Chicken And Rice Croissants Recipes

Steps:

• Set 3 cups of water to boil. Place olive oil in a large skillet that can be covered, and turn heat to medium-high. Add onions and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions soften and become translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove skin from chicken.
• Add rice to onions; stir until each grain glistens; sprinkle with saffron, and stir. Nestle chicken in rice, add a little more salt and pepper and pour in the boiling water. Turn heat to medium-low, and cover.
• Cook 20 minutes, until all water is absorbed and chicken is cooked through. (You can keep this warm over a very low flame for another 15 minutes; it will retain its heat for 15 minutes beyond that.) Garnish and serve with lemon or lime.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Heat a large skillet over medium heat; pan-fry chicken until no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes per side. Shred chicken.
• Spread chicken over crescent roll triangles. Roll triangles, starting with the wider end, around chicken. Arrange rolls on prepared baking dish with the seam sides down. Place rolls into prepared baking dish.
• Mix cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken soup, milk, and Cheddar cheese in a bowl; pour mixture over crescent rolls.
• Bake in preheated oven until bubbly and rolls are golden brown, about 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Mix shredded chicken, cream cheese, celery, and onion.
• When removing cresent rolls from package, leave together so that two cresent rolls form a square. This will leave you with 4 croissants.
• Put chicken mixture into center.
• Bring up each corner and secure together.
• Dip upside down in melted butter.
• Sprinkle with croutons.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1/2 hour on a cookie sheet.
• Let set 5 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375
• 2. In microwave safe covered dish, cook rice with chicken broth , salsa and taco seasoning on high for 5 minutes, then stir to mix well. return rice to microwave and cook for 15 more minutes on 50% power. set aside and let cool down
• 3. roll out one tube of crescent roll dough and press out the seams so that it's one long roll. Put some of the chicken slices on the roll then the cooled rice mixture and top with the cheese. roll it all up together making sure the sides are tucked in... (kind of like a burrito)
• 4. repeat with second tube of dough.
• 5. place both rolls on a cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or till dough is golden brown.
• 6. Let rest for about 10 - 20 minutes before slicing. Makes a great party appetizer or you can slice thicker and get about 6 - 8 servings as a main dish.
• 7. note" you can also add a half cup of frozen spinach that has been thawed and drained to the rice mixture before spreading it over the chicken.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375 * f
• 2. In covered microwave safe dish, cook rice, chicken broth, salsa, and taco seasoning on High for 5 minutes. take out, stir to make sure that everything is mixed well... then return to microwave and heat another 15 minutes on half power.
• 3. when rice is done, set rice aside and let cool a little
• 4. Open one roll of the dough and unroll it. press out any seams so that it makes one long wide sheet of dough. Lay half the chicken down on the dough... spread about half the rice mixture on top of the chicken, then spread half the cheese on top of the rice. Carefully roll up jellyroll style , making sure to tuck in the ends (like you would a burrito) and pinch shut
• 5. lay out second tube of dough and repeat step 4
• 6. bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes or till dough is nice and golden brown. Let rest for about 10 - 15 minutes before slicing.
• 7. If used as a main dish, you can get 6-8 servings depending on how big you like your slices. Slice thinner for an appetizer -- should yield about 16 servings
• 8. *note* if you like, you can add a cup of frozen spinach that has been thawed and drained to the rice mixture before spreading it on over the chicken