Our Take On Alice Springs Chicken

We rarely go to Outback Steakhouse. We find the food to be mediocre and slightly overpriced. However the one dish we have enjoyed there was the Alice Springs Chicken.
It’s a chicken breast topped with sautéed mushrooms, bacon, melted Monterey Jack and Cheddar and topped with honey mustard sauce.
It’s a very delicious dish and I am glad that my husband and I have found a way to make it home. For less money and for fewer calories!

We take 2 chicken breasts and cook it in a pan with light oil and cracked pepper once it’s cooked set aside. Fry up 2 slices of bacon (one slice for each chicken breast). If you want to make it even healthier use turkey bacon! Once bacon is done frying saute some mushrooms, once they are done its time to put it all together.

Slightly grease a baking dish. Take a slice of bacon cut it in half and lay it on the chicken making an “x”. Lay some sautéed mushrooms on top of that. Then add some honey mustard (IF you like it) we normally make our own honey mustard. Just add honey and yellow mustard together until you find your perfect mixture.
We also like to mince up some onion and add that to the honey mustard mixture. You can also add a couple teaspoons of your favorite BBQ sauce if you like.
Then we top it off with 1/4 cup of shredded cheese. We used a cheddar jack.
Here is what ours looked like before putting it into the oven:



Pop it in the over for 10-15 until its all heated and cheese is melted!




For those of you who are interested here is the nutritional information for the dish as prepared at Outback Steakhouse:
Calories: 1327
Carbs: 20.3
Fat: 92
Protein: 102

YIKES! 1327 calories and 92 grams of FAT?! That is insane! Here is the nutritional information for our homemade version

Calories: 488
Carbs: 22
Fat: 18
Protein: 58