What’s For Dinner? Chicken Broccoli Braid

May 11, 2011 by Laurie 10 Comments

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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!

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