HELP! cooking from frozen!

Deedee73

I've just come in from a day out, menu plan for this evening is Chicken curry and pilau rice, chicken curry is in the freezer from last week. DOH, should have checked menu plan before I went out!

Can I cook it from frozen?

**purpleprincess**

Yup!!! I do this regularly! Just make sure cooked through and piping hot.

tiff

If it was already cooked when you put it in the freezer then I would get it out and defrost in the microwave. Then heat it up on hob or continue in microwave.

Deedee73

Thanks both, I think i'll just pop in oven and cook through, ah la purpleprincess, I don't mind if I get the runs tomorrow! LOL

Pink.

:rotfl: You won't get the runs, I forget to lift stuff out of the freezer all the time and it's fine! As purpleprincess says, just make sure it is hot the whole way through!

Pink

comping_cat

For a couple of years, i used to buy Tescos bbq or chinese chicken pieces, and always cooked them from frozen. Then one day i checked the packet and it said defrost for at least 8 hours before cooking!!!! Oops!!!! We were always fine, i supose because i always made sure they were well cooked all the way through.
Being OS, i now make my own chinese sauce for the chicken!!!!

ellas9602

Hello

I forgot to take tonights tea out of the freezer before I left for work this morn. It was supposed to be chicken mushroom pie and Quorn chicken and mushroom pie. Can I cook them from frozen like I would with a shop-bought pie?

Thankyou!

Jayar

yes, you can. Just do it for longer at a slightly lower temp e.g. 180 instead of 200

ellas9602

Thought so..... Thanks Jayar :beer:

RunningRach

Can anyone help? I'm looking for advice on producing a HM alternative to those Birds Eye frozen chicken fillets that come in boxes of 2 or 4 and have different flavours of coatings on them (crispy, honey & mustard, lemon pepper, etc).

I'm looking into the possibility of making something similar myself from chicken breasts but was wondering if it is possible to cook a chicken breast in the oven safely from frozen? There are a couple of nights in the week when it is manic in our house of an evening (in, changed, eat, out within the hour) so we tend to have an 'oven food' meal on those nights and the Birds Eye ones are ideal as they are straight in to cook from the freezer.

Has anyone tried this yet or had any other bright ideas for super-fast-don't-need-to-stand-by-the-cooker dinners?

Thanks

queenpig

I have cooked chicken breast, thinghs, legs ect from frozen.
I have never cooked a whole chicken frozen though but would recomend it either not that you're askinh about whole chickens but thought I'd add that bit in lol.
Asfor making them into something i havent really any ideas, have you got any spices you could sprinkle on them leave them to stand for a bin then cook them?