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How to freeze lasagne - cooked or uncooked (pasta that is)

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99redballoons · 09/04/2006 12:57

Hi, I've made up my meat sauce and white sauce ready to put the lasagne together etc. but I want to freeze this batch ready to eat another day. Now do I put it all together and freeze it uncooked, ie. that the pasta layer is uncooked as I've already cooked the other sauces, or do I cook it in the oven, cool and then freeze, so it's sort of like a case of reheating the whole lot for 45mins when I take it out from the freezer?

Seems such a silly question, but I really have not idea! TIA :)

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SaintGeorge · 09/04/2006 13:00

I would make it and freeze as an entire dish.

Make sure your dish is freezer to oven proof though.

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99redballoons · 09/04/2006 13:02

so just layer it up in the right dish and freeze? then the pasta will cook on the night I take it out..?

[Sorry, really feeling dim today!]

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zippitippitoes · 09/04/2006 13:04

I would cook the pasta and add to the dish and then freeze without putting in the oven

but then I alwys cook the pasta before adding anyway

SaintGeorge · 09/04/2006 13:05

That's how I do it.

Sometimes I make up individual ones in those little foil trays. Handy if DH is late home - whip one out of the freezer, stick in the oven and ignore for half an hour

SaintGeorge · 09/04/2006 13:06

x posted with zippi.

I dont pre-cook the pasta, just layer with the sauces then freeze.

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99redballoons · 09/04/2006 13:13

Great! Thanks for the suggestions. I have the foil trays all ready. :) Will give it a go without precooking the pasta sheets and see what happens!

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lazycow · 10/04/2006 11:53

This does also work if you cook it on the day and then have some left over which you can cool and freeze. We often make lasagne for us to eat and freeze a couple of small portions for ds to eat on other days and it seems to work fine.

hulababy · 10/04/2006 11:55

I have never frozen it uncooked. Might try that sometime. It is noramlly part portions I freeze, when we have some left over.

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99redballoons · 10/04/2006 14:35

thanks!

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sweetmonkey · 19/04/2006 14:12

when you want to use it from frozen how long would you put it in oven for and what gas mark?

am making lasagne tonight and from this thread am unsure whether to cook it all then freeze portions or do my own little one for dinner and do the rest in the silver trays with uncooked pasta sheets and then freeze

any suggestions please?

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