Keto Crack Chicken Bake

My Keto Crack Hen Bake combines the tactic I take advantage of for rooster bake dinners with the flavorful crack rooster sauce so many individuals love! Even individuals who aren’t consuming Keto will love this recipe, and children will devour it!

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Most likely everybody who’s curious about low-carb consuming has heard of the well-known Crack Hen that you’ll find all around the internet. I’ve been seeing recipes with that identify for years, however so a lot of them had been for shredded rooster with a creamy sauce and used Ranch Dressing combine, and that didn’t attraction to me a lot.

After which someday I had the concept of utilizing my methodology for the straightforward dinners I name rooster bakes with a sauce impressed by the Crack Hen substances and this Keto Crack Hen Bake was the scrumptious outcome! And for the Ranch taste I used the seasonings from Grandma Denny’s Do-it-yourself Ranch Dip!

Kara and I made this a couple of instances to get it excellent, and after I examined the ultimate model, I instantly sat down and devoured a serving of it for an early dinner! And in case you like rooster, bacon, cream cheese, cheese, and a contact of Ranch taste, I guess you’ll love this concept for a simple meal the entire household goes to like!

What substances do you want for this recipe?

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• thick-sliced bacon
• boneless, skinless rooster breasts
• Garlic Powder (affiliate hyperlink)
• Onion Powder (affiliate hyperlink)
• dried Dill Weed (affiliate hyperlink)
• Beau Monde Seasoning (affiliate hyperlink)
• black pepper
• cream cheese
• bitter cream
• mayo
• shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• shredded Monterey Jack cheese
• inexperienced onions

What do I imply by Hen Bake Dinners?

Recipes I name Hen Bakes are fast dinners that begin with 4 rooster breasts. The rooster is rubbed with seasoning, shortly browned in a frying pan, often minimize into strips, coated with a flavorful sauce or topping, and baked within the oven for 20-25 minutes. The short browning and baking the rooster with flavor-adding substances has constantly produced nice outcomes for me. (Look beneath for a listing of different recipes the place I’ve used this system.)

Why is that this recipe referred to as Crack Hen?

The recipe known as Crack Hen as a result of it’s imagined to be addictive in the way in which medication are. I don’t particularly love the identify, however I do suppose it conveys how completely scrumptious this creamy rooster and bacon recipe is!

What in case you don’t need a lot fats?

There’s no query that Keto Crack Hen Bake as written is a excessive fats dish, appropriate for the Keto eating regimen. For those who’re not consuming Keto and simply don’t need that a lot fats, I’d encourage you to strive variations like utilizing a bit much less bacon, utilizing reduced-fat cream cheese, bitter cream, and/or mayo, and perhaps utilizing a bit much less cheese. I haven’t tried making a model with much less fats like that, however these substances are so scrumptious collectively that I’m betting it would nonetheless be very flavorful.

Can you utilize Ranch Combine to season this Keto Crack Hen Bake?

I like my Grandma Denny’s Do-it-yourself Ranch Dip and I used to be glad I may use the substances she makes use of to season the rooster and the sauce for this recipe. However I do know that Beau Monde Seasoning (affiliate hyperlink) gained’t be an ingredient everybody has available. For those who don’t wish to purchase that, simply substitute the spices used right here for about 2 tablespoons of packaged Ranch combine, no downside!

Learn how to Make Keto Crack Hen Bake:

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1. Preheat oven to 375F/190C.
2. Take cream cheese out of the fridge to melt.
3. Slice bacon into skinny strips and begin cooking it in a frying pan over medium-high warmth.
4. Whereas bacon cooks mix Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Dill Weed, Beau Monde Seasoning, and black pepper.
5. Trim rooster breasts and rub on each side with seasoning combine, utilizing about half of it.
6. When bacon is completed take away to a paper towel. Reserve 2 tablespoons bacon grease. 
7. Warmth bacon grease within the frying pan over medium-high warmth, add rooster breasts and prepare dinner till each side are browned however rooster isn’t cooked via.
8. When rooster is browned, transfer to a chopping board. Minimize every bit into 4 or 5 lengthwise strips.
9. Spray a 9″ x 13″ casserole dish with non-stick spray and organize rooster strips within the dish. 
10. Put softened cream cheese in a bowl and microwave a couple of seconds, or till it’s fairly mushy.
11. Chop up half of the cooked bacon.
12. Combine collectively softened cream cheese, crumbled bacon, bitter cream, mayo, sharp cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup of Monterey Jack cheese, and the opposite half of the seasoning combine.
13. Unfold combination over the rooster.
14. Sprinkle over the opposite 1/2 cup of Monterey Jack cheese.
15. Bake rooster 20-25 minutes, or till it’s effervescent sizzling and beginning to barely brown.
16. Whereas rooster cooks, thinly slice inexperienced onions.
17. When rooster is completed, sprinkle with sliced inexperienced onions and different half of the cooked bacon.
18. Serve sizzling.
19. It will keep good within the fridge for fairly a couple of days and reheats properly. I haven’t frozen any but, however I’m assured it would freeze properly, though I can’t think about most individuals can have many leftovers to freeze!

Make it a low-carb meal:

I’d serve Keto Crack Hen Bake with a vegetable facet dish like Stir-Fried Spinach with Garlic and Parmesan, Inexperienced Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts, or Garlicky Inexperienced Beans Stir Fry. It could even be scrumptious with a salad like Cucumber Salad with Balsamic Dressing, Kalyn’s Low-Carb Coleslaw, or Kalyn’s Favourite Child Arugula Salad.

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Low-Carb Weight loss plan / Low-Glycemic Weight loss plan / South Seaside Weight loss plan Strategies:
It is a good dinner possibility for any low-carb or Keto eating regimen plan. It’s too excessive in fats for any part of the unique South Seaside Weight loss plan, but when the concept actually appeals to you I feel you can make a model utilizing lower-fat substances that might nonetheless be tasty.

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