Chicken Pillows
 
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Buttery crescent rolls wrapped around creamy chicken and dipped in butter and breadcrumbs, covered with a delicious creamy chicken sauce.
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Recipe type: Chicken
Cuisine: Dinner
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • 2 pkgs refrigerated crescent rolls (each pack has 8 rolls in it)
  • 2-3 cups precooked and shredded chicken
  • 2 green onions, thinly sliced
  • 1 can of mushrooms, drained (optional)
  • 1 (8oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
  • salt and pepper
  • ½ cup butter, melted
  • 1½ cups seasoned bread crumbs
  • 1 can of cream of chicken soup
  • ⅔-1 cup milk (I start with ⅔ cup and use a little more if I need to thin it out)
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • pinch of sage or poultry seasoning (optional)
  • ½ tsp chicken bullion
  • ¼ cup sour cream
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. combine the shredded chicken, onion, mushrooms, and cream cheese, add a few shakes of salt and pepper. Mix well until completely combined. (if your chicken wasn't salted much when it cooked, add a little more salt, if you are using a rotisserie chicken a few shakes should be fine)
  3. Open your crescent rolls and lay them out one at a time, use your hands to press them out and make their surface as big as possible, this will make them easier to fold and seal.
  4. Add a scoop of the mixture to the center. Fold over the long edge and then seal up sides,using fingers to pinch and seal the edges. Repeat until you have done them all.
  5. Once you have them all filled and sealed, set up a dipping station with the bowl of melted butter, bowl of bread crumbs and a cookie sheet to put them on.
  6. One at a time dip the chicken pillows first in the butter and then into the bread crumbs, make sure to thoroughly coat it with bread crumbs. Place it on the cookie sheet and repeat with the remainder of th-e chicken pillows.
  7. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. I like to flip them over after 20 minutes so both sides get evenly browned
  8. For the gravy, add the cream of chicken soup, milk, lemon juice, pinch of sage, and chicken bullion in a small sauce pan and bring to a simmer, mix in the sour cream. Add more milk if you want it thinner. Serve over chicken pillows and on the rice.
  9. We prefer to serve them with rice, but mashed potatoes would be good too. Enjoy!
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/chicken-pillows/