hi everyone,
I am gonna be visiting pak for atleast 2 and half months (or even for a bit more timedepending on personal situation), and would like to cook and freeze a nice variety of salans/curries for my husband before i go… the problem is except for a short list of different salans, i am running out of new ideas… I really need to freeze a lot of food, because he does not like to eat outside at all, not even for a day (the problem is that the area we live in, in the US, doesn’t have any good convenient options for halal food for him plus he really does like home cooked food much better no matter what). it would be nice to give him some variety too.
so My question is, would you girls/guys like to give me a few ideas … few salan/dishes names etc, that in your expereince freeze well and dont get soggy or runied when defrosted/heated. if you have been in a situation like mine before, what were some of the dishes that you cooked and froze???
if you haven’t been in the same situation, have your, mom, sister, relative been? any suggestions from them? did your mom ever freeze some cooked stuff for you (for college or before a trip etc.)that was still yummy and intact when you heated it up?
so far i have come up with the following salaans
qeema mattar,
ghosht qorma
chicken palak
gobhi gosht
haleeem
that’s pretty much it
which vegetable salaans freeze well? forexample will a vegetable bhujia with potatoes and carrots in it,freeze well? because i dont know how well cooked potatoes and cooked carrots do when frozen.
also new ideas for meat (chicken, goat, lamb etc) related dishes would really help too, coz my husband is pretty much a carnivore, and only eats vegetables once in a while when he really has to.
will be waiting for your replies,
thanks in advance
would also be just interesting to hear how many of you have been in the same situation as me, and what kind of stuff did you cook.