Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer are a flavorful hot appetizer your guests are sure to love! They are filled with chicken, cream cheese, pesto, mozzarella cheese and sun dried tomatoes. This yummy appetizer is ready in only 30 min! Easy and delicious is just what the hostess ordered.
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Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer
I just love tasty, hot hors d’oeuvres! I like this Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer as much as the Easy Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms. Both are easy and popular at our parties. Around the holidays, they pair well with Tiramisu Eggnog Cocktail.
Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Appetizer
How to Make Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer
*The full recipe is at the bottom of this post.
First, preheat oven to 375F.
Next, in a medium size bowl, combine cooked shredded chicken, pesto, cream cheese, sun dried tomatoes, shredded mozzarella cheese, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Mix well.
Then, cut the puff pastry into 3 inch by 2 inch rectangles and place into a mini muffin pan.
Next, fill each puff pastry with chicken filling. Fold puff pastry over to slightly close.
Last, bake in 375F oven for 15 min.
This Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer not only sounds like a tasty recipe, it IS a tasty recipe! Your party guests will love them. They are easy-to-make and can be made ahead. Plus, the puff pastry makes them a filling appetizer so, you won’t need to make a lot of apps.
It’s a great way to use up leftover pesto sauce. With only a few ingredients, this makes a tasty appetizer everyone will love!
You Don’t Have Cooked Chicken?
If you don’t already have cooked chicken, it is easy to poach it. Just put a skinless, boneless chicken breast in a small pot with water covering it. Simmer on med/high heat for 15 until no longer pink inside. This chicken will be moist and tender. If you so fancy, add half of an onion to the water to add some nice flavor to the chicken.
Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer
If you plan on making these for party, plan on them disappearing. Even those who aren’t pesto fans can appreciate these because the pesto taste is not dominate. The sun dried tomatoes add a nice flavor to balance the pesto. Cream cheese is what makes this appetizer irresistible!
Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer are a delicious hors devours to serve at your next party because not only are they absolutely cheesy delicious, they are easy-to-make in 30 min! Your guests will think they’re eating at the Ritz when they bite into these tasty appetizers.
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I took this recipe to Weekend Potluck.
Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites Appetizer
Ingredients
- 1 small cooked chicken breast shredded
- 2 puff pastry sheet cut into 3" long by 2" wide pieces
- 8 oz of cream cheese softened
- 4 oz of shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 tbsp pesto sauce
- 4 tbsp sun dried tomatoes in olive oil chopped
- 1/8 tsp of garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- In a medium size bowl, combine all ingredients except puff pastry. Mix well.
- Put puff pastry rectangles into mini muffin tin.
- Fill each puff pastry with chicken filling. Fold puff pastry over to slightly close.
- Bake in 375F oven for 15 min.
Notes
Make Ahead Instructions:
- Make chicken filling ahead, store in fridge.
- Then, place in puff pastry.
- Last, bake in oven per recipe directions.
Nutrition
That’s a great idea to add pine nuts. Now you have a head start into making them again. Thanks for the comment and glad they were a hit!
I made these for a party we went to tonight and they were very popular. I added about a quarter cup of toasted pine nuts to the filling which made it extra good. I had about half of the filling left over, even though they were filled just right. I froze the leftover filling to use next time I make these.
Hi Jan!
To make this recipe ahead, prep them but don’t bake them until you’re ready to serve them (in the same day.) you can reheat leftovers but they won’t taste quite as good and the same goes for freezing leftovers. Don’t let that discourage you though because you may not have leftovers.
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These sound wonderful! To make ahead, should they be baked first, then reheated? What about freezing? Thanks! I just found this site and really like it!!.,
I am always looking for easy to make and tasty appetizers, and this one hits home in everyway, love the addition of pesto to this! great recipe
What would we do without puff pastry – I always have some in the freezer! This is my kind of appetizer – love anything with pesto. Thanks for sharing with Fiesta Friday!