Freezer Meal Recipes for Lively Households
It offers the recipes talked about in my weblog:
The right way to Spend Much less Time within the Kitchen with an Lively Household.
Every of the recipes under are a success with my household and I’ve discovered them to be tremendous versatile, in addition to straightforward to make. Relying on how a lot meat I’ve available, I’ll double and even triple the recipe! For instance, I not too long ago made the barbacoa and pulled pork recipes and tripled them as a result of I had sufficient meat to take action. This can save me a lot time within the kitchen for future meals!
I put some within the fridge for that week (dinner and lunches) and the remainder goes into smaller freezer luggage within the freezer for future meals. I used to make the error of placing ALL the meat in a single large bag after which I had the issue of getting to eat all that meat in every week or toss it. I actually didn’t wish to toss it and my household was so sick of it by the tip of the week that they by no means needed to see it once more! So do your self a favor and get quart sized luggage or higher but, a Meals Saver machine!
Shredded Hen
That is the simplest and most versatile of the recipes right here. You’ll be able to actually use this instead of rooster in nearly any recipe you eat. My daughter really eats this simply as a snack or as her protein for a meal. No want to purchase rotisserie chickens when you might have your individual shredded rooster at dwelling!
Components:
- 3 rooster breasts
- Salt & pepper to style
- 1 c. broth or use my do-it-yourself bone broth recipe (hyperlink)
Instructions:
You may make this in a Dutch oven, sluggish cooker or instantaneous pot relying on what you might have out there.
Dutch Oven: Preheat oven to 350 levels. Put all elements in Dutch oven and canopy with lid. Bake in oven for 45 minutes. Shred when carried out.
Gradual Cooker: Put all elements in sluggish cooker and activate excessive for 4 hours or low for 8 hours. Shred when carried out.
Instantaneous Pot: Put all elements in sluggish cooker and switch to excessive for 10 minutes and pure launch for five minutes. Be certain that your instantaneous pot is about to “seal” earlier than beginning to prepare dinner!
What you may make with this:
- Placed on pizza
- Quinoa salad with rooster on prime
- Placed on a salad
- Stuff in a baked potato w/broccoli & cheese
- Put in soups
- Hen broccoli quinoa bake (see recipe here)
- Something you’d use rooster in…the chances are infinite!
Salsa Verde Hen
Components:
- 3 rooster breasts
- Salt & pepper to style
- 16 oz store-bought salsa verde
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cumin
Instructions:
You may make this in a Dutch oven, sluggish cooker or instantaneous pot relying on what you might have out there.
Dutch Oven: Preheat oven to 350 levels. Put all elements in Dutch oven and canopy with lid. Bake in oven for 45 minutes. Shred when carried out.
Gradual Cooker: Put all elements in sluggish cooker and activate excessive for 2-3 hours or low for 4-6 hours. Shred when carried out.
Instantaneous Pot: Put all elements in sluggish cooker and switch to excessive for 10 minutes and pure launch for five minutes. Be certain that your instantaneous pot is about to “seal” earlier than beginning to prepare dinner!
What you may make with this:
- Eat a small bowl of it as your protein for that meal (my favourite as a result of it’s so tasty!) w/cilantro brown rice and sauteed veggies
- Put in tacos
- Make a burrito bowl w/sauteed peppers, onions, mushrooms and guac
- Nachos: prime some complete grain tortilla chips with the rooster, cilantro, bell pepper, inexperienced onions and guac.
- Taco salad
Instantaneous Pot Pulled Pork
I take advantage of this recipe for my Instantaneous Pot pulled pork. If I’ve the time, I’ll smoke the pork on our smoker utilizing a completely completely different recipe. However let’s be trustworthy, more often than not I don’t have the time to dedicate to that so I take advantage of this recipe far more! It’s fairly frankly the very best I’ve discovered and my WHOLE household loves it, which is a win-win for me!!
What you may make with this:
- Makes for a simple dinner w/canned inexperienced beans and both baked potato or instantaneous mashed potatoes
- Pulled pork sandwich on Dave’s Killer Bun and aspect salad
- Make a pulled pork bowl w/microwave brown rice, can of pinto beans, sliced avocado, inexperienced onions and chipotle in adobo sauce in case you like a bit of spice
Barbacoa
Historically you’d make barbacoa with beef however this final time I made it with venison from a deer my husband caught on the final day of the season! If you will get your fingers on some venison, I extremely suggest it. It’s an amazing lean supply of protein that’s natural! This recipe is one other WHOLE household favourite as a result of the meat is so flavorful and it’s additionally so versatile. You will get a number of meals out of this meat and nobody will know that it’s a dreaded leftover!
Components:
- 2 lbs beef or venison roast reduce into fist-sized chunks
- 1 complete onion, quartered
- 4 cloves of garlic, peeled
- ½ cup broth or use my do-it-yourself bone broth (see my recipe right here)
- 3 T. apple cider vinegar
- 1 T. lemon or lime juice (I by no means have lime available so at all times use lemon)
- 2 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp oregano
- Sprint of cloves
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- In case you like spice, add a can of chopped inexperienced chilis
Instructions:
Gradual cooker: put all elements within the sluggish cooker and prepare dinner on excessive for 4-6 hours or low for 6-8 hours. Shred meat when carried out.
Instantaneous pot: put all elements within the instantaneous pot for 60 minutes on excessive. Let it naturally launch stress when carried out for 10 minutes and fast launch the remainder. Shred meat when carried out.
What you may make with this:
- Stuff in a candy potato topped w/cilantro and inexperienced onions
- Tacos or burrito bowls
- Enchiladas (could make this forward of time and freeze)
- Mexican beef stew (see recipe here)
- Barbacoa grilled cheese and tomato soup
- Taco salad
- Nachos
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