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Looking for a bargain meal at Publix this week? We enjoyed this for dinner last night and it was much easier than I expected it to be . . . however when my engineer-hubby walked though the door he had to help me figure out how to braid the crescent dough (at least he thought he had to help me figure it out!) 🙂
Chicken Broccoli Braid
Ingredients
- 2 cups diced, cooked chicken meat B
- 1 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons dried dill weed
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons slivered almonds
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent rolls
- 1 egg white, beaten
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Toss together first ten ingredients in bowl.
- Unroll crescent dough, and arrange on flat baking pan (you'll have two rows of squares across and four rows of squares down – does that make sense at all?)
- Pinch together the perforations in the crescent rolls so that it's one large rectangle.
- Keeping a three inch strip in the center, cut slits on the right and left side for your braid.
- Spread the chicken mixture down the center of the Pillsbury crescent rolls, then braid the dough over the chicken mixture.
- Whisk together egg white, and brush the braided dough with the egg white.
- Bake at 375 for 25-28 minutes, or until golden brown.
On the right half of the braid I only used chicken, broccoli and cheese for the picker eaters at our house!
Serve with . .
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What do you serve with braid?
Fresh veggies and ranch!
This looks delicious!!!! I must try!!!
Help! I can’t print the recipe. It will only print a blank page 🙁 It would be perfect for a picnic I plan on attending over the weekend.
Hi Lou! It looked like it worked for me this morning (at least to show up on the screen), but my printer’s not working so I couldn’t try it myself! I found it at All Recipes, so you can see it through this link and print it there as well. Have a wonderful picnic (what a fun idea!)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-and-Broccoli-Braid/Detail.aspx
Help! I can’t print the recipe! It only prints a blank page. That would be soooo perfect for a picnic.
Hey! I made this tonight and the family loved it. I added cranraisins to it. Thanks for the suggestion!
So glad you all liked it Cheryl!
I can’t say that this recipe does not intimidate me… but we eat chicken broccoli every Sunday. This looks like a great substitute!
Anna – you can totally do this! (Trust me – I’m no fancy cook here!) Really, I didn’t stress too much over the braid – mixing up the stuff inside is easy, and as long as it cooks through you can’t mess up a Pillsbury Crescent Roll 🙂