Freezing cooked foods

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^ :eek: Those are surely for desperate measures! I don’t like to keep anything beyond 3 - 4 weeks.

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We typically freeze kababs, samosas, tikkas, salans, haleem, etc.

No veggies or daal.

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I find rice doesnt freeze very well at all, it gets very water and weird on defrosting.

Naans, rotis and all breads freeze very very well!

I freeze all sorts of salans and its fine, potatoes freeze badly tough

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I think I’ll freeze some keema and also some chicken salan for hubby. Bro has already told my mom that he won’t eat any frozen foods. :smack:

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i'll thaw nicely if you defrost it in the fridge rather than on the Kitchen counter. try that! :)

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^Interesting. I also haven't liked defrosted rice.

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We freeze a portion every time I cook if we have a trip away coming, if hubby is going to be home alone or even now that Xmas holidays are here when we will be out shopping the sales etc(!!!)

Using the boxes with labels method or we also use those silver takeaway containers as some food stains white boxes.

Also we freeze roti's (every week without fail so I don't have to do them after work!) and just get them out last minute and put in microwave for 2 minutes and they are good as fresh!

I find that with food it is better to take out the freezer in the morning and let it thaw at room temp during the day then use either microwave or saucepans to heat.

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Stupid question but for kababs and tikkiyan, how exactly do you freeze them? if you stack them right on top of each other while still fresh....they won't stick together will they

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^^I freeze them in trays first.Once they are frozen I take them off those trays and put them in ziplocs.They never stick to each other.

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^same

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Wannabe a mum, freezing your rotis sounds like a good idea, but doesn't warming them in the microwave make them hard and dry??

I am tempted to try them now....:)

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Sara, I also add layers on the trays with plastic / non sticky cling film.

Miss Freudian, I used to freeze parathas, uncooked and cook them on the tawwa. Turned out great. Same with rotee too. But for some reason parathas turned out much better than rotee.

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I want to make things like chicken pastries and pies etc and freeze then but can puff pastry be re-frozen? You know the ready made ones u get? Or can anyone reccomend any pastries that i can make the pastries and pies with that will freeze well, abit confused lol x