If you're looking for snacks for game day you can't go wrong with this easy recipe!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- This crescent roll recipe is so incredibly easy - it is the perfect side for your weeknight dinner.
- It's one of those finger foods that everyone loves! These creamy chicken crescent rolls are as welcome at a church potluck as they are sitting next to a bowl of steaming hot soup - and they're perfect for game day!
- Because the chicken is pre-cooked, this is one of those fun dinners that the whole family can help make. Setting up a crescent rolling station is a great way to include your family in the kitchen!
If you love creamy chicken enchiladas (I know I do!) you'll love these.
Shredded or finely chopped chicken is mixed with cream cheese and chiles then rolled up in a crescent roll with a slice of Pepper-Jack cheese. It's all creamy, gooey, cheesy, spicy perfection.
🧾 Ingredients
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🔪 Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix cream cheese, shredded chicken, chiles, cilantro and cumin. Add salt and pepper to your preference.
- Open the package of crescent roll dough. Arrange the crescent dough into pieces on a large cookie sheet. Lay a triangle of pepper-jack cheese on each flat crescent roll
- Add a heaping scoop of the cheesy chicken mixture to the crescent roll dough.
- Roll up your chicken crescent rolls and bake in the oven until golden brown.
🥄 Equipment
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🥫 Storage
- You can refrigerate your leftover chicken and cream cheese crescent rolls in an airtight container for 3-5 days.
- If you are a big fan of making freezer meals, I have great news for you. These crescent roll-ups are perfect for the freezer, and will last up to 3 months in the freezer.
- Whether stored in the refrigerator or freezer, it is very easy to reheat these buttery crescent rolls in the oven!
📖 Variations
- Try using taco meat instead of chicken.
- Use leftover rotisserie chicken instead starting from scratch.
- Instead of crescent roll ups, stuff a spoonful of the chicken mixture into biscuits.
- If you don't like pepper jack cheese, try using cheddar cheese for a milder flavor.
- Try lining the crescent rolls on the bottom of a casserole dish, and scoop the chicken mixture on top to make a crescent casserole!
- Make with chopped black beans or tempeh to keep it vegetarian.
💭 Tips
Expert Tip: Use a rotisserie chicken to make this fast!
- When your crescent rolls are close to done, heat up some butter on the stovetop over medium heat. Brush the melted butter over the crescent rolls when they come out of the oven!
- For game day pile a bunch of these on a serving tray and serve with some hot queso dip.
👩🍳 FAQs
This is one of my favorite meals because it is so convenient on those busy weeknights. You can assemble this easy recipe in advance and store it in your refrigerator or freezer until you are ready to pop it in the oven! Whether that be for tonights dinner, the next day or a couple months down the line (if you're storing in your freezer).
The beauty of this chicken recipe is that it does not matter what chicken you use. You can pre-cook a large batch of chicken breast in an instant pot and use the leftover chicken. Any kind of chicken leftovers work great for this recipe, and even canned chicken would work too!
Absolutely! Try replacing the shredded chicken with chopped black beans.
📚 Related recipes
- These crescent rolls always get me in the mood for soup. My chicken enchilada soup is a lighter version of this comfort food recipe!
- This easy cheese biscuit recipe is one of my favorite recipes. It is simple to make, and the texture is buttery and flaky.
- My chicken casserole with stovetop stuffing uses similarly simple ingredients and is just as indulgent!
🍽️ Serve with...
- These flaky crescent rolls pair well with a warm bowl of my copycat Panera Bread black bean soup.
- My Mexican street corn soup is spicy, tangy and creamy - and it is the perfect match for these delicious crescent chicken bundles.
- If you're looking fo a great flavor combination, my black eyed pea soup with collards and bacon is the right recipe for you. It is rustic and simple to make, and is a wonderful companion to these crescent rolls.
📞 The last word
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📖 Recipe
Creamy Chicken Crescent Rolls
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Ingredients
- 1-½ cups chicken, cooked and chopped fine or shredded
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon green chiles
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- 8 crescent rolls, canned, from the dairy section - unbaked
- 4 slices Pepper-Jack cheese, cut diagonally
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F.
- Mix the chicken, cream cheese, chiles, cilantro, and cumin.
- Taste and add salt and pepper if desired.
- Open the can of crescent rolls and separate the dough into 8 pieces according to the instructions on the package.
- Lay a triangle of the Pepper-Jack cheese on each flat crescent roll.
- Add a heaping tablespoon of the chicken mixture.
- Roll up and bake according to instructions on the package - usually 350 for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Serve hot.
Notes
- Refrigerate leftovers.
- These may be frozen for up to 3 months.
- Substitute biscuits for crescent rolls.
- Use taco meat instead of chicken.
- Or, make with chopped black beans to keep it vegetarian.
- For game day pile a bunch of these on a serving tray and serve with some hot queso dip.
- When your crescent rolls are close to done, heat up some butter on the stovetop over medium heat. Brush the melted butter over the crescent rolls when they come out of the oven!
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Nanda Pamungkas
I should try this one, its looks delicious!
Marye Audet
It is one of my favorites. 🙂