I'm not quite sure how I came across this recipe, but I'm glad I did!

These things are wonderful. Like a soft dinner roll stuffed with goodness.

https://tastykitchen.com/recip...rok-cabbage-pockets/

Description
A German recipe. I actually love these so much, I’ve been known to eat them for breakfast. And if you’ve got cabbage haters in the family, just substitute rice!

Ingredients
2 packages (7g Packet) Yeast
½ cups Sugar
1-½ Tablespoon Salt
3-½ cups Warm Water
½ cups Oil
1 Tablespoon Vinegar
8 cups Flour
2 cloves Garlic, Minced
1 whole Onion, Chopped
1 pound Ground Beef
1 whole Cabbage, Shredded
Salt And Pepper, to taste

Preparation
Mix the yeast, sugar, sat, warm water, oil, vinegar, and flour together. Let rise 1 hour. Punch down. Let rise 45 minutes. Roll out to about 1/16″ thick.

Saute garlic and onions; add ground beef and fry until browned. Add cabbage and fry until tender (tastes better if cabbage is browned well). Salt and pepper to taste.

Cut the dough into 5×5″ squares and put a generous portion of the beef mixture on the middle of each square. Gather all 4 corners together and pinch shut each diagonal seam toward the center. Turn upside down on a baking sheet.

Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. Brush with butter when they come out of the oven.
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The only thing I'd recommend is doubling the filling recipe as this makes a metric shit-ton of dough.

Sounds complicated, but it's really not. Just a bit time consuming. Worth it though.

My Mom made these! They were delicious. What she called them was "Beer Rocks". No alcohol was ever served in our home and it seemed strange to me that we'd have something with beer in it. My Mom died four years ago, I'm going to make them and remember her.

Thanks for posting the recipe.

Dipped in mustard please.

There is a fast food chain called Runza which also makes these.

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Originally posted by ffips:
Dipped in mustard please.

Thanks for the suggestion! A little dijon zinged them up just right.

Next time I may slip a little swiss cheese in there as well. I've got about 50 of them to eat first though.

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Originally posted by ffips:
There is a fast food chain called Runza which also makes these.

Yep. These "Eastern European Hot Pockets" go by several different names, including Bierocks, Pierogis, Runzas, and Boreks.

I must humbly disagree with the pierogi reference.

Different dough, and pierogies are are boiled and/or fried vs. baked.

They are also much more of a pain in the ass to make.

Good stuff stuffed into dough though...yeah.

quote:

Originally posted by ffips:
Dipped in mustard please.

There is a fast food chain called Runza which also makes these.

Runza!!! The state sandwich of Nebraska!!! And damn good too!!!

German mini calzone.