Sunday, December 7, 2008

Homemade Breakfast "Hot Pockets"

First of all, I have a major sinus infection and it pretty much feels like my head is in a bucket of cement, so I do hope the following posts make sense as it is hard to think!

I've never had a "Hot Pocket" because as far as I know that are not vegetarian friendly. I love the idea of a little meal in a pocket of dough. I made a breakfast version, and since I used pizza dough I guess these could also be called breakfast calzones.

There is no specific recipe since you can fill these with anything you like. For my version, I sauteed onions until they were soft. I added some diced, cooked potatoes, some beaten eggs, and a handful of grated cheese. I cooked the eggs until they were just set and the cheese was melted.

I rolled out some pizza dough that I'd made a few weeks ago and frozen. I rolled the dough into a big rectangle and then cut that into three pieces. I let the egg mixture cool, and then covered one half of each piece of dough with the eggs. I folded over the uncovered piece of dough to cover the filling, and sealed the edges-basically making an envelope of dough with an egg filling. I cut a small hole in the top of each hot pocket to let the steam vent.

I put my hot pockets on a baking sheet and baked them in a preheated 350F oven for about 20 minutes, until they were browned.

Dave loved these because they were tasty, but also because they were so portable-perfect for lunches.

**After re-reading my post I think I made these sound difficult to make. Really, it is just pizza dough filled with eggs, potatoes, and cheese. Easy!

5 comments:

  1. Great idea! Anthony loves hot pockets...regular and breakfast kinds. So he would like this. And it does sound simple. Thanks.

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  2. Oh, and I forgot to say, so sorry that you are felling bad. That is not fun. Get well soon.

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  3. Thanks. I get sinus infections every couple years.

    You can use any kind of dough for this:pizza dough, pie dough, puff pastry...even the dough that pops out of a tube will work.

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  4. These do sound good, I think Bryanna would like to make something like this since it is easy.
    Sorry about your sinus headache, nothing worse.

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  5. It's not so bad, just hard to think.

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