Recipe: Homemade Hot Pockets

Homemade Hot Pockets

Dough:
1 Tbsp yeast
1 Tbsp sugar
1 cup warm water
2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp salt
2 3/4 to 3 1/4 cups flour

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add sugar. Let it set for a few minutes until foamy (if you're using fast-rise yeast, you can just add the yeast with the flour and go on). Then stir in oil, salt, and flour. Knead 5 minutes. Let sit 5 minutes.

Divide dough into 6 pieces. Roll/pat each piece into a circle (maybe about 6-inches across or so?).

Top half of each circle with filling of choice, keeping back from edges so it will seal well. Fold the other 1/2 of circle over the filling and pinch sides together or seal with a fork.

Poke a couple steam vents and bake for 20 minutes at 375 F.

You can fill this with a little pizza sauce, then mushrooms, pepperoni, cheese, etc. OR with cream soup, chopped cooked chicken and steamed broccoli, and some shredded cheese, OR ham cubes and cheese or cheese sauce, or whatever--leftover stew, chili, etc.

Here is a filling recipe to get you started:
1 onion, chopped
3-5 cloves of garlic, pressed
1 whole chicken breast, chopped small (that means both sides of the breast)
2 carrots shredded
1 med head and stems of broccoli, chopped small
1 can of cream of chicken
1 can of cream of mushroom

Combine 1st two ingredients. Then add chicken, cook until done. Add remaining ingredients until warmed.

Yes, they do freeze well.

alt.mothers/ChefRhonda (2002)