Batch cooking ideas please

Allegra

llh189 wrote: »

I have taken to batch cooking to save money and time, I have so far made cottage pie, lasagne, chicken stew and beef stew and now I am stumped for ideas.

What do you do?

I am looking for cheap ideas, six or so medium portions per each batch.

Any ideas - thanks!

Lisa

bolognese
chili
fish pie
tarka dal
chickpea curry - in fact, whenever I make any curry, I cook double at least
saag aloo
saag chana dhal
soup
pies

Plus a big batch of naan breads or chappatis, to eat with all those curries !

esmf73

How about batch making some puddings for speed, economy and to fill up the last bit of space in those tummies?

Fruit pie / crumble
Sponge cake / treacle pudding etc

All great fillers and lovely to eat when its cold and horrid outside

silverchair

I definitely recommend soup. Cheap & freezes nicely!
meatballs
curry
I've frozen lots of Gorden Ramsey's hot chocolate fondant (very easy to make).

wogglemaker

Soup of all varieties - my latest was ham & split pea, The gammon hock did 4 meals with cauli cheese - two rounds of sarnies today and the last bit for the soup. Not bad for a £1.50 joint.

Today there's 9 chicken pies with gravy gone into the freezer for DD and 9 minced beef in gravy for DS.

I also make double cheese sauce and freeze the left overs

exlibris

If you want to go into pastry, I used to make quiche. Blind bake the pastry case and the fill and freeze the flan raw. When needed, it can be taken out and cooked from frozen, as I remember for about half-hour.

Butterfly_Brain

I batch cook stews, bolognaise, lasagne, chilli, curry, soup, chicken pie, meat and potato pie, tuna fishcakes, fishpie, I also make meatballs, kofta kebabs and burgers and freeze them too.

ubamother

I batch cook parts of dishes as well as full dishes - so I have plenty of portions of tomato-based sauce, cheese sauce, as well as prepped veg portions - par-boiled and par-roasted winter veg to pop in the oven from frozen, potato/swede/carrot mash (some separately, some mashed together), cooked, stuffed baked potatoes. I find having the side dishes to a main course very helpful for days when I'm shattered and while grilling a couple of chops is OK, peeling, chopping and cooking veg is just beyond me!

EssexSaver_2

Great thread everyone!

I've recently been doing some batch cooking from "Economy Gastronomy" book - i did the braised mince at the weekend for cottage pie, spag bol and chilli con carne. As there is only 2 of us i made 6 meals.

Ubamother - can i ask how you batch cook your baked potatoes?

Penelope_Penguin

llh189 wrote: »

What do you do?

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to give you more ideas

Penny. x

kacie

Can you freeze pizza with the toppings on, if so how do you freeze it?