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Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce

How can you go wrong with bacon, bourbon, and bbq sauce? This Bacon Wrapped chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce is super easy to make.

  • Prep10 min
  • Cook35 min
  • Total45 min
  • Serves4
Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce

Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce makes a super easy weeknight meal and only requires 4 ingredients, plus salt and pepper.

Bourbon, Bacon, BBQ Sauce. You can’t go wrong with the 3 B’s.

Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce in a baking dish.

Bourbon BBQ Sauce

The bourbon gets mixed into your favorite BBQ sauce. I used Jack Daniels Honey, but you can use any bourbon.

How To Make BBacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce

Chicken breasts are cut in half lengthwise to maximize the bacon and bbq sauce to chicken ratio.

The chicken is brushed with bourbon bbq sauce and wrapped in bacon

Into the oven the chicken goes for 20 minutes. It’s basted again and placed back in the oven to cook 10-15 more minutes. One last baste and a few minutes under the broiler crisps up the bacon and finishes this meal off.

It’s a super tasty meal that’s a cinch to make!

Cooked BBQ Chicken in a 9x13-inch baking dish, bowl of corn, and bottle of bourbon.

Recipe Tip

USe regular-cut bacon, not thick-cut bacon. It takes too long to crisp up.

Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce in 9x13-inch baking dish.

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Recipe originally published July 28, 2015.

Ingredients

Steps

  1. 1

    Heat oven to 350 degrees.

  2. 2

    In a small bowl stir together bbq sauce and Jack Daniels.

  3. 3

    Cook bacon about halfway. You want it to still be pliable so you can wrap it around the chicken.

  4. 4

    Cut each chicken breast in half lengthwise so that you have 2 pieces that are the shape of chicken tenders.

  5. 5

    Season chicken to taste with seasoned salt and pepper. Brush all sides with BBQ Sauce.

  6. 6

    Wrap a piece of bacon around each piece of chicken.

  7. 7

    Place chicken in a baking pan.

  8. 8

    Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, baste with BBQ Sauce and return to oven for 10-15 minutes.

  9. 9

    Remove from oven. Baste one more time and return to oven and BROIL for 3-5 minutes.

Nutrition

  • Calories335

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