Best Freezer Meatloaf and Meatballs
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 by The Cooking Guy Subscribe To Our Feed
For those of you who are super busy and don’t have time to make dinner each night, than freezer cooking is for you. It is a great way to get a delicious, nutritious and fast meal on the table. I have a wonderful, tasty and easy recipe for Meatloaf and Meatballs that will have your family asking for more.
These two recipes are great freeze-ahead meals. They require the same ingredients, so you can make two meals in one.
Here is what you will need to get started.
Meatloaf
Ingredients:
- 1 lb hamburger
- 1 package onion soup mix
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp of Worcestershire sauce
- 1-2 tablespoons of ketchup
- ½ cup of oatmeal or crushed saltine crackers
Steps:
Mix all the ingredients together and mash into desired shape. For the Meatloaf, you could make it into a really large doughnut with a hole in the middle. Because you can cook from the frozen state, the hole in the middle helps it cook evenly. Or you could shape it into the traditional loaf shape. Then freeze in a gallon sized plastic bag. Always make sure you use freezer bags when freezing meals. Generic or other plastic baggies will not keep the food as fresh.
When you are ready to prepare your meatloaf, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Put it in a large pie pan or square pan; this allows the grease to drain away as it is cooking or if you are using a loaf shape, put it in a loaf tin. Cook for one hour if thawed and about one hour and ten minutes if frozen. After it is done cooking, simply lift it up out of the pan, slice and serve.
Meatballs
If you are making meatballs, shape the balls with a Meat Baller and bake. Bake on 350 degrees for about 35-40 minutes or until the middle is no longer pink. Let cool and freeze the cooked meatballs. Again, freeze in freezer plastic bags. When you want to serve them they just need to be heated up.
Meal Suggestions:
Here are some suggestions on how to use your Meatballs.
- Brown gravy over rice or mashed potatoes. This makes a super quick and easy dinner.
- As a stew with a packet of stew seasonings and some potatoes and carrots.
- Rolled in Barbeque Sauce is also delicious.
- Thaw your meatballs and place in slow cooker with a small jar of grape jelly and I bottle of ketchup and let simmer for a few hours.
- Spaghetti and Meatballs
- Sweet and Sour sauce over rice
- Or any way that you already use Meatballs
Obviously, this recipe is for one meal. Double or triple if you want to freeze additional servings for later use.
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