Veggie Bombs
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Forgive the pun, but these veggie bombs really are the bomb! Filled with nutritious vegetables and gooey cheese, these bombs could destroy any misconceptions meat lovers have about good tasting food. Yes, they are that good! Served as a snack or as a meal with a bowl of soup on the side (they go particularly well with cream of potato or broccoli cheese soup), each of these individual delights will hit the spot with explosions of awesome flavor! Bomb puns aside, these veggie bombs really are delicious, quite filling, and very easy to make. Make some yourself and see!
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Ingredients
1 package refrigerated crescent dough
1/3 cup broccoli, chopped and cooked 1/3 cup cauliflower, chopped and cooked 1/3 cup carrots, diced and cooked 2 slices American process cheese slices 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese |
Prep Time: 15 minutes
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[The three vegetables listed here go well together in this recipe, but feel free to experiment with other combinations.]
Directions
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Combine the cooked vegetables in a bowl.
Due to the size of each individual bomb, be sure to chop each vegetable into small pieces. I like using kitchen scissors here. Just place a few of each cooked vegetable in a bowl and go all gangster with the shears. Broccoli tends to get everywhere, so you can use a spoon to corral everything more or less together. |
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Fold each American slice into eight smaller triangles by first folding the entire slice into quarters and then folding each quarter to make two rectangles, as shown.
The quarters are easy to form if you fold the slice in half twice over. Then taking an individual quarter square, fold it so two opposite corners touch. You will get two triangles from each quarter piece, as shown. |
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Unroll crescent dough onto wax paper and cut into triangles. Place on American cheese triangle on dough triangle and add a few shreds of cheddar cheese, as shown.
By stacking the cheeses, you get them to combine during baking so the result is a nice blend of cheesy goodness. |
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Place a small spoonful of the vegetable mix on top of the cheese.
You want to make sure you don't put on too much. And you will know how much is too much when you start to fold the crescent dough. |
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Place another American cheese triangle on top of vegetables and top with a few more shreds of cheddar cheese.
This is a key trick in the preparation. By sandwiching the vegetables between layers of cheese, you get the cheese "infiltrating" the veggie mix and acting as a binder that holds everything inside the bomb together. |
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Fold the dough around the cheese-vegetable stack as shown. Start with one corner of the triangle, then roll the next nearest corner up and to the side. Finish by wrapping the final corner towards the center of the wrap and massaging the dough to completely encapsulate the contents.
Depending on how much vegetable mix you spooned onto the dough, you may need to massage the dough around the contents as you fold the dough, not just after. Regardless, make sure the contents are completely enclosed in the dough. |
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Place in greased baking baking pan and repeat for the remainder of ingredients. Top each bomb with a few more shreds of cheddar cheese, pressing the cheese slightly into the dough.
The cheese on top is more than just garnish. It provides a crispy, baked cheese on top that really complements well the gooey, melted cheese inside. |
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Bake in 375ºF oven for 15 minutes.
This is longer than the time listed on the crescent container, but you need a longer baking time because you baking more than just dough. If you bake these for only 10 minutes, for example, you will find that the dough is mostly baked but not firm, making the contents of each individual bomb more able to shift in place when you hold it and eat it. That extra five minutes does the trick. |
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Remove bombs from baking pan and separate. Allow to cool for a few minutes and serve.
The bombs shown here were baked in an 8"x8" baking pan. You would think that, as closely together as the bombs were in that smaller size pan, the bombs would expand and bake into each other, joining adjacent bombs like Siamese twins. But in actuality they are not quite conjoined and easy to separate them without opening any of them and spilling out the contents. Separating them is not essential; it just helps them cool more quickly. Once they are cool to the touch, you can serve and enjoy! |
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