Description
Quick and easy appetizer using Jimmy Dean® pork sausage, cream cheese, and vegetables make a tasty one-bite treat for any get-together. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package Jimmy Dean® Premium Pork Regular Sausage
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 4 ounces garden vegetable cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- ¼ cup finely chopped red bell pepper
- ¼ cup finely chopped green onion
- 2 (8 ounce) packages crescent roll sheets
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Add sausage to a frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook and stir with a spatula
- breaking apart the sausage until cooked
- 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and let cool.
- Combine regular and vegetable cream cheese
- Cheddar cheese
- bell pepper
- green onion
- and cooled
- crumbled sausage in a bowl. Mix well and set aside.
- Unroll 1 crescent dough sheet and press into a 9×12-inch rectangle. Cut 6 rows across and 4 rows vertically to yield 24 squares. Repeat with the second package of dough.
- Place 1 square in each cup of two nonstick 24-cup mini muffin tins
- pressing it into the bottom and up the sides.
- Drop 1 heaping teaspoon of sausage filling into each cup. Filling should be up to the top of the cup
- but you do not need to press it down.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the dough is golden brown
- 11 to 13 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes in the tins before removing to a platter.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 48