I have my mom here and she is making stuff and packing it away…
We did samosas, egg rolls, chicken spring rolls
taco meat - that i can unfreeze later and eat
keema
we’re trying to think of other ideas for foods that we can cook then freeze away. Anyone got any other ideas? Not everything stays good frozen, so that’s why I ask. Not sure what salans are freeze-able.
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chicken kebab , chote smose (smosia) of vegetable/chicken etc
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shami kababs, koftay (meat balls), i freeze a lot of mint & dhanniya for chutney too so I can just mix it with yoghurt and make a raita/chutney out of it when needed with samosays, pakorays, kababs etc.
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All kinds of kebab like seekh kebab, gola kebab,malai boti, shami kebab, potato/chicken/beef cutlets
as for salans/gravies pasandy stays good. tomato and yogurt based gravies tend to stay good when frozen but cream based ones don’t.
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Bhallay, and when you want to eat them all you need to do is put them in hot water for 15 minutes. Then add the regular yoghurt,…
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i froze potato cutlets and when i went to cook them they fell apart:bummer: any ideas of where i went wrong?
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Did you coat them with egg and crumbs before freezing? if not, thats where you went wrong! 
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First time when I was leaving my hubby and going back on vacations, I froze a lot of food and it was too enough for him to fed himself for entire 3 months.
Haleem, korma, Biryani Masala only (so that he could boil the rice and final it), Koftay balls, so that he could prepare the salan (which is quite easy) and put koftay in it… I cooked Chapli kebab.
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no i did not!! next time eh
Can you tell me more on this? Do you cook the biryani and salams thoroughly and then just freeze? I need help…
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I did it many times.
Qeema without Aloo (Aloo changes taste when kept frozen for longer time). Aloo can be added after it is defrosted.
Seekh kabab, Shami kabab, chapli or kachay qeemay kay kabab.
Haleem
Boneless chicken … Chicken with bones changes tastes rather quickly if not remains frozen for more than a month.
Fried Kareela (Can be added to qeema on stove and it will be ready in minutes as both are cooked)
Channa (shoorba or chikkir chola both)
Any kind of daal.
karahi again boneless ( I do it without yogurt because my husband get upset tummy when he eats any frozen food that had yogurt )
kofta ( Not a fan of koftas though)
I also have frozen Prepared masala for later use i.e, to quickly prepare some curry or veg dish (Onion, garlic ginger and tomato bhonafied)
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How much of did he actually eat
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Well, I just cooked the biryani masala like, ready to be layered one!! So he just had to microwave the masala and boil some rice and layer them and dum it and wohoo…its ready. In salans, I cooked it entirely, packed it boxes (maybe four botiyan in each pack so that he can eat it at two times) and he would add any vegetable he wanted to eat like he would cut two potatoes and add in the salan, or he would add some okra and add in the salan… like that. Haleem & Qorma, it was just ALL done, so he would eat it with ready-made sheermaal or naans.
he justified. Couldn’t finish all, but still, Justified..!
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My mom will freeze kababs and salans like haleem, nihari, paaye, etc. She has frozen gajar ka halwa as well.
Pcg, do you like kulfi? If so, get a bunch of mini-sized cups. Get the kulfi mix packets from ur local desi store. Make the kulfi mixture according to package instructions. Pour the mixture into as many as cups as you can. Set them in the freezer and when they’ve become firm…insert a popsicle stick into each cup. And they can just stay in the freezer. My mom has made these for dawats, but they would be a nice cooling treat for Ramzan as well. You just place the cups under warm tap water for a few minutes…and the kulfi will slide out easily. That’s another idea you both can have fun trying out if you want to premake/store a desi dessert.