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Home Made Pizza Pockets

Because the girls primary school is so small, they don’t have a canteen. On Wednesdays parents take turns of cooking a hot meal to share, whilst on Mondays and Fridays the girls are allowed to take hot food to school. The food is then put into a pie warmer to be heated for lunch. Most kids take sausage rolls, and pies etc, but I have been trying to come up with some healthier alternatives to the processed junk, which I can just freeze and pull out in the morning before school.

Over the weekend we made some home made pizza pockets. The girls both thought they were much better than the shop bought variety, and they reheat nicely too!

If you’re school doesn’t let the kids heat up food at school, try heating them in the morning, wrapping in foil, and then in an insulating container to keep it hot.

Home Made Pizza Pockets
 
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Make your own pizza pockets for kids lunch boxes
Author: Jo @ Country Life Experiment
Recipe type: Lunch box
Ingredients
  • Dough
  • 1½ cups warm water
  • 2t yeast (14g)
  • 1t sugar
  • 2T olive oils
  • 2t salt
  • 4c plain flour
  • Filling
  • 200g of cheese - grated
  • 3 slices of ham - diced
  • 1small tin of pineapple - finely chopped
  • 2T tomato paste
  • 1T chopped fresh herbs
  • 2T milk
Method
  1. Place the warm water, yeast, and sugar into a large bowl. Place in a warm place for 5 minutes.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients and mix to form a dough.
  3. Knead the dough on the bench for 10 minutes until it is smooth, and elastic.
  4. Place the dough back into the bowl. Cover with cling wrap, and place in a warm place to allow the dough to rise. The dough should double in size.
  5. Mix all filling ingredients together in a bowl.
  6. Turn the dough out onto a clean bench, and knead again
  7. Divide the dough into 12 equal sized balls.
  8. Roll one ball of dough out into a circle.
  9. Place a heaped spoonful of filling into the centre of the dough.
  10. Brush a small amount of milk around the edge of the dough, and then use your fingers to crimp it together to form a semi circular parcel.
  11. Place the parcel on a baking tray.
  12. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
  13. Allow the parcels to sit for 20 minutes in a warm place to allow the dough to rise again.
  14. Bake at 200*c for 20 minutes until lightly golden.
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Have you got any good ideas for kids lunch boxes?

 

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  1. EssentiallyJess says

    June 21, 2013 at 4:53 am

    I mades some pizza pockets the other week too, and they were so yummy! I like the idea of making them kind of pasty shaped. I was cutting out circles and sticking them on top of each other, which was a lot of work!

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  2. ♥.Trish.♥ Drumboys says

    June 18, 2013 at 11:14 am

    Yum. I know my boys would love them.

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  3. circleoftoast says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:20 am

    I needed this post right now – my kids wanted me to buy Pizza Pockets from the shop, and they were so expensive! Love the idea of making our own – thanks!

    Reply
  4. Anne @ Domesblissity says

    June 18, 2013 at 6:42 am

    They look delicious Jo. My son would love those in his lunch box. He hasn't had tuckshop all year and I don't think he would anyway. There's nothing appealing on the menu compared to what he gets in his lunchbox! LOL

    Anne xx

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  5. Miss Cinders says

    June 18, 2013 at 4:14 am

    Ohhhh they look soooo good! I've bookmarked to come back so I can make them with the kids!

    Fabulous idea and so easy!

    MC x
    #teamIBOT

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  6. katrinalovesjustin says

    June 18, 2013 at 2:46 am

    I like this. We have a bunch of pizza dough in the freezer (we have a wood-fired pizza oven that is hideously wet so we can't use it at the moment), and this is the perfect thing for us to try.
    My girls might actually EAT something I make. Now that would be a miracle.

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