With our chaotic and busy lives we barely have time to prepare and cook a meal and most of times we turn to unhealthy fast food or precooked supermarket foods. If you want to keep a healthier lifestyle for you and your family, on your free days you can chop the ingredients for different meals that you can put in the freezer and just take out when you come home and cook them for the next day. Awesome way to save time and get more organized, even in kitchen.
What you will have after? 14 crockpot freezer meals:
– 3 coconut curries;
– 4 barbeque chickens;
– 2 orange chickens;
– 2 hot and spicy peanut chickens;
– 3 man-pleasing chicken.
Use ziploc bags to put the ingredients inside then throw them in the freezer.
1. Coconut Chicken Curry
Ingredients: 3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, 2 chopped medium onions, 2 lbs chopped butternut squash, 8 minced garlic cloves, 1 oz fresh ginger, 2 tbsp curry powder, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, salt.
Cooking: Add the ingredients in a slow cooker together with 1 cup of coconut milk , cook on low all day and and half an hour before serving add a bag of frozen peas and another cup of coconut milk.
2. Barbeque Chicken
Ingredients: .5 lbs chicken, 2 cups sweet potatoes, 1 cup carrots, 2 cups onion, 2 cups red and green bell pepper, 3 cups zucchini, 2 cloves garlic, 2 tbsp flour, salt.
Cooking: Put the ingredients and one bottle of barbeque sauce in a slow cooker and cook for 6-8 hours.
3. Orange Chicken
Ingredients: 1 lb cubed boneless, skinless chicken breasts, 2 cups carrots, 2 cups bell peppers, 8 oz. orange juice concentrate, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 tsp salt, half tsp of pepper.
Cooking: Cook all the ingredients in a slow cooker between 4 and 6 hours.
4. Hot and Spicy Peanut Chicken
Ingredients: 2 lbs. cubed boneless, skinless chicken breast, 2 cups onions, 2 cups zucchini, 2 cups carrots, 1 red pepper, 1/2 tsp grated lime peel, 2 tbsp lime juice, 2 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 4 garlic gloves
Cooking: Put the ingredients in the slow cooker and cover with one cup of chicken broth and 3 tbsp of peanut butter. Cook on low for a few hours and in the last minutes add 1 bag of frozen peas and 1 can of coconut milk.
5. Man-pleasing Chicken
Ingredients: 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs, 2 cups green and red bell pepper, 1 cup carrots, 3 cups zucchini, 2 cups onion, 2 tbsp flour, 2 cloves garlic, salt.
Cooking: Put all the ingredients into a foil lined glass pan together with 3/4 cup of dijon mustard, 1/4 cup of maple syrup and 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar. Cook at 450 degrees F until the meat thermometer reaches 165 degrees and put fresh rosemary over when it is finished.
Photo courtesy: kojo-designs.
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