Batch cooking spaghetti Bolognese for freezing. Can I freeze pasta with it?

[Chocolateandabook2019]

The bolognese and pasta has been cooked separately, but then I had a thought....do I freeze the pasta with the bolognese so it’s a complete meal when I need to use it? Or make and cool the pasta and add to the bolognese after defrosting it?
MTIA 💐

I do this all the time, I sometimes add a bit of extra purée or a wee bit stock if reheating on the stove but if I'm at work I just stick it in the microwave with the lid on (I use a container with the wee hole to release steam). Anything to make life easier!

I don't because I find the pasta goes really soggy when it's reheated. It only takes ten minutes to cook pasta anyway so can be done when you're reheating the bolognese.

You can cook pasta in the time it takes to heat the sauce and it’s so much nicer. Don’t waste freezer room with pasta!

Sorry, my fault I should have mentioned, it’s for taking to work and pinging in a microwave for lunch.
I won’t have ten minutes spare to cook the pasta there, but I could cook the pasta the night before and add it in the morning, perhaps? I haven’t even got ten minutes spare in the morning lol 😆.

I find mixing the pasta in with the sauce stops it going gloopy.

Agree that pasta cooked fresh is still nicer but seemed silly to cook 5 pieces of pasta for DS!

I freeze portions of pasta complete with veggie Bolognese sauce and veggie parmesan type cheese. It's fine - I take it to work too.

@StepMug, did you mean you found mixing the pasta in the sauce stops the pasta going gloopy or the sauce? Daft question.
I was thinking along those lines of mixing the pasta and sauce so the pasta is coated in the sauce?

I mix them together too, didn't make that clear sorry! For the microwave at work it's fine.

Pasta which has been frozen is never going to be as nice as fresh cooked but it's OK. As others have said mix it in with the sauce before freezing and I find a reasonably robust pasta like penne tubes or rigatoni stands up to the process better than spaghetti....

I think it would taste better if you cooked the pasta the night before rather than freezing it together.

@maxelly, it’s penne that I’m using rather than spaghetti, so it should be fine then. I just call it spag Bol whatever pasta I make it with 😄.
Let’s see how it goes....

I do it with leftovers, chuck it in the tub together and DH takes it to work when he wants. Not had a complaint yet so assume it reheats ok!

It's absolutely fine, had it today for my lunch at work. So easy to chuck the whole lot in the microwave.

I have frozen penne bolognese for work. It's absolutely fine. Tastes good to me. I give it a little stir all together then extra bolognese on the top.

Thanks all 🙂.

Well, that’s three frozen penne (rather than spaghetti as in the thread title) bologneses in the freezer.

All the penne is mixed in with the sauce, so let’s see how it goes .🍝

It will be totally ‘fine’. Not amazing, but totally fine. I used to do this for work lunches or emergency dinners.

Yup, mix it up & freeze. Agree spaghetti not as good as something chunkier!

I often find I have 3 or more individual portions of pasta + sauce knocking around in the freezer, at which point I defrost them all, tip into a pyrex dish, top with bechamel, left over grated cheese & breadcrumbs & shove into the oven for a midweek pasta bake.

Not exactly haute cuisine but useful easy dinner, with salad.