If I weren’t happily married with a couple children and were creating a tinder profile, I think I’d slap “Love to Cook!!!” on my profile. The rest of the profile and my face would lead to an impressive amount of left swipes but I think that piece would peak the interest of at least a few desperate people.
It’s not that I fancy myself a very good cook, but I do really enjoy it. It’s therapeutic in a way and that way is “I’m sorry I can’t help you with the kids but I’m cooking right now and will be for about an hour.”
This recipe definitely won’t serve as my application to the cordon bleu as it’s essentially stuffing a couple ingredients into Pillsbury crescent roll, but it’s very good. Maybe most importantly when you have kids tugging at your leg anytime you’re in the kitchen, it’s also easy.
Note: I’ve made these types of rolls with about 10 different ingredients. Turkey and stuffing is just one way to approach this and I’m sure the creative minds out there and think of some other fillings that are appropriately Thanksgiving / delicious.
Ingredients:
- Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
- Sliced Pre-cooked Turkey Breast (a couple slices)
- Stovetop Stuffing (or homemade stuffing you’re adventurous)
- Turkey Gravy (I typically just make something store bought but you’re probably more competent than me so go crazy with homemade)
Directions:
- Make your stuffing – Stovetop is probably sufficient here since several flavors will be coming together
- Make your gravy – Gravy is pretty simple to make from scratch, assuming you have drippings from cooking meat. It might be sacrilegious for some, but if you’re in a pinch, buy a packet at the grocery store and you can knock this out in 10 minutes.
- Dice up your turkey into small cubes
- Pop open those crescents
- With the crescent triangle open, layer on some turkey cubes and stuffing in the center of the triangle. You really can’t do this wrong, although it you could you’d try and put way too much of each item in the crescent. Between 4-6 cubes and a tablespoon of stuffing worked for me
- Fold the edges of the crescent over the filling. You can be as sloppy as you want here and in some ways the more sloppy you are the better this will look. Baking is next and a little fissure in the center of the roll post-bake, exposing the filling and providing gravy access, is probably the best end result.
- Bake at 375 for between 12-15 minutes. They’re done when the pastry is golden brown
- Serve these suckers with gravy as a dipping sauce.
We just trotted these out for a Friendsgiving to rave reviews. Try them out and let me know what you think!
Chris Jordan