Easy Cheeseburger Hot Pockets with French Fry Topping (2024)

Cheeseburger hot pockets make fabulous comfort food! These cheeseburger hand pies with French fry topping aren’t hard to make and they boast so much flavour plus a charming homemade look.

Take everything you love about cheeseburgers and fries and team those ingredients with puff pastry to make this unusual snack. The puff pastry pocket burger is hearty, tasty and easy to prepare.

Cheeseburger Hot Pockets Ingredients

If you have all the makings of burgers and fries but crave something a little more unique, this burger empanada recipe is ideal. The main ingredients are puff pastry sheets (rather than the buns you’d expect with burgers), thawed French fries and ground beef.

In addition you’ll need steak seasoning, pickles, cheese, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and an egg wash. Plus some lettuce, onions and tomatoes to serve.

However you like your cheeseburgers or Italian sliders you can implement in this recipe. Or even take inspiration from chopped Italian sliders.

So if you aren’t keen on pickles or onions, for example, simply leave them out or make other adjustments. You can use hash browns or waffles instead of the French fries if you prefer. They will give a very similar flavor to the hot pockets.

How to Make Cheeseburger Hand Pies

Once you have all the cheeseburger hot pockets ingredients to hand, you can make the recipe. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on a baking sheet them arrange the fries on top and then more plastic wrap.

Sauté the beef with the steak seasoning then drain once browned. Next cut the puff pastry sheets into rectangles, sprinkle on some shredded cheese and then add some ground beef and pickles to each one. Fold the pastry up over the burger empanada filling and seal.

Break up the fries between the sheets of plastic wrap using a meat mallet or similar then sprinkle them with salt. Brush egg wash over the pastry and press the broken-up French fry topping into the pastry.

Now you can freeze the cheeseburger hot pockets for about 10 minutes to help the fries stick to the pastry. After that you can bake the cheeseburger hand pies in the oven. The mustard, mayo and ketchup combine to make a tasty dipping sauce.

History of Hot Pockets

Whether you call them cheeseburger hot pockets, burger empanada wraps or a puff pastry pocket burger, hot pockets are a nice snack. This recipe is based on commercial hot pockets which are a type of savoury turnover. They have been around for decades and are a quick and easy snack because they are microwaveable.

There are actually 50 types of hot pockets plus other variations such as croissant crust ones and pretzel bread ones too. These snacks have been around since 1980 and the special sleeve was designed to keep the hot pockets crispy during cooking.

Puff Pastry Pocket Burger FAQs

Good Tips for Hot Pockets

• Don’t overfill the cheeseburger hand pies since you don’t want them to explode or the filling to leak!
• Make sure the fries for the French fry topping are completely thawed before assembling the burger empanada pockets so they don’t leak water into the pies as any remaining ice melts.
• I like to poke a few holes in the top of each one before baking so steam can escape during baking.
• Get creative by adding bacon, ham or pepperoni to the cheeseburger hand pies.

Easy Cheeseburger Pockets with French Fry Topping Recipe

Cheeseburger hot pockets, or cheeseburger hand pies, make a hearty snack. They’re much better than the frozen version from the grocery store and really deliver on flavour.

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