Homemade Hot Pockets

My love for cooking does not, unfortunately, always translate into healthy meals for my children.  As I mentioned previously, we are often strapped for time.  Also known as, "mom didn't pull anything out to thaw for dinner." So, I am always trying to think of things I can make for the kids that are quick, easy and somewhat nutritious. They eat a lot of chicken nuggets, PB&J, hot dogs, macaroni, etc.

It took me about 30 mins to make these on a Saturday afternoon.  The kids both devoured them and I froze the others for reheating later.

For this batch, I made turkey pizza hot pockets and turkey with broccoli and cheese.  You could do any combo of meat/veggies/sauce/cheese that you want.

Ingredients

1 TBL olive oil

2 cloves of garlic

1lb of ground turkey

3 rolls of crescent roll dough

For pizza hot pockets:

1 1/2 cups of spaghetti sauce

1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese

First, I browned the turkey meat w/ a little olive oil and chopped up garlic cloves.

I laid out the triangles from the crescent dough.  I mixed some ground turkey in with the spaghetti sauce and put about 2 large TBL of the mixture on the dough.  I then sprinkled it with shredded mozzarella.  I took another triangle and covered it and sealed it around the edges. 

For broccoli cheese hot pockets:

1 box of frozen broccoli w/ cheese sauce

1 cup of shredded colby jack cheese

Same steps as the pizza pockets. 

I put the pockets on a greased baking sheet and baked them according to the directions on the crescent roll can.

I let them cool and then wrapped them in plastic wrap, then tin foil, then put them in a ziploc bag to go in the freezer. 

I had to play with the wrapping for a while until I figured out the best way to keep everything inside.  I found that trying to pull up the sides on the bottom crescent to contain everything, and then using the top one to make sure it was all covered worked best!

Enjoy!

Alison