Sausage Spinach Braid
Ingredients
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1 pkgpillsbury crescent dough sheets ( or rolls if you can't find the sheets
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1 pkg10 oz pkg frozen chopped spinach (thawed) and squeezed dry
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1/2 mediumonion (chopped)
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2 Tbspjarred minced garlic
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1 ccottage cheese (drained of most of the liquid)
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3 ozmozzarella cheese
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1/2 creal shreded parmasean cheese (not the green can stuff)
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3 sliceprovalone cheese
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1 can(s)or a few fresh sliced mushrooms (if desired)
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1 lbroll of rb rice's medium sausage browned and drained
How to Make Sausage Spinach Braid
- Preheat oven to 400* then start to brown the sausage in a medium sauce pan and add the onion to cook till sausage is done and onions are translucent. drain completely
- roll out the crescent dough in a jelly roll pan or large cookie sheet till it's 1/4 in thick or so.
- Drain both the spinach and cottage cheese. Wring out the Spinach completely.
- In a Large mixing bowl. Mix the Sausage mixture, spinach, cottage cheese, garlic,parmesan cheese,and mushrooms(if desired)
- Spread evenly down the center of the crescent sheet and top with the mozzarella cheese and the 3 slices of provalone down the center of the sausage,spinach mixture. Cut slits on edges of either side of the crescent about every inch or so, down the whole length of the sausage mixture and bring over the top so forms a braid.
Bake at 400* for 24 min. This should easily feed 4 people but it's so good, they will surely want more.