{"id":317,"date":"2009-06-16T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:55:58","slug":"mexi-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Mexi-pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It's really a chicken and potato hot pocket.<\/p><\/div>\n

Total time:\u00a0 1 hour for prep, plus 1 hour per 10 Mexi-pockets.<\/p>\n

For lack of a better term, that’s what I call these little crosses between hot pockets and empanadas. Make them with or without meat, with or without flavor. I do not recommend putting cheese inside of them, as the dough tends to soak it all up.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, all ingredients are optional; I use what I have available.<\/p>\n

2 chicken breasts
\n3 medium russet potatoes, cut into 1\/4″ cubes
\n1-2 poblano<\/a> peppers, finely chopped
\n1 medium onion, finely chopped
\n3 cloves of garlic
\n2 habanero<\/a> or serrano<\/a> peppers<\/p>\n

That’s where I always start. My preference is to put the meat, onions, seasonings and poblano peppers in my crock-pot on low, overnight with two cups of water.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I boiled my chicken breasts with a tablespoon of lime juice, then separated and shredded the meat with two forks.<\/p>\n

Boil your diced potatoes until they’re tender, but not soft, about 5 minutes. In a skillet, fry your onions and garlic until your onions start to turn clear, about 3 minutes on med-high. You can add any other vegetables or peppers at this time and fry them in the skillet – if you are not using a crock-pot, then I’d definitely fry all of your vegetables before putting them in your mixing bowl.<\/p>\n

Place shredded meat and fried vegetables in a large mixing bowl. For potato pockets, we normally do the following for flavor:<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon California chili<\/a> powder (for color!)
\n2 tsp salt
\n1 tsp ground cumin
\n1 tsp ground cinnamon
\n1 tsp paprika
\n1 tsp black pepper
\njuice of one lime<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/a>

It's the Empanadalamo!<\/p><\/div>\n

Add to your vegetable mixture, mix well… or add nothing and use it as is!<\/p>\n

I like to scoop my mix into empanada shaped pastries<\/a>, but you could also just make burritos or lettuce wraps.<\/p>\n

Typical accompaniments:
\nsalsa, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, cilantro, green onions, lime<\/p>\n

Try it with:
\nshredded beef, pork or tofu; black beans, pinto beans, or kidney beans; corn, carrots, peas, cabbage, spinach – frozen, canned or fresh (but not all at once!)<\/p>\n

You can place your uncooked hot pockets or empanadas on a cookie sheet and freeze separately, then pile them all up in a freezer bag for later use. Or cook them all at once; they keep for up to 3 days in the refrigerator or 3 months in the freezer, and they reheat amazingly well (must be the shortening in the dough?).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spicy meat, vegetables and potatoes with empanada dough make a nice little homemade hot pocket. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,14,4],"tags":[40,51,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}