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Chicken Roll Ups are easy, made with pantry staples, and are so delicious! Even the pickiest of eaters will love this comfort food!
These Crescent Chicken Roll Ups are truly a “favorite family recipe”. Our Mom originally got this recipe from our Aunt Lana. We would always beg for this meal when we were kids! It is a VERY quick meal and is definitely a husband/kid pleaser. Something about the combination of a flaky roll, a savory chicken mixture, and creamy sauce on top that makes this meal totally irresistible!
Ingredients in Chicken Roll Ups
Chances are you have all the ingredients for this simple supper in your refrigerator and pantry cupboard right now. That’s why this is such a terrific last minute dinner for those busy weeknights when cooking is just the last thing on your mind. Here’s all you need:
- Shredded Chicken – You can use canned chicken or a couple of cups cooked chicken breast. If you have leftover rotisserie chicken or baked chicken, this is a perfect recipe to use up the leftovers.
- Cream cheese – an eight ounce package is all you need, or a tub of softened herb cream cheese is delicious too.
- Milk – any kind will work.
- Salt and pepper – to taste
- Crescent roll dough – I always keep a couple of tubes of refrigerated crescent roll dough on hand for last minute meals.
- Bread crumbs – Use anything you have on hand to make a crumb mixture: panko crumbs, cracker crumbs, crushed croutons, crushed Ritz crackers, etc… these will all work great!
- Butter – melted
How to Make Chicken Roll Ups
These chicken roll ups come together in just a couple of simple steps. Here’s all you need to do:
- In a bowl, pour milk, and blend together shredded chicken, cream cheese, salt and pepper.
- Separate the crescent rolls into triangles.
- Spoon the chicken mixture into the bottom of the triangle, fold the bottom corners, and roll up.
- In a shallow bowl, melt butter, then dip chicken rolls into the butter
- Next, roll in crushed crumb mixture.
- Place each roll on a baking dish or cookie sheet and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
The Secret’s in the Sauce
If desired serve with a sauce of cream of chicken soup diluted with ½ cup milk over the crescent rolls. I also like to add salt, pepper, parsley, cayenne, and curry to the sauce.
How to Make Chicken Roll Ups Bigger
These chicken roll ups are little bite size rolls, perfect for little kids or for an appetizer. But if you want to make larger rolls for the grown-ups at mealtime, here’s how to do it. Instead of separating the crescent rolls into triangles, split the serrated dough into rectangles (two triangles together). Press the serrated seam of two triangles together to form a rectangle. Add a scoop of the chicken mixture. Roll the dough over the mixture and press the edges together, then press the ends together to form a complete chicken “pillow.”
5-Star Reviews
“We had these for dinner tonight and everyone loved them. My picky eater ate 3! Can’t wait to try some of your other recipes.” – Michelle Rowe
“Made these last night! SO good!” – Brady & Ashley
“I tried this recipe last night and it was AMAZING! I have two very picky little girls and they gobbled them right up! Definitely a new favorite at our house! Thanks!” – Terra
Frequently Asked Questions
You will want to store the rolls and sauce in the refrigerator in an airtight container. You can also freeze them! Just put the leftovers in a Ziplock bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
Heat them in the microwave for 45 seconds but I prefer to warm them in air fryer for 5-6 minutes at 350 degrees so they don’t get soggy. If they are frozen, make sure you thaw them in the fridge overnight before re-heating.
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Chicken Roll Ups
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Ingredients
- 25 ounces canned chicken or 2 cups cooked and shredded chicken
- 8 ounces package cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons milk
- salt and pepper
- 2 tubes refrigerated crescent rolls
- 1 cup crushed croutons (panko bread crumbs, bread crumbs, crushed Ritz crackers, or cracker crumbs can all be used)
- 1 stick butter melted
Optional add-ins to the chicken filling
- fresh or canned mushrooms
- diced onions
- chopped celery
Instructions
- Blend together first four ingredients.
- Separate crescent rolls into triangles.
- Spoon chicken into the bottom of the triangle, fold in the bottom corners, and roll up.
- Lightly roll in melted butter then roll in crushed croutons.
- Place on un-greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
- If desired, serve with a sauce of cream of chicken soup diluted with ½ cup milk over the chicken roll ups. I also like to add salt, pepper, parsley, cayenne, and curry to the sauce.
Made these and LOVE them! I added canned mushrooms that I chopped up and some slivered almonds and a couple of Tbsp of pimento cause… why not! Ha! DEVOURED! This one’s a keeper!
Is this 18 oz of cream cheese? Or one 8 oz package of cream cheese?
It’s one 8 oz. package. Hope this helps!
I’m so excited I found this recipe!! My mother gave it to me years ago – but she made these into “pouches” and served as appetizers. Unfortunately, she has passed on, and her recipes are no where to be found, so I’ll still have to figure how many I can get from one tube of crescent rolls & how much chicken to put in each – but I knew I’d recognize the filling when I saw it – so at least NOW I have the right ingredients! She would make squares out of the crescent rolls, putting maybe a Tablespoon of the mixture on each square, then pulling all 4 corners of the rolls, twist them to seal, like a purse or pouch. I think they’d cook a little quicker, so I’d probably check them at 10 mins and just keep an eye on them. I believe I used Garlic Salt (for the salt), and I added Onion Powder as well. Then after making the pouches & putting on a cookie sheet – I think I also sprinkled some Parmesan/Romano cheese mix (or the 3 cheese shaker-type – in the clear & green plastic jar) on them before baking. Hubby does nearly all cooking for the 2 of us – except appetizers or desserts for parties (& we do a lot of partying, since we live/retired in a resort-type village)! I recently made a mac & cheese balls appetizer that called for bacon being sprinkled on top – but I bought REALBacon Bits, pulverized them in a mini food processor and mixed most of that INTO the mac & cheese balls, plus a little on top with italian bread crumbs. This just came to my mind because I think I will do the same for these pockets! I’m making myself hungry-Grrrr.! Thanks so much for the lost recipe!
You are making me hungry too! Thank you so much for sharing your memories of your mother with us 🙂 We love hearing stories like this. That is what Favorite Family Recipes is all about! Thank you for taking the time to write such a wonderful comment. Please come back soon! Maybe we will have more recipes similar to your mother’s. What were some of your other favorites of hers?
Made these today, and they were AMAZING! Like any good recipe, it leaves room for “tweaking” it to your own taste. I added some shredded cheddar, dry ranch mix, onion and garlic powder, bacon bits, and fresh chives. I had left over mix, so I turned the remainder into a quesadilla (sp?), which was ooey gooey yumminess. Thank you for the awesome recipe!
Have loved finding these nice sounding recipe’s. Will enjoy trying them even though I’m 60 years old. Lol My almost 13 yr. old grand daughter & her Dad live with me so she can fix alot of these all by herself. Thank you!!
That’s awesome. I have a daughter almost that same age and she has made a lot too.
I am making this but only using 1 can of crescents because it’s 2 of us. I have everything
These sounded & looked so good in the photo so I came here to get the recipe & with all these great comments , well, I’m just going to have to try them tonight too! Thanks for another great recipe & I’m signing up!
Thank you, Karen! You are going to love the chicken roll-ups! We never have leftovers at my house when I make them.
Need to see the recipe
Thank you we LOVE this recipe. I found your recipe a couple years ago and it’s been a hit with my family. I would also LOVE your rice recipe 🙂 Could you share? 🙂
I tried this recipe tonight, with a slight modification. Rather than cream cheese, I used the new Philly Cooking Creme (Garlic flavor), and left out the milk. It was perfect. I also crushed some French Fried Onions with the croutons. Very tasty and easy. Served with cheesy rice and chicken gravy over top. I'll make this again. Thanks!
I tried this recipe last night and it was AMAZING! I have two very picky little girls and they gobbled them right up! Definately a new favorite at our house! Thanks!
I sent your blog to my friend and she made these and brought them over as a surprise one night! LOVE THEM!
We had these for dinner tonight and everyone loved them. My picky eater ate 3! Can't wait to try some of your other recipes.
Made these last night! SO good!
Made these last night! SO good!
I just recently found your blog, like two days ago recently, and I'm in Heaven. Your Cafe Rio pork was my very first attempt at the crock pot – not counting my failure the night before. 🙂 It was so yummy and easy that I had to come back to your blog for more. Tonight I made the chicken rolls ups and they were delish. I added sliced almonds and used chicken gravy on top just to mix it up a little. I've just recently decided to start cooking and your blog has been so fun and incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for doing something that you love and sharing it with the world, you're amazing!
@ Libby- Thank you so much! I love to hear when people discover cooking and enjoy it as much as I do. You are so sweet! I am so glad to hear you have liked the recipes you have tried. Please come back for more!!
–Erica
we made these yesterday and I TOTALLY loved them.
we made these yesterday and I TOTALLY loved them.
This looks delicious. I think I'll have to try it this week.
I want the rice recipe as well looks awesome.
This looks fabulous! I bet my little guy would especially love getting one of these in his lunchbox!