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Ideas for meals to cook ahead and freeze?

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ComtessedeFrouFrou · 01/06/2013 16:22

I'm planning to run the contents of the freezer down and get batch cooking. Any ideas of meals to cook that will freeze well? So far I've got mince pretty well covered and the following:

Moroccan chicken
Chilli
Lamb curry
Spaghetti Bolognese
Cottage pie
Fish pie
Lasagne
Fish cakes

Any more bright ideas?

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lozster · 02/06/2013 22:51

Is risotto ok to freeze? What type - with cream or creme fraiche and other ingredients?

ComtessedeFrouFrou · 03/06/2013 14:52

I'm willing to be proved wrong, but I would worry about risotto, paella etc being very dry if you were to freeze them?

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mrspaddy · 03/06/2013 17:37

I have a lovely old (1977) Marks and Spencer Cookbook by Mary Berry - Cooking for your freezer. I just dug it out there (only cost 3 pound in a secondhand bookshop I love).

Here is a Beef Oxford Recipe I found:
2Ib stewing steak
1 I/2 oz flour
8 oz onions - sliced
2 cloves crushed garlic
4 oz mushrooms - sliced
2 tablespoons apricot jam
half pint red wine
half pint beef stock

Put meat into bag with flour and toss until well coated.
Fry meat quickly in a pan to brown.
Add remaining ingredients including the rest of the flour.
Bring to the boil - cover and simmer for 2 and a half hours stirring occasionally.

mrspaddy · 03/06/2013 17:38

Sorry forgot to add a sliced green pepper.

mrspaddy · 03/06/2013 17:49

Chicken Paprika

A 3 and half pound chicken
half pint cider
1 oz butter
one onion chopped
3 teaspoons paprika
1 oz flour
I pound tomatoes skinned and deseeded
I clove garlic
I bay leaf

Put the chicken in small roasting tin add cider and season.
Cover with a lid for one and a half hours
Lift chicken out to cool, strain out stock and skim fat.

Melt butter in pan and onions until soft, add paprika and cook for 3 mins add flour and stir in chicken stock with tomatoes, garlic and bay leaf.

To freeze: Carve, lay out into a rigid container and pour over sauce. Cover and freeze

NonnoMum · 03/06/2013 18:46

Bumping for fab recipes. Thank you...

crikeybadger · 19/06/2013 21:10

Cometesse -just tried the pasta bake ....delicious. Did a veggie version without the ham and it was yum. Do you freeze it?

I'm going to make a lentil ragu and a black bean chili to go in my freezer once I've got some space. Recipes are on bbcgoodfood website.

DreamingOfTheMaldives · 19/06/2013 22:53

Marking my place too. I'm almost 30 weeks and don't currently have a kitchen as having building work done but once I do I will get batch cooking and will use some of the suggestions on here.

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