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updated: 10/20/22

4.82 from 54 votes
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This Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid is a super easy and delicious dinner all wrapped up in a gorgeous crescent braid!

a close up of a crescent braid filled with chicken pot pie filling, cut open on a cutting board

I love cooking from scratch, like in this Homemade Chicken Pot Pie. But, there are times – many many times – as a mom of young children, when taking short cuts is a life saver. I love that you can take short cuts in cooking and still put something on the family dinner table that you feel great about.

This Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid is exactly that.

Ingredients for Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid

close up of the cut off end of a chicken pot pie crescent braid with its oozing center and pastry crust

Tips and Tricks

If you can’t find seamless crescent roll dough, use the kind with the seams and gently push them together before you start cutting to make the braids.

If you would rather use homemade dough, you can use my pizza dough recipe for the outside. It won’t be flakey, but it will be delicious. Brush it with a little melted butter before baking.

If you aren’t sure how to make a crescent braid, check out the video that is in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. It shows you just how to get it done.

What to Serve on the Side

This is a great delicious recipe, but you will want to serve something on the side to go with it.

Here are a few suggestions:

Other Great Easy Dinners

If you like this crescent braid, you will love how easy my Taco Braid is!

My Crock Pot Chicken and Rice Casserole is another great easy dinner.

My Turkey Meatloaf only takes a few minutes to throw together and is a crowd pleaser!

If you make this Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid or any of my other recipes please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I always love hearing from you.

pulled back look of a chicken pot pie crescent braid on a cutting board with the front cut off
4.82 from 54 votes

Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid

Author: Lisa Longley
Serves: 4 people
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Prep: 10 minutes
Resting Time: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Total: 40 minutes
This Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid is a super easy and delicious dinner all wrapped up in a gorgeous crescent braid!

Ingredients

  • seamless crescent roll dough I used Pillsbury
  • 1 cup cooked chicken
  • 1 cup frozen peas and carrots
  • 1/2 cup cream of chicken condensed soup
  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup cheddar cheese

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, combine the frozen veggies, cheddar cheese, and chicken. In a separate bowl mix together the cream cheese and the condensed soup. Add it to the chicken-veggie mixture.
  • Spread the crescent roll dough out on a silicon mat or parchment paper and place that on a baking pan. Leaving three inches in the middle, make cuts down the side of the dough an inch apart on both sides.
  • Spread the chicken-veggie-soup mixture down the middle of the dough. Take a strip of dough from one side and fold it over the middle mixture. Then take a strip from the other side and fold it over the middle. Continue down the dough, alternating sides until it is completely folded over.
  • Pinch the ends of the dough to keep the filling inside while it bakes.
  • Bake for 20 to 25 minutes so that the top is nice and golden brown.
  • Let stand about 10 minutes before cutting in to it.

Recipe Video

Calories: 444kcal (22%) Carbohydrates: 34g (11%) Protein: 20g (40%) Fat: 25g (38%) Saturated Fat: 12g (75%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g Monounsaturated Fat: 5g Cholesterol: 72mg (24%) Sodium: 902mg (39%) Potassium: 212mg (6%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 7g (8%) Vitamin A: 3918IU (78%) Vitamin C: 4mg (5%) Calcium: 145mg (15%) Iron: 3mg (17%)
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American

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Lisa is the founder of Simple Joy. Lisa, is a self taught cook and avid lover of all things food, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the last 10 years Lisa has been reading cookbooks, experimenting in the kitchen, and learning everything she possibly can about cooking. The result has been the ability to create recipes, both classics and new twists, that readers fall in love with and make with ease. Lisa loves not only providing delicious and easy recipes, but also giving the why behind what we are doing in the kitchen. She gets such great joy in sharing my love for food.

Lisa has been featured in many media outlets. These outlets include Country Living, Real Simple, Today, Parade, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed, Delish, Elle, and many others.

Prior to becoming a food creator, Lisa was a social worker. She received her master’s in social work from the University of Milwaukee and worked in child welfare.

Lisa is the mom to four amazing kids: Gavin, Elliot, Quinn, and Piper. Gavin, Quinn, and Piper are happy, amazing kids she loves spending time with.

Her husband, Nathan, is her partner in life and in business. He is her rock in more ways than one and supports all of her crazy dreams.

Lisa and Nathan lost their second child, Elliot, when he was 8 days old. If you want to know more about Elliot, you can read it here. If you want to read more of Lisa’s experience of grief, you can read this post.

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  1. Memphis Debs says

    Hi Im Debs…no one my ever read this…I just loved what I cooked today..I want to share pictures..all tve pop up…and other suggestions…for get it
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    • Debbie Craft says

      5 stars
      It’s great !!
      There IT sucks !

  2. Marine MoM says

    5 stars
    We have made this many many times for just us and also for company. It is always a hit! In fact I am making this today 😀
    Only change we make is to double everything but the veggies.
    Wishing everyone a joyous and wonderful New Year!

  3. Pam says

    5 stars
    Love this. I’ve made it twice. So easy and tasty. I fried semi thin breasts which added to the deliciousness.

  4. Amanda Houle says

    I used mixed veggies instead of peas and carrots and it was delicious. I probably needed to cook just a little bit more as my crescent dough was a little doughy.

    • Lisa Longley says

      I’m glad you liked it!

  5. Linda Getz says

    What can you substitute cream cheese with. could you put alfredo sauce? My friend doesn t like red sauce, tomatoes, peppers, sour cream, cream cheese. any suggestions?

    • Lisa Longley says

      I’m worried that Alfredo would make it too runny. Cream cheese isn’t the overwhelming taste in this at all. I wonder if they would even notice.

  6. kim schwartz says

    would you explain how to make the braid. i never made one !

    • Lisa Longley says

      Hi Kim! If the instructions in the recipe card don’t help you visualize it, we have a video in the post that shows us doing it.

  7. Theresa says

    I cannot get cresent roll dough any suggestions please

    • Lisa Longley says

      Pizza dough or puff pastry would also work!

  8. Karen ODonnell says

    Could you use Puff Pastry instead of either the pizza dough or the crescent dough?

    • Lisa Longley says

      Yes!

  9. cyndi j watkins says

    I have not found the video

    • Lisa Longley says

      It is right beneath the first paragraph :)

  10. Amy says

    I added 1/2 tsp. Onion powder and 1/2 tsp. garlic salt. It was yummy! 😋 Thanks for the recipe! 😍

    • Lisa Longley says

      I’m so glad you liked it!

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