Creamy Chicken Pockets - Diet Version
Triangles of crescent roll dough are wrapped around a mixture of cream cheese, chicken, and onions to make a delightfully easy and calorie conscious meal. With the crisp outside and creamy filling, this recipe is a real crowd-pleaser!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
- ½ cups mince Onion
- 2 teaspoons mince Garlic, Cloves
- 3 ounces soften Cream Cheese, Reduced Fat
- 1 tablespoon Butter, Reduced Fat #1
- 2 ⅔ cups cook and shred Chicken, Boneless Breasts
- ¼ teaspoons Salt
- ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
- ¼ teaspoons Season Salt
- 2 tablespoons Skim Milk
- 16 ounces Refrigerated Crescent Rolls, Reduced Fat
- 1 tablespoon Butter, Reduced Fat #2
- ¼ cups Bread Crumbs, Italian
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- In a large skillet over medium heat, cook onions and garlic in olive oil, until onions are translucent.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, cook onions and garlic in olive oil, until onions are translucent.
- In a medium bowl, mix together cream cheese and butter #1 until smooth.
- Add in chicken, onions and garlic. Stir in salt, pepper, seasoning salt and milk. Mix well.
- Separate crescent roll dough into triangles. Divide the filling evenly among the crescent rolls, being sure to put the filling in the center.
- Fold up the corners to seal the pockets. Press and seal firmly.
- Place pockets on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Melt butter #2, brush on top of pockets and sprinkle with bread crumbs.
- Bake at 375 for 11-13 minutes, or until golden brown.
2 Comments
Join the discussionI had major issues with this recipe. The proportions for the filling are all wrong. If you only do 1 tbsp of filling per pocket you’ll end up with a ton of leftover filling; the math doesn’t add up. Also, how is this a dinner? One pocket is way too small of a portion. Recipe should either be classified as an appetizer or increase the portions to make it a dinner portion.
Hi Miriam, we have updated the recipe. It seems more filling needs to be added so the portion is heartier within the crescent roll. Thank you.