Recipe: Perfect Bacon Chicken Puffs

Bacon Chicken Puffs.

you can have Bacon Chicken Puffs using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bacon Chicken Puffs

1. It's 1/2 lb of bacon, finely chopped.
2. Prepare 1 packages of cream cheese, softened.
3. It's 1 stick of butter, softened.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of minced onion.
5. Prepare 2 clove of garlic.
6. Prepare 2 of chicken breasts (or 1 rotisserie chicken with breast meat removed and finely shredded).
7. You need 2 can of Cresent rolls.
8. You need of salt and pepper.

Bacon Chicken Puffs step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375°F..
2. Cook bacon in skillet over medium heat until crispy. Remove from skillet with a slotted spoon to a paper towel lined plate. Once drained, pour into mixing bowl..
3. If using raw chicken, cook chicken breasts in skillet using bacon grease over medium-high heat till cooked through, about 6-8 minutes each side. Once cool enough to handle, shred chicken with fork or fingers. (If using a rotisserie chicken, remove breasts and shred with fingers or fork.) Place in mixing bowl with bacon..
4. Reduce the heat in the skillet to low and slowly caramelize the onion. When browned but not burned, add garlic and cook two more minutes. Spoon onion and garlic mixture into mixing bowl..
5. Add butter and cream cheese to chicken, bacon, onion, and garlic and mix thoroughly. Set aside..
6. Open Cresent roll cans and carefully roll out dough. Press triangles together to form rectangles, then slice rectangles in half to form squares..
7. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the chicken mixture into the middle of each square of dough..
8. Wrap the dough around the chicken mixture and form into dumplings. Place dumplings on baking sheet..
9. Bake 10 minutes then turn the baking sheet and bake 7-10 more minutes or until golden brown..
10. Transfer to serving platter and serve immediately..