How to Make Incredibly Easy Chicken Hot Pockets
Make this portable, tasty shredded chicken hot pocket using left overs in a three step recipe. These hot pockets are perfect for snacking on during your favorite football game, or on the way to soccer practice.
This recipe is so easy, you can have these snacks made in 20 minutes or so and be on your way with food in hand.
This is also a great recipe to make with kids. You only have to supervise if your children have the most basic cooking skills.
For younger children, you’ll want to manage the oven and perhaps oversee the assembly of the pockets. However, you should be able to turn your tweens and teens loose in the kitchen to make this dish for supper.
I love this recipe for two very basic reasons:
- It uses up leftovers, turning them into a new dish.
- It capitalizes on ready to use, easy to find ingredients.
That’s what I call #ConvenienceCooking !
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I used packaged crescent roll dough. If you’ve got a fabulous, made from scratch recipe for crescent rolls, and you’re not pressed for time – then I highly recommend you use that dough!!
If you’re pressed for time and have a different form of refrigerated biscuit dough on hand, you certainly can use what you have. Don’t make a special run to the grocery store just to purchase crescent rolls.
I usually plan ahead and figure that the second or third time using my crock pot full of shredded chicken will be in this recipe. I purchase the crescent rolls in the same trip as the shredded chicken ingredients.
Some families love leftovers, and will eat the same pot of food, in the same method for an entire week. My husband has been known to do that with spaghetti.
Other families need leftovers to look like something new in order to eat them up. That’s where this recipe comes in handy!
Shredded Chicken Hot Pocket Recipe
Ingredients:
- 3 c Shredded Chicken
- 8 oz package Crescent Roll
- 1 1/2 c Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Recipe Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Lightly grease 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Unroll and separate the crescent rolls into individual triangles.
- Spread about 1/2 cup shredded chicken in the middle of each crescent roll.
- Top with a pinch of the cheddar cheese and fold corners for triangle in, to enclose the chicken inside the roll.
- Sprinkle a bit more cheese on top of each roll.
- Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
Approximate Nutritional Information:
Servings Per Recipe: 8 servings. Amount Per Serving: Calories: 285, Total Fat: 9g, Cholesterol: 89mg, Sodium: 380mg, Total Carbs: 19g, Protein: 9g
Make it a Meal:
Serve with a vegetable or bowl of soup to make a light meal. The Chicken Fajita or Broccoli Cheese soups are good with the hot pockets.
Variations:
Replace the shredded chicken with pulled pork, barbecued beef or diced ham.
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This would be perfect to make this week since we will most likely be snowed in. I could use some new dinner ideas. Looks delicious!
April … I know what you mean about needing new recipes! I fall into the habit of always making the same dishes.
This is a good enough recipe to make shredded chicken on purpose! No sense waiting for leftovers.
This looks great! Definitely going to try this with leftover chicken for the family.
Dionne
Thanks for stopping over, I’m sure your family will love this!
Cheryl is going to want these everyday after I show the post to her!
LOL As long as Cheryl is fixing them herself … is that a problem?? Maybe make up a huge batch, then have a week’s worth stashed in the fridge.
I think I’m going to give this a try with some chicken that I have and homemade nut cheese.
Charla,
That sounds like a wonderful combination!
I’m always after meals featuring left over chicken. Looks great.
You know, Mark,
I think we have left over chicken more than anything in the world at my house … except maybe left over pasta!
My kids would love these. Thanks for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday!
Quinn, thanks for coming over to see the recipe. Let me know if your kids try this!
This is fantastic! I LOVE hot pockets and you’re right, these are perfect to use up leftovers too!
I can definitely see myself making these
Thank you so much for sharing this with us at #SaucySaturdays and I hope you join us again this week. Pinned!
Dini, thanks for stopping by and #SaucySatrudays is a good time, I’ll be back!
I’m always looking for ways to use leftovers – I’m in such a habit of cooking large quantities, I need new ways to serve the food!
I don’t know what else to say about this but yum!! Thanks for sharing this with us on Throwback Thursday! Hope to see you next week!
Mollie
Mollie,
Thanks for hosting!
My grandson has a fancy for hot pockets and loves to prepare those with me at home. Need to make yours chicken sounds really yummy
Hot pockets bring out the kid in all of us, don’t they? I think I like your grandson, he has good taste!
Eating a hot pocket is so much fun. I love wraps and pockets where we can get a bunch of stuff in a mouthful. This is a very easy recipe and I can totally try a vegetarian version of it.
Easy meals are important when you’re juggling a lot of tasks (or kids!).
Yummmm! These look SO good. Perfect for a cold, rainy fall day!
You got it! I like making these on a chilly weeknight for supper … when it’s dreary outside, I don’t have a lot of energy for fancy foods. I want something warm and tasty.
All I can say is YUM. A delicious way to use up the leftovers. This makes me hungry.
Sorry about making you hungry .. no, I’m not. Go find some left over chicken and make some of these for supper! (or a snack!)
Well I love chicken pot pie, and things wrapped in pastry. These look delicious, and would be perfect to make a big batch an tuck some in the freezer….or give them to the kids!!
Good idea … making a batch and freezing them! Doesn’t pastry make pretty much anything better?
You made a delicious at the same time party dish with just 3 ingredients. who can resist chicken and cheese. My kids will love it as they are fan of chicken and cheddar cheese.
That’s why I call it #ConvenienceCooking … simple instructions, few ingredients … let’s do it!
I love making different things with crescent rolls. I love chicken and cheese, it’s one of my favorite combinations.
If we add some bacon in there, you’ve got all of my favorites! LOL There’s the next recipe!!
My family would think it was the best day EVER if I served these up for dinner! I love the idea of repurposing leftovers into something new. Such a great tip!
Make your family happy, then … serve this up for Sunday supper! Or Monday. Or Tuesday. Or … you get the picture!
What a great idea. Kids and grown-ups too like eating a dish in a different form. For some reason it’s more appealing and it seems like it tastes better. I’m a firm believer in letting kids help in the kitchen. It’s fun and they learn while they’re at it. Very tasty looking meal!!
It does taste better when leftovers are mixed in a different recipe – something about all that’s old is new again, right?
I love these hot pockets and I love how versatile these are. This sounds so delicious. My kids love helping in the kitchen too. I think it’s so much.
Great idea to get the kids involved, Veena. This is an easy enough recipe they could help with any time!
What a great way to use up leftover chicken.. I know my kids would love this..they go mad for the sweet ones you buy in the supermarketvwhich I hate and only by once in a while. This is much better, can’t wait to try it
Let me know how they like the homemade version, Karyn. I’m sure you’ll be happier with these at any rate!
These would make a great little lunch, or leftover dinner idea. I love that it only uses three ingredients!
Joanna,
So true, so true! 3 and 5 are some of my favorite numbers for ingredient lists!
Ok, my kids are going to go nuts for these. Love this idea and the simplicity. The possibilities with this simple recipe are endless.
Sounds like this would be a winner at your house. Try it out and let me know if the results are as you expect.
I am in live with this recipe!! I am always looks out for simple.quick and less ingredients lunch box recipes for my kids and this is a keeper for sure!
Soniya, lunch can be such a challenge, especially when you try to balance picky eaters with good nutrition and try to avoid boredom.