I’m so happy so many of you remember this recipe! With all this talk of pizza, I’ve had a lot of people asking for this post so I’ll put it up again, either to introduce you to pizza pockets or to jog your memory! This recipe is SO great & suprisingly EASY (so easy I made a video to prove it)! There is so much for your kids to help with in this recipe. They can knead the dough, help you roll it out, help fill them (I love giving kids options of what they put inside the pockets), and of course EAT them! You can do Hot Pocket flavors like Pepperoni Pizza, Ham & Cheese, Broccoli Cheese and others or you can make up your own! These also freeze great and re-heat in the microwave well. (So great for lunches on the go or for your hubbie to take to work) Or you can make them for a dinner party and let everyone choose what they put inside. It’s so fun!
Hot Pocket Dough- makes six 6 inch pockets
1 C. Luke Warm Water
2 T. Olive Oil or Canola Oil
1 t. Sugar
1/2 t. Salt
3 C. Flour (I usually do Half all-purpose and half whole wheat or all whole wheat flour)
1 1/2 t. Yeast
Dough by Hand:
Dissolve Yeast in warm water. Add Oil, Sugar, and salt. Slowly mix in flour and knead. Cover and let rise for 45 minutes.
Dough in Bread Machine: (this is my favorite because you can throw all the ingredients in and set the dough cycle and get some other things done while it’s doing the work for you!)
Add ingredients in order your bread machine specifys (for example: for mine I need to add the liquid first, then dry ingredients, and then form a well and pour my yeast in). You don’t want your dough to raise for more than one hour. Most bread machine dough cycles will “beat” down the dough and you’ll want to take the dough out before it does that. Consult your users manual for timing and instructions on how to put the ingredients in.
1. Pre-heat oven to 375
2. When dough is ready, separate it in to 6 portions. If you want to be really exact, you can weigh the dough. I usually just eye ball it.
3. Using a rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/8 inch thick circles.
4. Let dough rest for 5 minutes.
5. Put 1/4-1/2 cup worth of filling. If you’re making all the same kind of hot pockets mix all your filling items together and use a scoop to fill the pockets.
6. Fold dough in half over the filling and clamp edges with fork.
7. You can brush the tops with an egg white wash (1 egg white beaten with 1-2 T. water) if you want them to look really professional! (I usually don’t because I think they look delicious with out the hassle. Besides I can’t ever figure out anything to use that one egg yolk in and I hate to waste it!)
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these! My husband, who has never showed much interest in what I make actually requests these! I love that I can get my 3year old involved and she's excited about eating them because she helped. Thanks for this site it has completely changed the way I cook! Can't wait to get your book!
kathy
Did I miss the recipe for the filling? I only see the recipe for the dough, this is a must to try, my son loves hot pockets and I love it that you can freeze them!
Vivienne
So I made these today. They were good. They didn't look as nice as yours. So when do you actually take out the dough from the breadmaker? Do you take it out when its done meaning when it "beeps"? I took mine out about an hour into the cycle. The full cycle is 1 1/2. The dough was still a little sticky but I kneaded it w/ some flour and it turned out okay.
Shannon
We've had these before. We're having them again tonight because we liked them a lot. They are easy, nutritious, and delicious. Does it get any better than that? I plan on making some extras so we can freeze them. Does your bread machine have the capacity to double this recipe? Have you ever done that? Just curious.
Kathy
I made these today and they are great! Instead of the egg wash I just used some olive oil on top. They came out golden brown and crunchy. Thanks!
NadjaUK
I would also love to have some quotes from the Prophets, especially the Ezra Taft Benson one - to share with my LDS friends at our toddlder group please. Should I email you to ask for them ?
admin
I'm so glad you liked them! Personally, I use a K Tec Kitchen Grinder. I have also heard that NutriMills are good.
Katei
I made these yesterday and they were soooo easy! I made ham with cheese and plain mozzarella and marinara that was left over. My 6 year old loved them and they were great leftover in the microwave. We dunked them in the marinara sauce too! yummy! Thanks for the great ideas!
Also I have been looking at wheat grinders. Do you have any reccomendations? What do you use?
Crystal
Marissa,
To mark these at a party, I usually just use a fork and make the first letter in the persons name.
Crystal
Crystal
Wilde Mom,
I don't have a dessert recipe for them. I would try adding in a little extra sugar or using your favorite cinnamon roll dough recipe and just rolling it out for the hot pockets. I'm so happy you tried these!
Crystal
wilde mom
I loved these! do you happen to have a recipe for dessert ones? I have a lot of apples and thought apple tarts but I didnt know if there were any tried and true recipes out there
Marissa
Do you have any suggestions for how to mark the pockets before baking them?
Cynthia Z
I love it! I only had a few of the pockets split when they cooked, and they turned out wonderful. For us, it just doesn't cut it for dinner (I didn't really expect it to though), but I'm sure it will be great for the kids and on the go snacks! I did broccoli ham and cheese, ham and cheese, and turkey and cheese. We used a bit of ranch dressing to dip them in.
Mummy of Two
I am so trying this with my boys next week!
Crystal
Jessica,
I've never frozen them before they were cooked because I think it is so much easier to just re-heat them out of the freezer than cooking them from the freezer. If you try freezing before you bake them, definitely let me know how it works for you. I'm curious to find out. Thanks!
Jessica
Have you ever frozen them before they were baked? If so, did it work well?
Crystal
First you can use things the prophets have said. (You can email me for some quotes I've found off of lds.org) Ezra Taft Benson said that Food Storage would be as important to us as the ark was to Noah. So it will LITERALLY save our lives. You can also point out the benefits of using food storage everyday.
1. Save Time 2. Save Money (You're able to wait to purchase things until they are on sale and you live on last year's economy) 3. It Makes Less Mess 4. Less trips to the grocery store saving time, money, and gas. 5. You're never out of anything because you always have an extra. 6. Make any recipe because you always have ingredients on hand when you have a working 3 month and year supply 7. Invaluable preparation for not only the everyday emergency but the life emergency as well. Everyone knows that they will have to use food storage sometime in their life (whether they want to admit it or not, the economy and mother nature are proving that to us right now) and everyone would like to know that they have it, can cook with it, and that their family will actually eat it!
Let me know if you have any other questions. I really feel food storage is SO NECESSARY! I would hate to look around at people during a life crisis when they need food and have them ask me why I never taught them about food storage. That is why it's so great you're teaching this class. None of us want to see the people we love not have the keys to take care of themselves in a life crisis. Keep up the great work! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Tam
Hey I'm supposed to do a class at enrichment next week about reasons we are asked to have food storage! If it were you doing the class where is the first place you would go for good info that would help really inspire the sisters to want to follow the cousel of our leaders about food storage?
Thanks a bunch!
~Holly
Yummy! What a good idea. You are so fun! Keep up the great work! :)
brogansmomma
The one we did eat was very good. My son was wanting one of the meatball ones (I quartered meatballs and sprinkled them in some) but I couldn't tell without cutting into one so we ended up with a chicken one. Very tasty!
brogansmomma
I made these tonight. I was hoping for quick as well as easy but quick didn't happen. I doubled the recipe, so ended up with 12, but I think I rolled them too thin. They turned out just fine but seemed pretty big. I guessing I was expecting to get six on a pan instead of just four (I used a regular cookie sheet/jelly roll pan). I grabbed a few things out of the fridge - chicken, meatballs, cheese, zucchini, onion, shredded carrots, Caesar dressing, sundried tomato pesto, salsa, mushrooms, pineapple... I don't think any two pockets are alike. And each one will be a surprise since I wasn't sure how to mark them to indicate what was inside.
As for the egg wash, I just used a whole egg beaten with a little water and they turned out great. Some recipes I have for other things that use a wash call for egg white and some call for egg yolk so I figured I was safe. I never know what to do with the remaining part otherwise either.
Crystal
Andrea,
Great question! I freeze mine after I bake them so I can just re-heat in them in the microwave for a couple of minutes.
Crystal
Andrea
So do you freeze these before or after you bake them?
Mary
These look good! I have a recipe for something similar to these (calzones) but I haven't used it in a while. I'll have to try these ones, and I love how you can freeze these. Such a great idea for lunches!
I’m so happy so many of you remember this recipe! With all this talk of pizza, I’ve had a lot of people asking for this post so I’ll put it up again, either to introduce you to pizza pockets or to jog your memory! This recipe is SO great & suprisingly EASY (so easy I made a video to prove it)! There is so much for your kids to help with in this recipe. They can knead the dough, help you roll it out, help fill them (I love giving kids options of what they put inside the pockets), and of course EAT them! You can do Hot Pocket flavors like Pepperoni Pizza, Ham & Cheese, Broccoli Cheese and others or you can make up your own! These also freeze great and re-heat in the microwave well. (So great for lunches on the go or for your hubbie to take to work) Or you can make them for a dinner party and let everyone choose what they put inside. It’s so fun!
