Crescent Chicken
Here is an easy go-to chicken dinner for a busy weeknight! Even if you have frozen chicken, you can make this dinner fairly easily! Let me show you how!
Crescent Chicken is an oldie but a goodie on this blog of mine. It’s made with canned crescent rolls stuffed with a cream cheese chicken mixture and baked up for a super comforting week-night dinner idea!
And if you’re looking for other easy weeknight crescent roll dinners, be sure to check out these Ham, Turkey, and Cheese Crescent Squares and Crescent Chicken Taco Pinwheels.
I first heard about Crescent Chicken from a co-worker several years ago. I love a good crescent roll, so I did some recipe researching. I made this one by combining several things I liked from other recipes.
Why I love this Recipe
⭐️ Kid-Friendly -It uses crescent rolls, which my kids love!
⭐️ Totally customizable –The chicken mixture can be customized. You could even do a taco seasoning version!
⭐️ Let the slow cooker or instant pot do the hard work! – You can cook your chicken with one of these methods, and then all you have to do is shredded it and make the filling!
⭐️ Use a rotisserie chicken – A rotisserie chicken would be great for this recipe too!!! Those pack a ton of flavor!
recipe notes
I love to cook my chicken in the Instant Pot or the Slow Cooker. Here are some tips on each method:
Instant Pot Instructions for Cooking Chicken: Place chicken in Instant Pot and season with creole seasoning. I add about 1/2 cup water or chicken broth. You can even add different flavor ingredients depending on what you are making with this. For example, add some salsa for enchiladas or tacos or barbecue sauce and onions for wraps. Set pressure to high and I manually set timer for 15 minutes. If chicken is frozen, I set it for 20 minutes.
Slow Cooker Instructions: Place chicken in slow cooker. Season with creole seasoning. Add 1 cup of water or chicken broth. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours.
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Easy Crescent Chicken
An easy chicken dinner idea using crescent roll dough and a cream cheese chicken mixture for the filling. It's baked up and topped with cheese.
Ingredients
- 3 cooked boneless chicken breasts (see notes below)
- 5 oz. cream cheese
- 2 tbsp softened butter
- 2 cups shredded colby jack cheese (divided into thirds)
- 1-2 tbsp diced pimento
- 2 cans crescent rolls
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup milk
- Salt and pepper or creole seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a saucepan over medium-low heat, combine cream of chicken, milk, and a third of the shredded cheese. Season with salt and pepper or creole seasoning. Heat until cheese melts and remove from heat.
- In a bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in chicken, another third of shredded cheese, and pimento. Season to taste.
- Next pour half of the soup mixture into the bottom of a casserole dish.
- Separate crescent rolls into triangles. Place a heaping tablespoon of chicken mixture on to wide end of triangle and roll up tucking in the sides a little.
- Arrange crescents over the soup i the casserole dish. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until golden.
- Add last third of shredded cheese and bake 3 more minutes.
- You can serve it with the leftover soup mixture if you'd like.
Notes
Instant Pot Instructions for Cooking Chicken: Place chicken in Instant Pot and season with creole seasoning. I add about 1/2 cup water or chicken broth. You can even add different flavor ingredients depending on what you are making with this. For example, add some salsa for enchiladas or tacos or barbecue sauce and onions for wraps. Set pressure to high and I manually set timer for 15 minutes. If chicken is frozen, I set it for 20 minutes.
Slow Cooker Instructions: Place chicken in slow cooker. Season with creole seasoning. Add 1 cup of water or chicken broth. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours.
Rotisserie Chicken - A rotisserie chicken would be even quicker and easier! These also pack a ton of flavor.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 395Total Fat: 28gSaturated Fat: 16gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 113mgSodium: 576mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 0gSugar: 1gProtein: 31g
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Goodness girl! This recipe looks fabulous!! Thank you so much for linking to me! You are just one of my very favorite people! EVER! Happy Friday to you!
Wow Jaren!!! I LOVE your new design!!! And this recipe! And congrats on #4! That’s SO exciting!! I’m happy you’re feeling a bit better. Hopefully it keeps up! Are you going to find out if it’s a boy or girl? So many fun things happening for you! XO!
Congratulations on your baby!! How exciting, although I’m sorry you have been feeling so sick. Did you know Cathy from Lemon Tree Dwelling is expecting her fourth too?
This dinner looks amazing, and I hope you were feeling well enough to enjoy it. Thanks for the great recipe!
Hi there, I just saw this recipe for the Crescent Chicken, and I was just wandering if you know if after cooking the chicken in the slow cooker and letting it cool if you could freeze it? I do my hamburger like that it makes dinner a breeze to fix. 🙂 Thanks so much for any help and for these delicious meals and also on Baby 4, hope all goes well and good luck.
I definitely think you could freeze it. I do that with hamburger meat too. Thanks for visiting!
I was just wondering what temperature you cook the crescent chicken at?
Hi Chelsea! I bake it at 350 degrees. Sorry about that!! I updated the recipe. Thanks so much for catching it!
Lovely recipe. Congrats on your new arrival! I am always looking for new recipe with chicken, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Allison!
Hi Jaren,
If I don’t have a slowcooker do you have another easy way to cook the chicken? and I also can’t find the link for the chicken-slowcooker method! Any help would be AWESOME! 🙂
Thanks!
Before I started using my slow cooker to prepare the chicken, I would just boil the chicken breasts for about 20 minutes. I always seasoned my water with either seasoned salt or salt and pepper while boiling too. Let them cool and dice up. The link is to Mix and Match Mama, my favorite blog ever! Here it is: https://www.mixandmatchmama.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-perfect-chicken.html
Thanks for visiting Hannah!!
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Good luck with your new baby. By the way, you have a beautiful
family!!! May God bless you and your lovely family.
Thank you so much Janet!!
What is the tbsp of melted butter for? to baste the crescents with?
Thanks!
Hi Yahna! I updated the recipe. You can omit the tablespoon of melted butter. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks so much for a great recipe! I made this for dinner last night and it was a huge hit! I have 4 teenagers and finding a recipe that they all like (as well as dad) is almost impossible, but everyone loved this one! I was a little nervous about using pimento, because I have never used it in a recipe before, but it really did add that extra oomph and I am so happy I didn’t leave it out!
Congratulations on baby #4!
Thanks so much for letting me know Crystal!! That is one of my favorite recipes! It is so hard to please 6 people, so I am so happy it went well! I felt the same about pimento until I started using it. You’re right because it does give that extra “oomph!”
Thank you Jaren for another nice recipe.
This was awesome!! I halved the recipe and pan fried the chicken instead of boiling for more flavor! This was a delicious comfort meal!! I will definitely make this again!! Thanks!
I’m so excited you liked it! I LOVE making this! Pan-frying the chicken sounds really good!
maybe I am missing it, but how long do. You cook this for??
Thank you so much Mary! I updated the recipe to a new format a few days ago, and I apparently cut off the last few steps of the recipe! Thanks so much for letting me know!
What is the nutrional info at ion that goes with this reciepe? I love it but have to be careful. Thanks
Hi Laura! I’m sorry but I do not include nutritional information on my recipes for various reasons. The calories and fat in this recipe can be lowered by using low-fat cream cheese, low-sodium cream of chicken, and reduced-fat crescent rolls. Thanks for visiting!!
The recipe says “Next pour half of the soup mixture into the bottom of a casserole dish.” But it never says what to do with the other half?
Hi Sue! In the Notes section, I mentioned you can serve them with the leftover soup mixture if you’d like. Sometimes people like to drizzle a little of the soup over their crescents. Thanks for visiting!
I am going to try this but with the already Roasted Chicken, I would then just need to debone it and use the breasts and thighs…can’t wait to try it!
Hi Johanna! I think it will work great!
What a wonderful recipe! Yummy!
Thanks so much! We love this one too!!