Ground Beef Freezer Meals // FreezerMeals101

 Pizza Sliders

Servings: 6
Calories: 672 kcal
Ingredients
  • 12 pack buns that are attached dinner rolls or Hawaiian rolls
  • 2 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese divided into 1 cup and 1 1/2 cup
  • 3/4 cup pizza sauce
  • 10-20 slices deli pepperoni enough to cover the buns
  • 1/4 cup butter melted
  • 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
Instructions
Assembly Instructions:
  1. Spray a 9x13 foil baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  2. Keeping the buns connected, cut the entire loaf in half horizontally to create top and bottom buns. Remove the top set of buns and set them aside.
  3. Sprinkle 1 cup of the shredded mozzarella cheese evenly over the top of the bottom buns, then spread the pizza sauce over the top of the cheese.

  4. Layer the pepperoni slices over the top of the sauce, and sprinkle the remaining shredded cheese over top of the pepperoni.

  5. Carefully place the top set of buns on top of the sandwich filling ingredients. Using a pastry brush, brush the melted butter over the top of the buns and sprinkle the grated parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning over the melted butter.

  6. Cover the pan with foil and place it in the freezer.

Cooking instructions:

  1. Thaw.

  2. Preheat the oven to 350°.

  3. Place the covered pan in the oven to bake for 25 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the buns are toasted. If you want to have crispier buns, uncover the buns for the last five minutes.

  4. Slice the rows to form individual sliders and serve while warm.


Ground Beef Stroganoff Freezer Meal

As with most freezer meals, it's just as quick and easy once you've browned the beef and chopped the onions for this to make four of these recipes at once than it is to make one. When you open your freezer and see four meals made, you will feel so accomplished and glad that you quadrupled this recipe!

Course: Main Course
Keyword: beef, stroganoff
Servings: 6
Calories: 255 kcal
Ingredients
  • 1 lb. ground beef browned
  • 1/2 cup onion chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 3/4 cup mushrooms sliced
  • 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 10 oz. can cream of mushroom soup
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 tsp. parsley
  • dash pepper
Instructions

  1. To assemble this meal, add the ground beef to a large resealable bag.

  2. Add all the other ingredients to the bag and squish them around to combine.

  3. Remove excess air and seal.
  4. Lay flat and freeze.

  5. On the day of cooking, thaw and then cook in the slow cooker on low for 2-5 hours. If you prefer, you can instead heat the beef stroganoff in a skillet on medium until heated through.

  6. Before serving, stir in another 1/4-1/2 cup of sour cream. This adds a bit of zip and freshness and livens the recipe up.

Recipe Notes

I want to mention something about the mushrooms in this recipe. You can substitute a can of mushrooms for the fresh mushrooms, particularly if you're making this as a freezer meal, but please don't. Fresh mushrooms taste so much better in this recipe than canned does. Trust me on this!

Whenever I make this, I cook up a package of egg noodles and stir the stroganoff through the drained noodles. If I'm heating this in a skillet on the stovetop, I add the noodles into the skillet towards the end of cooking the mixture.

If I'm making this in the Crock-Pot, I stir the cooked egg noodles right into the Crock-Pot towards the end of the Beef Stroganoff cooking time.



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