Creamy Chicken en Croute

 Don't let the name scare you, this is a simple recipe that you family will love and beg for more.

Let me start off by apologizing for forgetting an after picture but it was so delicious and my family was too hungry to wait for me to photograph the final product. I started off by letting two packages of cream cheese come to room temp and I cheated by sitting them on the stove while I started cooking my bacon so that they would heat up faster. I only needed a few pieces of bacon but cooked the whole package since I had it out and I used it in my potato soup that I was making to go with these. I let the bacon cool and drained most of the fat from the pan then added my chicken breast that were seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder. I seared both sides then threw the pan into a 350 degree oven for about 10-15 minutes until it was cooked all the way through but not dry. While the chicken was cooking, I chopped up the bacon and my chives.

I then added this to the cream cheese that was warm enough to mix easily. I then added salt and pepper to taste and added a shake of garlic and onion powder each. Once the chicken was cooked and cooled, I cut up half of a chicken breast into tiny shred like pieces so that it would blend into the cream cheese and there were no chunks of chicken but you can have chunks if you like. 

Once everything was blended, I opened up two packages of croissants and started separating them into groups of two. I pinched two triangles together to make them rectangles and added about 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of the creamy mixture in the middle and folded over the croissant to make a square. I cut off the extra and made more filled pastries with them, I ended up making about 14 of these and had 3 tablespoons of mixture left over which I threw into the fridge and will use for something else later. I put these on a cooking sheet and into the 350 degree oven until golden brown on top, about 20-30 minutes.

You can make these into pinwheels kind of like cinnamon rolls or this way, they both taste amazing.

Ingredients: 

1 teaspoon of garlic powder

1 teaspoon of onion powder

salt to taste

pepper to taste

2 packages of room temp cream cheese

1 cup of chopped/shredded, cooked chicken

2 tablespoons of chopped, cooked bacon

1 table spoon of chopped chives

2 packages of puff pastry 

Directions Above 

Let these sit for at least 5 minutes before serving unless you want to melt the faces off of those that you are serving.. My hubs learned the hard way when he wouldn't wait.