Crescent roll casserole recipes are one of the easiest ways to bring comforting dishes to your table, and they can even fit into your meal planning.
You would be surprised what you can cook with store-bought dough. And this round-up contains a great selection, so you always have scrumptious meal ideas to make year-round.
From filling dinners, sweets, and sides to easy-to-make breakfasts, this selection proves you can do much more with refrigerated dough than just making simple rolls. Let’s dive in!
1. Chicken & Rice Crescent Topped Casserole
Chicken, broccoli, rice, and a low-fat cheesy sauce are combined in one baking dish and topped with buttery crescent rolls. This comforting dinner is prepped in 10 minutes, so you can let the oven do its magic. Cooking a delicious family meal can’t get any easier.
2. 4-Ingredient Ground Beef Casserole
Here’s another simple one-dish meal, but protein-rich ground beef takes center stage. Salsa deliciously seasons the meat. Then everything goes on top of a crescent roll crust and into the oven topped with cheese. It’s a ridiculously easy, 4-ingredient meal that the whole family will love.
3. Easy Italian Casserole
Beautiful Italian flavors are wrapped in a flaky crust with your choice of meat, cheese, and ready-made pasta sauce. It’s such an easy and adaptable dish, especially for busy weeknights.
4. Crescent Roll Breakfast Casserole
Delicious and so easy to assemble, this casserole dish will become your next favorite breakfast recipe. Stuffed with cream cheese and baked with eggs, ham, and cheese, this morning meal easily feeds a large crowd, and leftovers during the week taste just as good.
5. Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole
This cheesy casserole filled with savory sausage is another lovely breakfast. The best part is that it’s such an adjustable recipe because you can use any sausage you like, from hot and savory to sweet, and throw in bacon bits or veggies of your choice.
6. Chicken Pot Pie Casserole
A lovely adaptation of the classic chicken pot pie, this easy shortcut is full of flavor and quickly gets dinner to the table. Frozen veggies and cream of chicken soup are wrapped with flaky, buttery crescent rolls—everything is prepped in 10 minutes.
7. Turkey Crescent Roll Casserole
Turkey lovers will appreciate this savory baked dish, mixed with vegetables and topped with a beautiful lattice crust. It’s flavorful, easy to make, and easy to freeze for prepping meals.
8. Recipe for Cheesecake Crescent Rolls Casserole
Who doesn’t love a sweet cheesecake filling complemented with a buttery pastry? This sweet casserole dish takes crescent roll dough to a new level and is an amazing crowd-pleaser.
9. Crescent Roll Quiche
Are you looking to impress your guests with brunch? Look no further. Delicious crescent layers create a lovely crust that takes ham, veggies, eggs, and cheese to the next level.
10. Fritos Chicken Casserole
This bake uses leftover shredded chicken or rotisserie chicken and makes a whole new flavorful dish for dinner with crescent rolls. It’s wonderfully seasoned with corn chips, green chiles, and cheddar cheese.
11. Easy Mexican Biscuit Casserole
What’s not to love about a 5-ingredient casserole with Mexican flavors and a buttery layer of crescent dough? It’s a 30-minute biscuit bake that’s hearty, cheesy, filling, and so good.
12. Philly Cheese Steak Crescent Bake
Deliciously seasoned and cooked in a beef gravy mix, this dinner recipe has all the flavors of a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich wrapped in an easy-to-bake casserole.
13. Reuben Crescent Bake
You will be excited about this dish if you are a big Reuben fan. Yep, it’s all in there, the Swiss cheese, corned beef, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island dressing deliciously baked in crescent roll dough.
14. Runza Casserole
What’s a Runza? It’s a baked bread pocket filled with beef, onions, cabbage, and sometimes sauerkraut. This lovely variation uses beef baked in a savory and amazingly flavored mushroom gravy and a delicious crescent roll topping to bring this hearty and family-favorite dish to your table.
15. Easy Churro Cheesecake Bars
You can’t have enough crescent roll dessert recipes, especially when baked in a casserole. This sweet treat combines cinnamon, sugar, and a rich cream cheese mixture with a flaky crescent roll crust that serves pure indulgence.
16. Crescent Roll Burrito Bake Recipe
Here’s another one perfect for busy weeknights. Like a burrito, this casserole is filled with salsa, corn, black beans, a lovely cheese blend, and seasoned hamburger meat as the primary protein source. Everything is baked til golden brown and then topped with shredded lettuce, tomatoes, and olives. It’s a winner.
17. Pigs In A Blanket Breakfast Casserole Recipe
I am so here for seasoned sausage and eggs wrapped in crescent dough. This recipe is super easy to make, so you can easily enjoy this breakfast any day of the week.
18. Crescent Breakfast Tart
A deliciously seasoned breakfast tart topped with sunny-side-up eggs and crispy bacon on top of buttery dough—do I have your attention? It all comes together in 30 minutes, but this dish will please your senses and taste buds.
19. Crescent Roll Lasagna
This lovely alternative to a regular lasagna is great to serve for dinner or take it to potlucks. It’s meaty, cheesy, Italian-flavored, and baked until golden brown—easy, delicious, and so filling.
20. Sloppy Joe Crescent Squares
You know you’ve got something special when ground beef, onions, and a flavor-packed tomato sauce are wrapped between two sheets of crescent roll dough. It’s sweet, tangy, super easy to make, and another great meal prep option.
21. Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish Recipe
Whether you enjoy this for breakfast or as a dessert, this casserole recipe will surely please during the weekend. It’s another easy, adjustable recipe that allows you to experiment with less sugar, fruit toppings, and different fillings.
There is no shortage of crescent roll casserole ideas here. I hope you like them. Pick your favorite and start baking!
21 Delicious Crescent Roll Casserole Recipes To Make ASAP
Ingredients
- 1 can of low fat cream of chicken soup, 284ml
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup milk, I used 1%
- Juice from 1/2 squeezed lemon
- 10 oz cooked chicken, I used shredded but cubed will work to
- 2 cups frozen broccoli, feel free to swap out for a different veggie to suit you
- 2 cups cooked white rice, or brown if you prefer but it’s 2 points higher
- Dash of salt & pepper
- 2/3 cup reduced fat shredded cheese, I used a 3 cheese blend
- 1 pkg pillsbury reduced fat crescent rolls
- 1 Tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F, spray a 9×13 casserole dish with cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, microwave your frozen broccoli with 3Tbsp of water for 2-3 minutes, mixing it half way.
- In a large bowl mix your soup, chicken, broth, broccoli, cooked rice, lemon, milk, shredded cheese and salt & pepper. Stir well.
- Pour out into your casserole dish.
- Take your crescent roll dough and keep it rolled up, cut into 8 equal parts (cut in half, then cut those halves in half) cut all 8 pieces in 4 (see picture below)
- Evenly place biscuit pieces over your chicken mixture, sprinkle with grated parmesan.
- Bake in oven for approx 28-30 minutes, until your crescent rolls are golden brown.
- Makes 6 servings, each serving weighs out at approx 11oz and incl 5 crescent pieces.
Notes
SP green- 9 using WW recipe builder
Points plus- 9 using PP calculator
Nutritional info (not incl broccoli) per serving.. Calories 328..Fat 8.6g…Saturated fat 3.6g… Carbs 38.4g… Fiber 0.4g… Sugars 5.4g… Protein 24.2g using My Fitness Pal
