Turn chicken enchiladas into finger food!
You may have noticed, we love cooking food that is easy to make and doesn’t require hours spent slaving over a hot stove. Take it one step better, and make food that’s easy to eat with your fingers and my family is in heaven.
You can’t beat food you can eat with your fingers. This recipe takes something as good as chicken enchiladas and turns them into finger food!
These were perfect for dinner, by using the jumbo size crescent rolls. But they would make great party appetizers by using the smaller size crescent rolls. – either way, you put them together just the same.
You can mix up your seasonings…….use enchilada sauce mix and enchilada sauce, or taco. I happened to have enchilada mix and taco sauce, so that’s what I used this time.
Mix cheeses, enchilada seasoning mix , sauce and chicken in a bowl.
Line cookie sheet with foil and spray with no-stick spray.
unroll crescents and lay on pan
add one heaping tablespoon of chicken mix, near the center of the two short ends
fold short ends over chicken
fold long end over and under, bringing it up on other side (fold or twist any extra dough on top)
sprinkle with additional shredded cheese
bake for 15 minutes at 375°
Summary: This recipe takes something as good as chicken enchiladas and turns them into finger food!
Ingredients
- 1 package jumbo crescent rolls
- 3 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup Mexican blend shredded cheese
- 3/4 cup cooked chicken (diced or shredded)
- 1/3 cup enchilada or taco sauce
- 2 teaspoons enchilada or taco seasoning mix
- 1/4 cup Mexican shredded cheese for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° and line cookie sheet with foil and spray with no-stick spray
- Place cream cheese and 1/2 cup Mexican cheese in small bowl and microwave for about 30-40 seconds, to soften.
- Add seasoning mix, sauce and chicken to cheese mixture and stir until combined.
- Unroll crescent rolls on prepared pan.
- Scoop 1 large heaping tablespoon of chicken mixture into the center of the two short ends of the crescent roll.
- Pull outer corners of the crescent roll over the chicken mixture, and then pull the long end over, completely enclosing filling.
- Sprinkle tops of puffs with additional shredded Mexican cheese.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
Notes
I use the Tyson grilled chicken that comes in the bags near the lunch meat.
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you may also enjoy Garlic Chicken Puffs – every time I’m asked to bring an appetizer I make them, and I’m always asked for the recipe!
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These look delicious!!
Yum!
So easy and low cost! I’ll add this recipe to my “to-do” list. Thanks!
What a great make-ahead party recipe! …This may be on the Halloween menu.
Yummy!!
Cheryl, those are so pretty. Glad you are back!
These looks so easy and delicious, Cheryl! Great idea.
Those seriously look amazing! You know they just went on my list for dinner this week!
These sound really good, I love Enchiladas. It’s always good to see a variation on a recipe.
YUM!! I love quick and easy meals and this looks perfect.
Hi Cheryl! These puffs look AMAZING! I hope your trip to Paw’s Up was a blast!! Can’t wait to hear more about it
xxoo
Great dinner idea! We love enchiladas so I am sure we will love these too!
My family will love this one!
These are a quick and easy alternative to my usual chicken enchiladas.Great after a long day at work and not time or energy for fixing dinner. I also love mixing taco sauce in with my seasoning packet. It give’s it that extra punch of flavor.
What a quick and easy idea for entertaining, so elegant, yet no one would know how simple these really are to put together.
YUM, Yum, yum!!! Those look amazing. I share your same philosopy on finger foods! Another fave would be anything you can dip! lol. Thanks for sharing!
I love dinner wrapped up in a puff….looks so cute!
Looks very tasty!
What a tasty and beautiful recipe! These are going on the to-try list for next weekend.
These look so simple and tasty! Such adorable little chicken pockets – too cute.
Yum!!! I love enchiladas but enchiladas as party food… even better!
Love this idea! I’ll totally make them, mmm.
I need these in my life. Like now!
I really love this recipe…crescent rolls make everything better!
These look yummy and super easy! Need to try them!
I’ve got lots of leftover Thanksgiving turkey! Think I need to get some crescent rolls
What a way to make chicken… so appealing. New to your blog and I love your site. Following you through the rss.
Looks delicious! Must try! Thanks!
Yum! I can’t wait to try these!
Great idea! My family will go crazy for this!
My family loves finger food like nothing else and this fits perfectly into our palate. Great idea
You just made me SO hungry and it’s only 9 am. =) I bet these would freeze well. Thoughts?
oooh Aimee, I’ve never tried freezing, but I bet they would freeze great! I may try that next time I go out of town, I’ll make up a batch ahead of time for the family.
I’m trying these tonight! Thanks so much!
Oh these look great. Will be making these in the next few days.
These look so yummy! I’ll be featuring them this evening on my blog – and my link party is still open…you should link up now, or come visit again on Tuesdays!
Smiles,
Melanie
These look awesome. I pinned your post!
I made these tonight and they were delicious!!
I saw this recipe and couldn’t resist. Did exchange the chicken for hamburger and the filling tastes awesome. Just waiting now for the whole thing to come out of the oven. Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
They turned out great! Takes about 3/4 lb of hamburger as the substitute.
These are in the oven as I type
Thank You for sharing this. I sure am one for simple and easy meals
I have a habit of doing things like this….
Although I did use the whole box of cream cheese and the whole packet of mix…My bad as I didn’t see the 2tsp
I made this last night and it was a hit!
Update on the dinner…Everyone loved it! My kids even ate the left overs for a snack, now that’s a winner in my book! Thank You so much for sharing this
It’s so nice to get out the “same ole same meals”
Made these tonight – added some chopped cilantro & chopped onions to the chicken mixture. Extremely yummy and easy peasy!
Do you have this on Pinterest? If so, can you give me the link? I’d like to pin it, if your do. Or, from here, with your permission, of course. Please email me at gloria(dot)vincent(at)yahoo(dot)com to let me know?
ALSO: I’d also like to ask another question. Thank you!
Best,
Gloria
I made this dish this past Sunday after seeing it on food gawker. I have four kids – one of whom is very picky. They and hubby all loved it (and me). I garnished it with fresh avocado and also had refried beans and Mexican rice. It was yummy. I kind of fudged on the quantities in recipe, so I had filling left over. I made a layered chicken enchilada casserole type thing with the leftover filling (that was delish, too). I WILL make again. THANK YOU!
I made these tonight and usually my picky husband won’t eat anything new. But they smelled so good that he tried them and loved them. Thank you for a simple and basic recipe that I can do quickly after work, not break the pocket book, and both of us enjoy them!!!!
I made these tonight and they were YUMMY!!!! I added a sauce made of cream of chicken soup, cream cheese, and taco seasoning. Gooooodddd stufffff
I made these and they were amazing!! I will suggest them to my friends and family! They were a hit
Thanks!
I decided to try these for dinner tonight and they were fantastic. My family loves the flavor of a roaster chicken but we’re not big fans of dark meat. This was a great way to use it up without anyone even caring that it was dark meat. Most of them I stuck with the just chicken and cheese combo. But for my little batch I chopped up some tomato and green pepper from the garden and added it. Then for fun we dipped them in nacho cheese sauce. It was a huge hit!
I made these tonight and my kids loved them. I doubled the recipe because the can of crescent rolls had 8 in them, and I think that I would put a bit less taco sauce. I think that you could make the chicken mixture ahead of time and put them together after work for a quick dinner.Thanks for the good recipe!
Yummy… Looks and sounds fantastic! Need to try it soon!