Freezing Stuffed Peppers?

[Jim Means]

I always stuff them and cook them
Make plenty of extra sauce
Eat a meal from them and freeze the rest in cartons or freezer bags
Make sure you completely cover the peppers with the extra sauce.
I've kept them like that for over a year and they're still great.
What's a stuffed pepper without a little extra sauce for the mashed
potatoes, anyway.
BIG TIP -
Substitue Matzo Meal for rice or breadcrumbs in your meat mixture
-It soaks up extra juice, avoiding the watery stuff inside the pepper
-It makes the meat mixture really tender and tasty.

Johnson <john...@qnet.com> wrote in message
news:380a0...@news.qnet.com...
> I'm looking for the best way to freeze stuffed peppers. Should I:
> Cook the hamburger filling first, stuff the pepper, and freeze it?
> Stuff the pepper with uncooked filling and freeze it? If so, should it be
> thawed before cooking or put in the oven still frozen?
> I tried doing a search at dejanews for this, but didn't come up with
> anything definitive.
> TIA,
> Cyndi Johnson
>
>

[Blanche Nonken]

"Jim Means" <jrm...@acrusa.com> wrote:

> BIG TIP -
> Substitue Matzo Meal for rice or breadcrumbs in your meat mixture
> -It soaks up extra juice, avoiding the watery stuff inside the pepper
> -It makes the meat mixture really tender and tasty.

I second this. It lends itself better, IMO, to ground beef. The
finished meat mixture is less sticky, and when cooked is juicier and
less dense.

Note: Matzah or Matzoh or Matza (different spelling, same thing) Meal is
a wheat-based product, and those who can't have wheat should avoid it.