crescent-topped cheesy vegetable bake
The holidays are thisclose and you guys, I AM SO EXCITED. This excited! Anyway, you get the point. Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away, then it’s the Christmas season and my heart could just explode from all the holiday cheer.
Due to all this excitement, I have been eagerly baking/creating holiday recipes for all y’all for quite some time now. Mayhaps even before Halloween. And one such recipe is this crescent-topped cheesy vegetable bake — a new creation in my kitchen but surely, undoubtedly, one that will become a tradition among my family for our holiday dinners.
Just how can I be so sure, you ask? Welp, I’ll tell you. There are veggies in this dish, yes, but they are mixed with melted cheese and cream cheese. And then they’re cooked, spread in a pan and topped with a layer of buttery, flaky, soft (and did I mention buttery?) crescent rolls. Then everything is baked in the oven until warm. So yeah. I can be quite sure.
See the thing is, my family is really big on tradition when it comes to what we eat for Thanksgiving and Christmas — and yours truly is no black sheep in that department. I need my green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, mashed potatoes and dinner rolls, thankyouverymuch. And yet, there is always room for improvement, or a slight change, or even just an addition. I think this veggie bake fits that mold. And while my family might not trust me to throw a football in a straight line or carry heavy things down stairs, they do trust me when it comes to food.
If you have room for an extra dish in your holiday spread, I strongly suggest you make this veggie bake. And then I strongly suggest you do the Carlton dance after eating it and/or while decorating the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving. But, you know, that’s just a (strong) suggestion.
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Crescent-Topped Cheesy Vegetable Bake
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins
- Total Time: 45 mins
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 3 (12 oz) packages Green Giant® Steamers® broccoli, carrots, cauliflower and cheese sauce
- 1 (8 oz) container cream cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 Pillsbury® Crescent Recipe Creations® refrigerated seamless dough sheet
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lightly grease a 13-by-9-inch baking dish.
- Combine vegetables, cream cheese, chopped onion, salt and pepper in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cover and cook 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until cheese and cream cheese are melted. Pour into prepared baking dish.
- Unroll seamless dough sheet and lay over vegetable mixture, tucking in the edges if necessary.
- Bake 25 minutes until golden brown. Cool 15 minutes before serving.
Disclosure: I received compensation from Pillsbury for recipe development purposes. All opinions are my own.
I love how easy this is! This would be so perfect for those busy weeknights! And I am SO excited for the holidays! Jason and I have been away from his family, particularly our adorable niece and nephews, and we can’t wait to see them!
This looks so easy to make and delicous that I cannot believe it’s real 🙂
I love this dish and I love it even more than I can use all our garden fresh veggies inside. Cant wait to try!
Love how simple this is! It’d make a great quick dinner on a busy weeknight or for Meatless Monday!
Ah, you had me at the Carlton dance! This looks awesome- comfort food at its best.
I want to tuck myself right in there and eat my way out. Did I just say that out loud? 😉
I’m going to say this is healthy… veggies and cheese, yes please!
Wow – This would be great if you used real veggies and real dough…
I think Ill pass on the frozen varieties. Fresh is best!
You know what, I would add chicken to this and have that be a main course! Would make a great chicken pot pie.
sounds good but I think I would make it after holidays and add cut up left over turkey in it and make it a full meal
After Thanksgiving, chunk up the leftover turkey and add to the mixture.
Do we thaw the veggies first?? Or put the veggies/cheese in frozen?? Thank you!
Amanda — Nope, just put them in the mixture frozen and they’ll cook in the saucepan!
Since none of the commenters have actually TRIED this, I should have been wary…..I should have never even made this after reading the poor quality ingredients. Those steamer things? Absolutely disgusting and so processed. The cream cheese made it worse. Even my husband, who is always sweet and cleans his whole plate, could not finish his portion.
I haven’t tried any of your other recipes, so maybe the fact that this was sponsored affected the quality? I don’t know. But I feel as if a public service announcement is in order….the dish sure LOOKS delicious and comforting and hearty, but it’s just gross.
G — I am so sorry to hear that you made this dish and did not enjoy it. I know that the combination of ingredients (and packaged ingredients) is not everyone’s bag, though we did enjoy it when we made it. Again, apologies that your experience was not positive. 🙁