8 Freezer Bag Meals for the Slow Cooker

They’re again by common demand! Our first spherical of 12 slow cooker freezer recipes has been one Hello Glow’s hottest posts, nicely, ever. Since that was greater than a 12 months in the past, we thought it was time to create a couple of extra recipes. I requested the significantly improbable chef Laura Wallace of Nashville-based Mirepoix to assist us out.

My sluggish cooker has been getting a severe exercise testing these tasty meals. I’m at all times a bit amazed at how simple this makes dinner. Like, why don’t I do that each evening?? My pretty photographer, Susan Hudson, is due together with her first child in May, and he or she’s planning a stock-the-freezer session. Better but, why not host a child bathe/freezer bag get together and have your folks make them for you? Wouldn’t that be an superior child reward?

5 Vegetarian Slow Cooker Freezer Meals

First up, a couple of meat-free freezer meals. My sister is vegetarian, and he or she works loopy hours. So these concepts are impressed by her. 🙂

1. Minestrone with Farro

• 12 ozbag frozen inexperienced beans
• 15 ozcan cannellini beans (drained & rinsed)
• 28 ozcan crushed tomatoes
• 10-12 ozbag frozen spinach
• 1 cup farro
• 1 pkt. Italian seasoning
• 1/4 cup carrot, diced
• 1/4 cup onion, diced
• 1 tsp garlic, minced
• 1-32 ozcarton vegetable inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Combine all components besides for the vegetable inventory and place in a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low. Enjoy with salad or recent Italian baguette.

2. Southwestern 3 Bean Chili

• 15 ozcan black beans (drained & rinsed)
• 15 ozcan pinto beans (drained & rinsed)
• 15 ozcan kidney beans (drained & rinsed)
• 1 pkt Fiesta Ranch Seasoning
• 10 ozcan Rotel tomatoes
• half cup onions, diced
• half cup peppers, diced
• 10 ozcan inexperienced chile enchilada sauce
• 15 ozcan corn (drained)
• 1 tbsp. chili powder
• 1 tsp cumin
• 2 cups vegetable inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Combine all components besides for the vegetable inventory and place in a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low. Enjoy with corn muffins, tortilla chips, or couscous.

3. Curried Butternut Squash and Chickpea Stew

• 24 oz Cubed Butternut Squash
• half cup onion, diced
• 15 ozcan chickpeas (drained & rinsed)
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 1 tsp ginger
• half cup peppers, diced
• 12 ozcan coconut milk
• 1 tsp garlic, minced
• 2 cups vegetable inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Combine all components besides for the vegetable inventory and place in a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low. Enjoy with Basmati rice, quinoa, or couscous.

4. Kale, White Beans, & Lentils

• Three cups of kale chopped
• 15 ozcan white beans (drained & rinsed)
• 1 cup purple lentils
• half cup onion, diced
• 1 cup carrots, diced
• 1 cup celery, diced
• 2 tsp. basil
• 1 tsp. sage
• 1 tsp. garlic, minced
• 1-32ozcarton vegetable inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Combine all components besides for the vegetable inventory and place in a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low.

5. Greek Stuffed Peppers

• Four massive bell peppers (tops minimize off and seeds eliminated)
• half cup Kalamata olives
• 1 tbsp capers
• 10 ozbag frozen spinach
• 1/4 cup pesto
• 1/4 cup sundried tomatoes
• half cup pearled barley
• Three ozcream cheese
• 15 oztomato sauce
• 2 cups vegetable inventory

Combine the olives, capers, spinach, pesto, tomatoes, barley, & cream cheese in a mixing bowl. Stuff the combination into every of the bell peppers and place the peppers in a gallon-size freezer bag. Pour the tomato sauce and vegetable inventory into the crockpot earlier than inserting the peppers inside to cook dinner.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low.

3 Slow Cooker Freezer Meals with Meat  6. Sweet and Sour Meatballs

• 1-20 ozpackage of frozen meatballs
• half cup sliced onions
• half cup sliced peppers
• 10 ozsweet and bitter sauce
• 12 ozgrape jelly
• 1 cup of water or inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Place all components besides for water or inventory right into a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 4-6 on low. Add 1 cup of water or inventory at the starting of the cook dinner time. Enjoy with rice noodles or grain of alternative.

7. Chicken Tortilla Soup

• 2-Three hen thighs (boneless & skinless)
• 10 ozbag of frozen corn
• 1 can of black beans (drained & rinsed)
• 1 can of Rotel
• half cup of diced peppers
• 3/Four cup of diced onion
• 1 taco seasoning packet
• 1 ranch dip packet
• 1-32 ozcarton hen inventory
• Salt and pepper to style

Combine all components besides for the hen inventory and place in a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 3-Four hours on excessive or 5-6 on low. Shred hen when cook dinner time is full and return to the pot. Enjoy with tortilla strips, rice or grain of alternative.

8. Beef Bourgnignon

• 1 pound chuck roast cubed
• Four ozpancetta cubed
• half cup celery diced
• half cup carrots
• 10 pearl onions
• 1 cup Burgundy wine
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• half tsp sage
• 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
• 1-32 ozcarton beef inventory

Place all components besides for the beef inventory right into a gallon-size freezer bag.

Cook: 6-8 hours on Low. Add the beef inventory at the starting of the cook dinner time. Enjoy with roasted potatoes, mashed candy potatoes or pureed parsnips.

Yes, all you need to do is mix the components and pop the baggage into the freezer. When you’re able to cook dinner, dump the contents of the bag plus any crucial water/inventory into the sluggish cooker and also you’re able to go!

Want extra? Check out the unique 12 slow cooker recipes in addition to these 25 freeze and dump ideas!

Recipes by Laura Wallace, Photos by Susan Hudson

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