Cooking frozen food that was cooked

I want to cook a big batch of food and store it in the freezer. Mainly these meals consist of vegetables and chicken. When I want to eat the meal I will take it out of the freezer and defrost it. The problem is sometimes I forget to do this. Can I cook these frozen meals in the oven and how do I do this? These are not store bought Frozen TV Dinners but diners I make myself.

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Best Answer

It depends on how fast you want to eat. If it's a matter of quite a bit of time, then a safe route would be to have it in an oven-safe vessel, covered with foil, and leave it on the oven at a relatively low temperature (275 to 300) for a long time (depends on serving size and type of frozen meal, 30 minutes to an hour, usually). That's the method with least effort and intervention.

This will allow the food to get hot, all the way through, but not to scorch or overcook.

If you forgot to defrost and want to eat fairly quickly, the microwave, or defrosting in the microwave, and then moving to the oven is a quicker route to eating.

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Quick Answer about "Cooking frozen food that was cooked"

Many un-prepared frozen foods, such as vegetables, meat and fish, can also be cooked straight from frozen. Usually the cooking process will require a lower temperature to defrost the food and then a higher temperature for a longer time to cook it through.

Can you reheat frozen food that has been cooked?

Leftovers that you originally bought raw and frozen (for example, fresh chicken, beef or pork that comes packaged and frozen) that you've since cooked can be refrozen to be thawed and reheated again.

Can you reheat food twice from frozen?

Freeze, Thaw, and Freeze Again If you've already frozen meat in a large batch, you can thaw it in the fridge, take out a portion for reheating, and refreeze the rest. As long as it never goes above 5 degrees, which it will not in your fridge, then this is perfectly OK \u2014 and safe \u2014 to do.

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