What’s your go-to, make ahead recipes that are pretty easy to get a week’s worth made on a sunday? I’m looking for new recipes to try and get myself into a diet better than mcdonalds. I have access to an instant pot.
I really like this recipe. Pressure Cooker Chile Verde It works great as a meal prep recipe and a lazy night/don’t feel like seriously cooking recipe. I have made it with chicken thighs as well with great results.
Beans & Greens - infinitely flexible by varying your choice of legumes, liquid, greens, and seasonings
Spaghetti sauce or Sloppy Joe meat can be made in almost any quantity and is at least a few steps up from McDonalds
For more formal recipes, we enjoyed these two:
I don’t generally freeze the whole meal, only the most laborious steps that still freeze well. Such as:
- milanesa/schnitzel - you can bulk prepare them, deep-fry them, and freeze after they cooled down. Then when you want to use them just reheat on a pan.
- Bolognese sauce - scales well, freezes well, and damn versatile to use.
- cooked beans or chickpeas - bonus points if you mix random pork in either, and freeze it in individual portions.
- kibbeh - ideally frozen raw, to bake or deep-fry as needed, but you can do it with them already cooked too.
I don’t usually recommend to prep and freeze the staple carbohydrate. Two reasons: 1) it’s easy and fast to prepare it in situ, and 2) it gives you a bit more room for variation. For example you can serve the same Bolognese sauce over pasta, or polenta, or even in bread, for three different meals using the same ingredient.
This week I made about a gallon of ramen broth and the all fixin’s. I’m just throwing soba noodles at it. Very easy and it’s getting tastier as week goes on. I think I started with this recipe but liberties were made.
