Chicken & Ham Croissants

This is Leigh’s award winning Chicken Crescents recipe from our church’s cook off in 1994. Fast forward to the 5th Annual Hunt Family Christmas Cook-Off 2019 and again it was the top vote getting dish in the contest. We modified her original recipe a bit by adding ham to the filling and making them with homemade fresh croissant dough.

Ingredients:

  • 10 oz cooked ham, small cubes
  • 10 oz cooked chicken meat, small cubes or chopped
  • 1 – 8 oz package of cream cheese
  • ¼ tsp. pepper
  • 2 T. green onions, chopped
  • 6 T. melted butter
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 4 T milk
  • 2 (8 oz) package of crescent rolls (this is from the original recipe, fresh homemade croissant dough was used for pictures show.) Delicious either way.
  • 1 egg – beaten for egg wash.
  • Parsley

Preparation:

  • Blend cream cheese, 4 T. of melted butter and milk.
  • Add chicken, ham, salt, pepper and green onions. 
  • Divide crescent roll dough into four sections and press seems together. 
    • In this preparation we used the fresh homemade croissant dough and used as larger triangles.
  • Put a portion of the chicken/ham mixture into each section.  Fold ends together and twist at top.  Brush remaining butter on each and top with parsley. 
    • We changed up the recipe here too and used egg wash instead of butter.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Chicken, Ham, Cream Cheese & Butter Mixture
Filled, Rolled and Ready to Bake

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