This Keto BBQ Chicken Bake is an easy one-pan dinner with minimal ingredients and minimal clean-up. It's a win-win!
This Keto BBQ Chicken Bake is a super easy weeknight meal that's low-carb, gluten-free, and totally delicious enough to cure even the most ridiculous BBQ craving! If you're really in the BBQ spirit, this BBQ chicken bake is really, really, delicious with our Keto "Potato" Salad!
You can eat this BBQ chicken bake as-is or serve it up on a bed of shredded cabbage or coleslaw, COLESLAW...how did we not think of that before now?! Yeah, coleslaw would be SO good with this.
Ingredients in Keto BBQ Chicken
- 1 8-oz bottle Keto-friendly BBQ sauce
- 1 ½ lbs chicken breasts
- 1 ½ cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- ½ red onion thinly sliced
- ½ green bell pepper diced
- ½ cup pickled jalapeños
- ¼ cup minced cilantro
How to make this Keto BBQ Chicken Bake
We start by baking some chicken breasts in a bottle of Keto-friendly BBQ sauce, we usually opt for Primal Kitchen but you can use whatever brand you like or even make your own.
After baking the chicken in the BBQ sauce, we top the chicken with cheese, red onion, green bell pepper, pickled jalapeños, and cilantro. The result is a saucy, cheesy, flavor explosion that will quickly become a weekly menu staple.
A note on the nutritional information
As always, you can find the full nutritional breakdown including the carb count (total carbs and net carbs) at the bottom of the recipe card. You can find the serving size/yield at the top of the recipe card. You should always double-check your specific ingredients as different brands’ ingredients may have different nutritional values.
To get a specific serving size you’ll want to weigh the final dish then divide by the number of servings. We can’t provide this information as your cooking style will vary from ours as well as the brand ingredients you choose to use.
Keto BBQ Chicken Bake
Ingredients
- 1 8-oz bottle Keto-friendly BBQ sauce
- 1 ½ lbs chicken breasts
- 1 ½ cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- ½ red onion thinly sliced
- ½ green bell pepper diced
- ½ cup pickled jalapenos
- ¼ cup minced cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat the oven the 375° F.
- Place the BBQ sauce in a 10" or larger cast iron skillet and arrange the chicken breasts in the sauce in a single layer. Spoon some of the sauce over the tops of the chicken to cover completely. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove the skillet from the oven and turn over to broil. Top the chicken with the cheese, onion, bell pepper, and jalapeños. Return to the oven and broil for 5 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.
- Top with cilantro before serving.
Lisa says
That looks delicious!
Jen says
Hi, what cheese can I substitute for Monterey Jack seeing I don't like that cheese?
Cast Iron Keto says
Smoked gouda or smoked mozzarella would be delicious in this!
tina willis says
is this precooked chicken? 25 minutes seems like a short bake time for chicken breast.
Cast Iron Keto says
Nope, not pre-cooked. 25 minutes + the 5 minutes of broil time works perfectly for normal-sized chicken breasts but do always use a thermometer to check the temperature making sure it gets to 165° F.
Joe Paci says
I made this tonight and used diced jalapeños from a jar and diced red peppers instead of green. This bake was DELICIOUS!!! My only other suggestion, and I'll do this myself next time is to pound the chicken breasts 1st. The normal thickness of the chicken breast was too much.