Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Chicken Pillows

I pinned this recipe on Pinterest weeks ago and Derek's mom and I were both anxious to try it. Derek's dad has an unfounded fear of cream cheese [but he eats cheesecake... it's a strangle little scenario] so he never wanted to try them. For Derek's mom's birthday we decided to make them anyway and I'm so glad that we did. They were really tasty and Derek's dad even went back for more!! They were much smaller than I was anticipating - expect each person to eat 2 - 3 pillows if you don't have a lot of sides to go with it. I ended up using 1 and 1/2 cans of crescent rolls and a little extra chicken and I think it make 12 pillows... and there was only one leftover. Enjoy!

Ingredients


  • 1 (8 oz) can Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 2-3 cups cooked and shredded chicken
  • 1 egg
  • 1 sleeve Saltine Crackers crushed
  • 1 can cream of chicken soup
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 spoonfuls sour cream
  • 3/4 cup shredded cheese (or more to your liking)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 F
  2. Soften 1/4 cup butter and 8oz. block of cream cheese. Then stir to a smooth consistency. Add cooked shredded chicken to the bowl.
  3. Lay out the 8 crescents on a cookie sheet. Stretch the crescent out.
  4. Place a couple spoon fulls of the creamy chicken mixture into the center of the crescent to fill it. Then fold the crescent around the mixture so that none of it is showing. I'll call this the "pillow".
  5. In a separate smaller bowl, put the egg and a little bit of water, maybe a couple Tablespoons worth and beat together.Dip the "pillow" into the blended egg. After dipping into the blended egg, proceed to dip it into the crushed saltine crackers and place on cookie sheet. Repeat for the remaining 7 crescents.
  6. Cook the pillows at 400 F for 20 minutes. Keep an eye on them your oven might cook them quicker.
  7. For the sauce topping: Put can of cream of chicken and milk into a sauce pan. Add as much milk as you want to get it to the consistency you want i.e. thicker or runnier. When hot enough add 2 spoon fulls of sour cream and cheese to your liking.
Original recipe can be found at Chef in Training

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