Homemade Hot Pockets Two Ways
As a kid, I loved hot pockets. A delicious treat contained in a perfect little package. Now that I’m an adult, I still love the concept. However, I like to have more control over the ingredients of what my family and I put into our bodies. That’s how I decided to try making my own versions of hot pockets.I did this based on ingredients I already had in my fridge. This is how many of my culinary experiments start, with no plan for dinner and a few random ingredients. For this endeavor, I found premade biscuit dough and crescent dough. These seemed perfect to try and stuff and make unique hot pockets.
First, I tried the biscuits. My family is a big fan of anything with BBQ sauce. So I decided to make BBQ Biscuit Pockets. The first step was to sauté some onions and zucchini. Any chance I have to slip some veggies into our meal I take! Then, I added some ground turkey to the skillet. Once it was browned, I mixed in BBQ sauce. That mixture is what I used for my filling.
Next, I took the biscuit dough and rolled it out so it was really thin. This allowed me to stuff more into the biscuit and makes for a thinner crust. Then, I layered shredded cheddar, the BBQ turkey mixture, and more shredded cheddar on top of the biscuit dough.
To finish up, I wrapped the dough around the stuffing in a similar fashion to wrapping a burrito. I dipped my finger in water and ran it along the seals to make sure it didn’t come apart while baking and then placed them seal down on a baking sheet.
After baking for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees we had delicious BBQ Biscuit Pockets for dinner!
A few days later I wanted to try the crescent dough. I decided to make Crescent Pizza Pockets. I’ll admit this one was a lot harder, mainly because the dough didn’t want to cooperate. It came apart much easier than the biscuit and I had a hard time sealing it.
Again, I rolled the dough out thin. Then I put pizza sauce and shredded mozzarella on top. If you want, you can put other toppings in as well (sausage, pepperoni, etc.).
I tried wrapping these in a few different ways. First, I left two triangles together and wrapped it up like a burrito, similar to how I did the biscuits. The triangles liked to try and pull apart though and so I didn’t really like this method. Next, I tried using only 1 triangle and folding the corners up so that I formed a shape like a dumpling. Last, I tried wrapping it like a regular crescent. This seemed like it wouldn’t work at all but actually ended up being the best method.
These baked for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees and came out tasting awesome! While they were a bit of a pain to prepare, the crescent dough tasted really good with the pizza filling.
If you want to cook these for future lunches, simply cook them completely and then wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for later. Then you just reheat in the oven for a delicious lunch!
So there you go, my own little culinary experiments to make homemade pizza pockets. I love doing these trials, they don’t always come out, but it’s always an experience! Now I just need to come up with some more interesting combinations to try. Do you have any suggestions?
My delicious take on a hot pocket. Using crescent dough instead of pizza dough to make a great meal. Great as a side dish, dinner, or lunch. Enjoy fresh out of the oven, or wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. Then simply remove from freezer and reheat in oven. Toddler approved!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Separate crescent dough into triangles and roll out thin.
Spread sauce onto each triangle, leaving a border around the edge.
Add shredded mozzarella on top of sauce and any optional toppings.
Roll each triangle like a regular crescent, or fold corners up like a dumpling, and place on baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until crescent is golden brown.
Serve and Enjoy!
Or if you prep ahead, wrap tightly and freeze. Then remove from freezer and reheat in oven as desired.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Separate crescent dough into triangles and roll out thin.
Spread sauce onto each triangle, leaving a border around the edge.
Add shredded mozzarella on top of sauce and any optional toppings.
Roll each triangle like a regular crescent, or fold corners up like a dumpling, and place on baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until crescent is golden brown.
Serve and Enjoy!
Or if you prep ahead, wrap tightly and freeze. Then remove from freezer and reheat in oven as desired.
Biscuits stuffed with BBQ turkey and cheddar! Great for dinner or as meal prep to freeze and reheat later for lunches.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, sauté onions and zucchini over medium high heat.
Add ground turkey and brown. Then stir in BBQ sauce.
Roll biscuit dough thin and layer stuffing: shredded cheddar, meat mixture, shredded cheddar.
Roll dough around stuffing and seal. Then place seal down on a baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven about 20 minutes or until biscuit is golden brown.
Serve and Enjoy!
If you prep these ahead of time, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then place in freezer. Then reheat in the oven as desired.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, sauté onions and zucchini over medium high heat.
Add ground turkey and brown. Then stir in BBQ sauce.
Roll biscuit dough thin and layer stuffing: shredded cheddar, meat mixture, shredded cheddar.
Roll dough around stuffing and seal. Then place seal down on a baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven about 20 minutes or until biscuit is golden brown.
Serve and Enjoy!
If you prep these ahead of time, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then place in freezer. Then reheat in the oven as desired.
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18 Comments
Armelle_dee
This looks so easy to make. I will pin this recipe. Thanks so much for sharing
Kat
Thanks! I hope you enjoy it! It is really easy to make.
Niccole
I too have always been a fan of hot pockets. I hate the cost and few that are per package. I love being able to control the ingredients. Keeping this recipe for future use.
Kat
I hope you enjoy it!
The Frugal Family (@thefrugalfamily)
The pizza pockets would go down a storm in our house, thanks for the great ideas and recipe x
Kat
I hope you enjoy!
Denisha
These look great!! I’m going to try a gluten free version for my girls.
Kat
Easy enough to do with gluten free dough!
veronica bolton
this looks super yummy! I can not wait to try it out! such an easy dinner or even lunch! Thanks for the share!
Kat
I hope you enjoy!
Marie Novak
This looks like such a quick and easy recipe. I love the idea. My kids are so picky. This way they can put inside the items that like!
Kat
It’s so customizable and easy to make so they could even do it themselves!
Pamela
Oh, yum. These look great. My son would love to make these. He loves wrapping stuff in crescent dough. Lol
Kat
Haha. Perfect then!
Anna
What a fun idea! I don’t care for fiddly things so will skip the crescent rolls. I bet the pizza pockets would be just as good made in a biscuit wrapper! I bet these would taste great with chilli inside, too.
Kat
Oh Ya! That would be awesome!
Haddie Lyons
Everytime I read ‘Hot Pockets’ I have to do it in the Jim Gaffigan voice haha:)! So excited to try these, I used to love hot pockets too but the ingredients, yikes! This looks like a delicious alternative!
Kat
HAHA! That made me laugh! I agree about the ingredients, that’s why this was the perfect experiment.