Chicken Enchilada Ring (Pampered Chef)

Prep time: 35 minutes

Cook time: 25 minutes Serves 8

Robyn McNelly of Cameron Park enjoyed a dish at a party that was a ring of pastry with a Mexican-flavored chicken filling. She was hoping for a recipe. Marcie Bombola of Rocklin shares this Pampered Chef recipe, which sounds like a match.

Ingredients:

2 cups coarsely chopped cooked chicken breast

¼ cup chopped pitted ripe black olives

1 cup Monterey Jack/cheddar cheese blend

1 4-ounce can chopped green chilies, undrained

½ cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon Pampered Chef's Southwestern Seasoning Mix

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 plum tomatoes

1 lime

º cup finely crushed tortilla chips, divided

2 tubes refrigerated crescent rolls (dough)

1 cup salsa

1 cup sour cream

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix chopped chicken, olives, cheese, green chilies, mayonnaise, seasoning mix and garlic in a bowl. Seed and chop one tomato. Slice lime in half. Juice one half of lime to measure 1 teaspoon of juice. Reserve remaining half of lime for garnish. Add chopped tomato and lime juice to chicken mixture. Mix well.

Reserve 2 tablespoons of the crushed tortilla chips and add remaining chips to chicken mixture. Mix well.

Sprinkle reserved crushed chips over a large cutting board. Place crescent roll dough onto reserved chips and press down so chips adhere to dough. Separate dough into triangles along perforations. Arrange triangles, chip side down, in a circle on a 13-inch baking stone. Wide ends should overlap in the center, and points should be toward the outside. There should be a 5-inch diameter opening in the center.

Scoop chicken mixture onto the wide ends of the triangles. Bring points of the triangles up over the filling and tuck under the wide ends of the dough. Do not cover filling completely. It should show in between each triangle.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. For garnish, cut remaining tomato into eight wedges. Cut remaining half of lime into four slices. Cut these slices in half. Arrange tomato wedges and lime slices between pastry strips of ring where filling is showing, alternating tomato, lime, tomato, lime, etc. Serve with salsa and sour cream.

Note: The recipe calls for Pampered Chef's Southwestern Seasoning Mix, which contains dehydrated onion and garlic, chili peppers, spices and salt. If you don't have this, try Grandma's Zesty Chili Powder or regular chili powder. It won't be exactly the same, but it will work.

Per serving: 336 calories; 17 grams protein; 10 grams carbohydrates; 25 grams fat (10 saturated, 5 mono- unsaturated, 1 polyunsaturated, 9 other); 66 milligrams cholesterol; 508 milligrams sodium; 1 gram fiber; 1 gram sugar; 69 percent calories from fat

This story was originally published November 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Chicken Enchilada Ring (Pampered Chef)."