Cooking for the Freezer..

Penelope_Penguin

pupsicola wrote: »

Would really appreciate any other ideas and recipes using mince or other meat like chicken, lamb etc etc

I like to bulk cook several portions of chilli, bolognaise, shepherd's pie filling, fruit pie (cut into slices), fruit crumble cake (frozen in individual portions), stock, soup, tomato passata

There's lots more ideas for you in this thread; I'll merge this later.

RealButter

Curry is great to bulk cook and freeze, either a base sauce or the whole curry.

I can do a turkey thigh joint in the slow cooker and get 6 portions from that, eat 2 and freeze the rest.

Lasagne, chilli, mince/onion/gravy, bolognaise, most mince dishes freeze well.

lindsaygalaxy

Evening,

I am very shortly returning to work full time and with 2 young children need to get organised. Any suggestions for recipes or meals please

Pink.

Hi Lindsay,

These threads should help:

Batch cooking ideas please

Cooking for the Freezer..

I'll add your thread to one of those later.

Pink

kochi1

How about Kheema matar - nice and warming on a winter evening..
30g ghee or 2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp cumin seeds
1 large onion finely chopped
1 tbsp garlic n ginger paste
2 bay leaves
1 tsp curry powder (up to you hot/medium/mild)
2 tomatoes cored deseeded and chopped
1 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp ground tumeric
pinch of sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground pepper
500g lean mince beef or lamb
250g frozen peas straight from freezer

Heat ghee/oil in pan, add cumin seeds and fry stiring for 30 seconds or until they start to crackle
Stir in the onion, garlic & ginger paste, bay leaves and curry powder and continue to sir fry until the fats evaporate
Stir in the tomatoes and fry for 1-2 min, stiir in the coriander, chilli powder, tumeric, sugar, salt and pepper and stir around for 30 seconds
Add the mince and fry for 5 minutes, using a wooden spoon to break up the meat until its no longer pink. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring occassionaly.
Add the peas and continue simmering for 10-15 minutes until the peas are thawed and hot. IF there is too much liquid left in the pan increase the heat and let it bubble for a few minutes until it reduces.
Then enjoy!!!

wyebird

Chicken curry, chicken pie, chicken casserole,chicken crumble..............

slbhill

I bought a bag of cheap cooking apples a couple of weeks ago and just rediscovered them in the back of a drawer - oops They need cooking soon (they've started developing brown squishy spots here and there) but for various reasons I don't want to eat them in the next week.

Can anyone recommend how I can freeze them? I thought I could stew some and freeze the stewed apple to have with crumble topping some time - we used to have loads and loads of stewed apple in the freezer when i was a kid so I know that works! I imagine I could make the crumble as well and freeze that too if I have time?

But there is only so much stewed apple that I like! Is there any kind of apple sponge recipe that I could make up and freeze, then cook from frozen?

cakemaker

Don't know if anyone is interested, but I've just spent a day preparing foods for the freezer.

I have made:

2 turkey meat loaves (1 is for tea tonight)
Garlic & herb dump chicken
Sweet & sour dump chicken
meatballs in tomato sauce (Nigella)
marinated pork chops (to thaw & cook)
Quiche Lorriane
2 bags of shaped cookies to bake from frozen
marinated chicken legs
3 tubs of tomato sauce for pasta

now enjoying a cup of tea & a hot cross bun I found in the freezer . .

quintwins

cakemaker wrote: »

Don't know if anyone is interested, but I've just spent a day preparing foods for the freezer.

I have made:

2 turkey meat loaves (1 is for tea tonight)
Garlic & herb dump chicken
Sweet & sour dump chicken
meatballs in tomato sauce (Nigella)
marinated pork chops (to thaw & cook)
Quiche Lorriane
2 bags of shaped cookies to bake from frozen
marinated chicken legs
3 tubs of tomato sauce for pasta

now enjoying a cup of tea & a hot cross bun I found in the freezer . .

whats
Garlic & herb dump chicken
Sweet & sour dump chicken?

i tend to live out of my freezer anyway, i'm lucky to be a sahm so i don't really need to batch cook too much

Winged_one

When (if) I ever get my smallholding, I WILL be getting an aga and a chest freezer. Then I can do proper batch cooking.