14 Comfort Food Dinners That Start With Canned Biscuit Dough

By Hayley Sugg
May 06, 2020
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You can use canned biscuits for a whole lot more than making breakfast. This convenient refrigerated dough is key to making quick and tasty dinners (and snacks) in a flash. Canned biscuits can be rolled into crusts, folded into hand pies, or used as a flaky topping for hearty casseroles. Our 14 best recipes for canned biscuit dinners will show you how to turn this easy ingredient into satisfying meals.

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Mom's Fabulous Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuit Crust

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Get that homey pot pie flavor without all the extra effort by using this easy recipe. Canned biscuits create the comfort food crust, while leftover or rotisserie chicken makes up the creamy base.Ā 

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Tuna Pockets

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If you're a tuna melt fan, then you'll love this biscuit-wrapped version. Canned tuna combines with cheese, mayo, and herbs before being encased in a tender crust.

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Breakfast Pies

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Breakfast for dinner is a fun way to switch things up, and make cooking even easier. These individual hand pies are made with a biscuit base that's topped with a sausage, cheese, and egg mixture. Best part? They reheat easily, so leftover will be snatched up with no problem.Ā 

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Super Easy Chicken and Dumplings

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Chicken and dumplings are a classic comfort food, but quite time consuming once you've rolled the dumplings, cooked the chicken, and simmered the broth. This ultra easy version uses four simple ingredients to speed up the process without sacrificing any flavor.Ā 

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Lunch Biscuits

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There's no reason why you can't serve these for dinner, too. "They are very reminiscent of little pizza bites. Kids will love these," says Yoly. "Very easy to make with ingredients that probably everyone has."

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Barbecue Beef Cups

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You just need five ingredients for this fun dinner dish. Biscuits create a crust in muffin tins, which is topped off with layers of barbeque ground beef and shredded cheese. This recipe can be made more sweet or spicy depending on the sauce brand that you choose.

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Down Home Comfort Casserole

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Imagine all your favorite comfort foods combined into one homey casserole and you'll picture this recipe. Canned biscuits pair with gooey cheddar, fluffy eggs, and savory corned beef hash for an all-in-one dinner that's finished off with a blanket of country gravy.Ā 

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Salsa Biscuit Chicken

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This recipe is ready for when you need a quick, family-pleasing dinner. Chicken is shredded with salsa, onions, and cheese before being wrapped in flaky biscuits and baked to golden perfection. To make things even easier, you can use leftover or rotisserie chicken to cut the cooking time in half.Ā 

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Easy A La King Biscuit Casserole

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Chicken a la king is often served with a side of bread, so why not combine everything for a simple casserole dinner? "Home made goodness taste without the effort," says CPREVOST. "The kids even loved it"

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Sloppy Joe Pockets

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Sloppy joes just got portable thanks to a wrapping of tender biscuit dough. Reviewer Sydney says, "I have made these three times now and I am ADDICTED! So delicious and SO simple!"

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Cowboy Casserole

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Recipe creator Smart_Aleks says, "This combination of hamburger, beans, and bacon over biscuits will bring out the cowboy in anyone. It has become a family favorite. It is so easy to make, and we love to make it when we're camping."

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Fast and Easy Hamburger Casserole

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Stretch a pound of ground beef into a satisfying supper thanks to creamy soup, cream cheese, and a package of biscuit dough. Home cook RNTOBYE says, "Super quick for a hot supper....my family loved this. I added some onion fresh mushrooms and a tiny bit of garlic. Would recommend."

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Chicken, Rice, and Biscuit Casserole

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"If you love rice, cream of chicken soup, and biscuits, this is the meal for you" says recipe creator Kristi Walton-Brown. "I remember when I was younger and my mother had made something similar to this in a kit. I decided to try to remake it without a kit to how I remember it. It's perfect for those cool rainy days."

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Easy Pepperoni Pizza Muffins

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Four easy ingredients and 20 minutes baking time are all you need for this kid-pleasing dinner. "This was a fun and easy meal for the kids," says Tara McKinney DelVecchio. "However, it was very heavy on the bread. Next time, I would split the muffins in half. That way you make 20 and it tastes more pizza-y and less biscuit-y."

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