Chicken Pockets

 

These babies are ridiculously more-ish. The first time I made them, I shaped them in round bundles (kind of like a chinese pork bun, except with chicken), and a couple in more log-ish shapes.

This time around, I stuck with the log shape, they kind of remind me of hot pockets, except bigger, better, and without all the crap I can't pronounce.

I used the hamburger dough recipe, and once it had gone through the process - I cut it into 8 pieces. Rolled it out, then filled it, wrapped it, sprinkled with parmesan and baked it.  

This recipe was inspired by Seeded at the Table and adapted to our tastes

INGREDIENTS:

• One batch of hamburger dough (or you could use pizza dough)
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 3 small chicken breasts, diced small
• 1 large onion, diced finely
• 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
• 5oz cream cheese
• 2 Tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 tsp seasoned salt
• pinch ground black pepper
• 1 tsp herbs de provence (you could use italian seasoning if you want)
• splash of milk
• 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
• Parmesan cheese for sprinkling 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Add the olive oil to a skillet and heat on medium high.
3. Add chicken, onion and garlic - and cook until chicken is browned (adds a bunch of flavor) and the onions are soft.
4. Mix cream cheese, butter, seasoned salt, pepper and herbs de provence and a splash of milk in a bowl. 
5. Add cream cheese mixture to skillet with chicken, and mix. 
6. Roll out pieces of dough into rectangles, add about a 1/4-1/2 cup of chicken, a little mozzarella on top of the mixture, and roll up.  There are couple of ways to do this, burrito style, or taquito style. You just do whatever you feel like doing, it's bread, it's filling - we're going to bake it, so it's going to be good no matter the shape, right?
7. Brush the top of the chicken bundles with a little melted butter, and sprinkle a little parmesan on top.
8. Bake for around 20 minutes, or until the bottom is good and brown, as well as the tops. 
9. Devour immediately, or freeze individually for reheating whenever you need a snack.