The 12 Best Foods That Come In Pocket Form
Who needs utensils when you can have delicious food in portable packages? Along with Totino’s® Pizza Rolls®, take a look at some tasty pocket treats that put the fun back in snacking.
1. Dumplings
Filled with meat and herbs or veggies and vermicelli, dumplings can come in endless combinations, all portable and palatable.
2. Pizza Rolls®
Pizza Rolls® Hot Snacks are made of a golden crust stuffed with delicious pizza ingredients. With Pizza flavor in every bite, what more could you ask for?
3. Empanadas
Like dumplings, the term Empanada can apply to a wide variety of stuffed bread pockets. They’re most often found stuffed with meat and cheese.
4. Apple Pies
Turn apple pie into a cute bite-sized treat! These apple pie pockets are an easy way to put a creative and delicious spin on a classic dessert.
5. Pierogis
Pierogis are dumplings made with unleavened dough. They are first boiled, then baked or fried usually in butter with onions – traditionally stuffed with potato filling, sauerkraut, ground meat, cheese, or fruit.
6. Samosas
A Samosa is a fried or baked pastry with a savory filling such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, lentils, ground lamb or chicken. The size and shape may vary, but many versions are triangular. They are a popular appetizer in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Southwest Asia.
7. Pastelitos
Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry-type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. Traditional fillings include cream cheese, cheese, pineapple, and coconut.
8. Wontons
The most common filling is ground pork with a small amount of flour added as a binder. The mixture is seasoned with salt, spices, and often garlic or finely chopped green onion.
9. Pasties
The is a baked pastry associated with Cornwall in Great Britain. It’s made by placing uncooked filling on a flat pastry circle and folding it to wrap the filling, crimping the edge to form a seal.
10. Panzarotti
Panzarotti or panzerotti are filled, savory pastries. They are small versions of the calzone or closed pizza, but produced with a softer dough. The most common fillings are tomato and mozzarella, but spinach, mushrooms, baby corn, and ham are often used.
11. Calzones
A calzone is a turnover or folded pizza. It is shaped like a half-moon and made of bread dough. A typical calzone is stuffed with tomato and mozzarella, and other ingredients that are normally associated with pizza toppings.
12. Jamaican Beef Patties
A Jamaican patty is a pastry that contains various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. It is made like a turnover but is more savory. It is commonly found in Jamaica, and is also eaten in other areas of the Caribbean, such as Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.
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