two lengthways and wrap each piece in 1 or 2 rashers of streaky bacon

When the sauce is cooked, spoon into an ovenproof dish or dishes, reserving a little. Arrange the bacon wrapped chicken on top of the sauce and spoon over the remaining sauce. Top with the grated cheese.

Cook in the oven for 20 mins and serve.

19 reviews for “Bacon wrapped chicken”

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    Very easy to make and tasted delicious.

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    Easy to make, so tasty, and the kids loved it too

  • review by:
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    This was absolutely gorgeous… Really quick to make too…

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    Tasty and filling served with spicy broccoli (recipe on here). The only change I made was to crumble a chicken oxo into the sauce as it cooked to counteract the tomato and it worked. Nice dinner!

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    Great recipe. I cut the chicken in half vertically and used one strip of bacon each then cooked them in the oven. I then made the sauce separately to reduce the overall cooking time to around 35 minutes. Served with brown rice, my estimate is 450 cals the lot – I left the cheese out as I didn’t think it was needed.

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    This was easy to make and delicious. Would recommend.

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    Tried a scaled down version (for one) – full of flavour and filling. Thanks for this recipe.
    Meant to put 5 stars in the rating!

  • review by:
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    Easy to make and tasty – made 3 times so far, a bit too much balsamic vinegar for our tastes but once we scaled it down it was perfect!

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    Super easy and extremely tasty. I’ll be making this again. Goes well with a green side salad.

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    This was one of the easiest and delicious meals I have ever made,will definitely be making it again.

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