Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites {Main Dish or Appetizer!}
Perfect as an appetizer or a main dish, these delicious bacon wrapped chicken bites are sweet and savory and simply fabulous.
Please meet my new favorite appetizer. Main dish. Snack. Whatever. Simply fabulous, these bacon-wrapped chicken bites are perfect anytime, anywhere you want to serve them.
Not just bacon and chicken, these tasty morsels are first seasoned with a zesty mix of herbs and spices and then the entire wrapped package is dredged in a mix of chili powder and brown sugar…and…I mean, you see where I’m going with this, right?
It’s like the most brilliant and delicious marriage of sweet and savory and a little heat and lots of flavor. And bacon, too, of course.
We ate these (ok, devoured these) one night for dinner. I don’t honestly remember what I even served them with. Everything else paled in comparison.
As Sally says (my sweet blogger friend who inspired me with these), this recipe quite possibly could be the key to winning just about anyone over.
I actually know real, live people who’ve eaten this amazing bacon-wrapped chicken at Sally’s house and I tell you, I’ve never heard anyone gush over food like they do when asked about the bacon chicken thingies.
I admit to kind of rolling my eyes until I actually made them myself. Gush. You’ll gush. I promise.
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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites
Ingredients
- 2-3 pounds boneless skinless, chicken breasts or chicken tenders
- 16-ounce package sliced bacon, thick cut or regular
- ⅔ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ – ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ – ½ teaspoon thyme
- ¼ – ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ – ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. If you have it, place an uncoated metal cooling rack inside a foil-lined large rimmed baking sheet and lightly coat with cooking spray. If not, line a baking pan or broiling pan with foil and lightly grease with nonstick cooking spray.
- Cut the chicken breasts into large bite-sized pieces. If using chicken tenders, cut them in half (you can fold over the chicken tender pieces when wrapping so they’ll be thicker). Place the chicken pieces in a medium bowl and toss with the salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, garlic powder and red pepper. Let it hang out while preparing the rest of the ingredients (you can cover and refrigerate up to a day).
- In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar and chili powder together. Cut the entire slab of bacon into thirds.
- Wrap each chicken piece with small strip of bacon and holding tightly, dredge them in the brown sugar/chili powder mixture. Place the chicken pieces in a single layer on the baking sheet (or rack set inside the baking sheet). If the bacon isn’t staying put, you can secure with a toothpick.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the bacon is crisp and the chicken is cooked through. Flip it once if the chicken is laying directly on the baking sheet. Serve immediately.
Notes
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Recipe Source: adapted slightly from Sally at Good Dinner Mom
78 Comments on “Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites {Main Dish or Appetizer!}”
These look delicious. Has anyone tried air frying? I think these would work well in the air fryer, just shorten the time and check.
I love this recipe.
I do it way different though. Instead of chicken, I use beef liver and baby Bella mushroom slices. I cook the bacon 1/2 way so it’s still soft and flexible.
I cut the liver into strips and season it according to step 2. Next, I wrap it around a mushroom slice then wrap that in bacon. Toothpick to secure it. Roll in sugar and chili powder and place on baking sheet. I put the oven to 400 F and bake 20-30 min until bacon is crisp and liver is cooked through.
Kids, teens, and adults beg me to make this.